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The lack of number on "you" can indeed be rather confusing. The lack of case is fine. Unless the sentence is specifically constructed to be ambiguous, I've neve
by hn_go_brrrrr 5y ago
The lack of number on "you" can indeed be rather confusing. The lack of case is fine. Unless the sentence is specifically constructed to be ambiguous, I've never missed cases in English.
- pezezin 5y agoEnglish pronouns definitely have case, e.g. I/me/my/mine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_personal_pronouns#Basic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_personal_pronouns#Basi...
- hn_go_brrrrr 5y agoThey have distinct forms for some of the cases. There are many that are indistinguishable.
- pezezin 5y agoThat happens in any language with declensions. I mean, look at a table of Latin declensions, and depending of the declension and number, some cases have different endings, some cases don't. Anyway, it's interesting that in the European languages that lost grammatical case, the pronouns are only words that keep them.