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While grammatically, English is Germanic, it did borrow a ton of vocabulary from French after the Norman invasion, so from a lexical perspective it's related to
by klipt 17y ago
While grammatically, English is Germanic, it did borrow a ton of vocabulary from French after the Norman invasion, so from a lexical perspective it's related to the romance languages by proxy.
- wheels 17y agoYes -- and it also inherited French-style plurals (blessedly), and I believe is the only Germanic language with a gerund.