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In English it's not based on context, it's based on word order. Declension is a cool concept but it's far more confusing to foreigners because word order basica
by HideousKojima 6y ago
In English it's not based on context, it's based on word order. Declension is a cool concept but it's far more confusing to foreigners because word order basically doesn't matter.
For example in Czech:
Jan zabil Petra
Jan Petra zabil
Petra Jan zabil
Petra zabil Jan
Zabil Petra Jan
and
Zabil Jan Petra
are all equivalent to the English "John killed Peter." Change Jan to Jana and Petra to Petr and all 6 of those become "Peter killed John." Even more confusing to a foreigner learning it is that Petra and Jana are the feminine forms of those names in the nominative case.