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If you can negate a verb regarding action, what about a presumed statement of fact. Are there still equivalents of 'true' and 'false'?
by a9h74j 4y ago
If you can negate a verb regarding action, what about a presumed statement of fact. Are there still equivalents of 'true' and 'false'?
- bobthepanda 4y agothe verbs "to be" and "to have" are used to make affirmative statements so you would just negate those, which is also valid English. e.g. "Is he coming to the meeting?", instead of "Yes/No", you would basically say "They are/They are not" (Chinese also doesn't really distinguish "him/her" for third person pronouns)
- Rebelgecko 4y agoThat's how a lot of older Latin does it. For example if the question is "Did you go to the forum today?", the questionee might respond "I did not go to the forum today" (or something more concise like "I didn't go", or if they were being super informal just say the equivalent of "didn't")