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Post by Nicola Damiana Aseria on Jul 17, 2007 20:34:34 GMT -6
How do you pluralize words? Specifically, forâ?
And I was trying to translate participles (verbs ending in -ing) but none were found. I found them as infinitives or as just regular verbs (whatever the word for that is), but I was wondering if there was some formula for making them participles, like how we drop the E and add -ing in English. I tried looking at some of the suffixes but couldn't find it.
Anyone know?
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Sir C. M. Siervicül
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Post by Sir C. M. Siervicül on Jul 18, 2007 8:36:35 GMT -6
How do you pluralize words? Specifically, forâ? There are several different ways to pluralise Talossan words. The biggest category (which includes forâ) is words that simply add an s (forâs). There are eight other "regular" types of plurals, plus seven nouns with irregular plural forms, but a proposal to simplify this slightly is currently under discussion (look at the thread in this forum about morphological reforms. Hopefully we'll have more detailed grammatical information on the web site within the next several weeks. El Glheþinéir can provide present participles. For regular verbs, you just drop the infinitive ending (-ar) and add -înd. But the present participle isn't used as much in Talossan as in English, mainly because Talossan doesn't have a present progressive verb form ("I am walking"). You'd just say "I walk" instead. The present participle is commonly used as an adjective, for example "las fuglâs volînds" ("the flying birds"). Note the agreement in number with the noun, although the present participle does not inflect for gender.
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Post by Nicola Damiana Aseria on Jul 18, 2007 9:19:04 GMT -6
Thanks. I did notice that the translator could specify present participles, and I assumed that was because it could translate some. My problem was that it didn't seem to know the ones I was trying to translate. I did start using the "I walk" form instead of the "I am walking" form, but I was curious about the way to switch between/what the grammar rule was.
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Sir C. M. Siervicül
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Post by Sir C. M. Siervicül on Jul 18, 2007 10:10:02 GMT -6
I get what you're saying. When you search El Glheþinéir you have to input the infinitive form of English verbs (without the "to," like "walk") even if what you're looking for is the past participle ("walked") or present participle ("walking").
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Post by Nicola Damiana Aseria on Jul 18, 2007 14:11:40 GMT -6
Oh, OK. Thanks.
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