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For some reason part participles are particularly hard for me too (native English speaker who speaks no other languages fluently). (they must just be a mess in
by jrochkind1 2y ago
For some reason part participles are particularly hard for me too (native English speaker who speaks no other languages fluently). (they must just be a mess in English? I can't imagine how non-native speakers ever get any of them)
I'm going to go with swutcheted
- cyberax 2y agoEnglish verbs are pretty tame compared to Slavic verbs that can be modified with all kinds of perfective prefixes. On the other hand, Chinese verbs are even easier. They don't even have a tense!
- eynsham 2y agoI wouldn’t say that Chinese verbs have no tense so much as that they are uninflected and that tense is marked with particles (which admittedly do not cause difficulties with irregular infexions).
- cyberax 2y agoChinese technically does not have grammar tenses, but it has aspects indicated by particles. They mark the completion status, direction, presence, and so on. However, the verbs themselves don't have tense. So these sentences can be identical: "I will walk home, then I will eat a cake" and "I walked home, then I ate a cake". The overall timeframe can be given by a larger context: "Once my shift is over, I ..." / "I drank too much yesterday, that's all I remember: ". It's simply not possible in English because every verb has a grammar tense built into it.
- jjtheblunt 2y agoFor entertainment look up Germanic string and weak verbs.
- jjtheblunt 2y agoautocorrect unspelling above: string -> strong ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_strong_verb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_strong_verb )