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That and ... In all languages, regular verb conjugations are taught with some example, typically the simplest regular verb you can think of. It's "cantar" in S
by murbard2 11y ago
That and ...
In all languages, regular verb conjugations are taught with some example, typically the simplest regular verb you can think of. It's "cantar" in Spanish, "to sing", it's often "parler" in French, "to talk", "amare" and "vocare" (to love, to call) are common in Latin.
In Greek, it's "λύω" (I untie), because yes, that's how common regular verbs are.
- madaxe_again 11y agoUntie, eh? It was "loose" when we learned, but yeah, precisely that. I wish that they'd involved us in it - explained the wonder of a language so ancient, so close to PIE, the tie of language to thought and semantic linking - but it was utilitarian. Latin was better as they intermingled it with roman history, but it was almost like they wanted Greek to be miserable. Our texts were printed in the 19th century - little leather bound books covered in notes on translation... In Latin. My school was such a time warp.