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A quick search gives a regular pattern in the form of trisyllabic laxing Trisyllabic laxing, or trisyllabic shortening, is any of three processes in English in which tense vowels (long vowels or d...

posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

What arguments are used to answer this question? Does it stem from a lack of agreement over how to define a pronoun? Essentially, yes. Even your own Wikipedia quote has the infamous [citation ...

posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Jirka Hanika‭

I've been studying German lately, and came across something that sparked my curiosity: The way to say "me too" in German is "ich auch" - that is, "I too". A shallow glance at other Germanic languag...

1 answer  ·  posted 12mo ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 12mo ago by Jirka Hanika‭

tl;dr, English just borrowed other languages' suffixes I shouldn't really come as too much of a surprise to know that the irregularity comes from borrowing endings from multiple different language...

posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Moshi‭

It's built just like the normal present perfect. I have had it. Have you had it?

posted 2y ago by Moshi‭

I recently stumbled upon this wikipedia page and it got me thinking. Take a look at the following table (terms are lifted from the Wikipedia page) W (interrogative) H (proximal) T (medial)...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Moshi‭

Generally speaking, German verbs inflect with the following table Person Inflection Example ich -e sage, arbeite du -(e)st sagst, arbeitest er/sie/es -(e)t sagt, a...

1 answer  ·  posted 5mo ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Jirka Hanika‭

As far as my knowledge of Japanese goes, there are two ways to form polite negative forms of verbs, the direct conjugation ～ません and the plain negative conjugation ～ない with です added. Take for insta...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Moshi‭

After researching a bit more, I found this StackExchange answer. Their answer is very informative, and includes a partial translation of a Japanese research paper (which I'm sadly not at the level ...

posted 2y ago by Moshi‭

The final forms of ‭ך, ן, ף, and ץ are the original forms. From a Quora answer to What's the origin of the final (sofit) forms for some of the Hebrew alphabet? Four of the five “sofit” letters ...

posted 2y ago by Moshi‭

This has been implemented [Citation needed] As a more academically focused site, it might be useful to mark answers as lacking sufficient citations to back the answer up authoritatively. This g...

posted 1y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 12mo ago by fedorqui‭

Consider the following sentences: "She was against his joining the team." "She was against his joining of the team." "She was against him joining the team." Instinctively, the first just so...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by Moshi‭

Many quantity words trigger agreement with their object rather than themselves. For instance, syntactically, "a lot, "a bunch", "an amount" seem to all be singular. However, as a native speaker, "T...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Jirka Hanika‭

I nominate Jirka Hanika, because they're (relatively) active and have good answers here.

posted 2y ago by Moshi‭

While learning a language, there are a surprising (to me at least) number of people who say that you should never output until fluent - that is, as long as you get enough input, you will eventually...

1 answer  ·  posted 13d ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 8d ago by Jirka Hanika‭