Activity for Moshi
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| Edit | Post #287685 |
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| Edit | Post #287685 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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Why is the third person singular conjugation different in the past tense? 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, arbeitet | | wir | -en | sagen, arbeiten | | ihr | -(e)t | sagt, arbeitet | | sie (Plural) ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #286735 | Nominated for promotion | — | over 1 year ago |
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| Edit | Post #287270 | Nominated for promotion | — | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287281 |
You're right, I shouldn't have phrased it so strongly, I just meant that I never hear it where I live and so am unused to the construction. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #287281 |
In American English, you wouldn't say "Microsoft have never said they have extended the free period.", it is always singular, "Microsoft has ...". This might be one of the reasons the construct seems exceptional to me, since I'm an American speaker.
That said, the main point sounds right. I found ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #287270 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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Plural agreement with a syntactically singular subject 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, "There are a lot of people", with the plural form of the verb "are", seems just as grammatical as "There i... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285711 | Nominated for promotion | — | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #286553 | Nominated for promotion | — | over 1 year ago |
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| Edit | Post #286735 | Nominated for promotion | — | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #279224 |
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| Edit | Post #277534 | Nominated for promotion | — | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #279224 |
I've added it to an "Other" section (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279224 |
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| Edit | Post #286735 | Nominated for promotion | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286796 | Nominated for promotion | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279224 |
A Japanese learning server I'm in has compiled another, very comprehensive list of items: https://github.com/EngJpDiscordExchange/Awesome-Japanese/blob/master/readme.md
It might be worth adding these resources here too. It's quite large though, and I'm wondering if it wouldn't be better to split i... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279224 | Nominated for promotion | — | almost 2 years ago |
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| Edit | Post #286539 | Nominated for promotion | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286620 |
@#53566 Please refrain from saying things like "Did you try to Google, before posting?" It serves no purpose other than to insult and antagonize questioners, which violates our "Be Nice" policy. As a moderator, this is an informal first warning.
Instead, it is more helpful to simply say "Here is s... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286735 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
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Possessive vs accusative case for nominalized clauses Consider the following sentences: 1. "She was against his joining the team." 2. "She was against his joining of the team." 3. "She was against him joining the team." Instinctively, the first just sounds wrong to me. Thinking deeper about it though, I can't tell why it sounds wrong to me; "joi... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286610 |
@#53696 Users are free to post wherever they want; if you want to ask there, then you're free to do so.
(As it is, I don't think this is a language-learning question) (more) |
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| Edit | Post #286704 | Nominated for promotion | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286653 | Nominated for promotion | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277059 |
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| Edit | Post #286410 |
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| Comment | Post #286410 |
With four votes in favor and none against, I have created and enabled this reaction in the community. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277059 |
Post edited: Update |
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| Edit | Post #286620 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
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Why "me too" and not "I too"? 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 languages gives me the impression that this formation is common in those. (Dutch: "Ik ook", Swedish: "Jag också... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #286610 |
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| Edit | Post #286591 | Nominated for promotion | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286553 |
More generally, the pattern seems to be `*kw-` (interrogative), `*k-` (proximal, this), and `*s-`/`*t-` (medial, that, animate and inanimate respectively) e.g
[where: from `*kwo`](https://www.etymonline.com/word/where)
[here: from `*ki` + `r`](https://www.etymonline.com/word/here)
[there: f... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286553 |
I see, that makes sense. I was somewhat under the impression that since all of the forms that I found were basically unchanged in spelling except for the initials, that this would be the case for the others as well, though I see now that my impression was flawed.
As it is, it does seem to be the c... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |