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daegaer
In Estonian nouns and pronouns do not have grammatical gender, but nouns and adjectives decline in fourteen cases
(swoons from rapture)
'illative, inessive, elative, allative, adessive, ablative, translative, terminative, essive, abessive, and comitative' ought to be a Tom Lehrer song. It scans if you pronounce the words as if they were Japanese.
( Cut for medieval legal Latin )
Mind, that webpage is misleading. The entry on Japanese grammar is very short and says "The good news is that Japanese has none of the following: gender, declensions or plurals. Nouns never conjugate and almost all verbs are regular." The bad news is that there can be two, three or four different verbs or verb forms for the same activity, depending on who you're talking to, and you have to grow up there to know which one to use.
ETA Which then segues into Complaints Choirs on Youtube.
( Cut for a litany of complaints )
daegaerIn Estonian nouns and pronouns do not have grammatical gender, but nouns and adjectives decline in fourteen cases
(swoons from rapture)
'illative, inessive, elative, allative, adessive, ablative, translative, terminative, essive, abessive, and comitative' ought to be a Tom Lehrer song. It scans if you pronounce the words as if they were Japanese.
( Cut for medieval legal Latin )
Mind, that webpage is misleading. The entry on Japanese grammar is very short and says "The good news is that Japanese has none of the following: gender, declensions or plurals. Nouns never conjugate and almost all verbs are regular." The bad news is that there can be two, three or four different verbs or verb forms for the same activity, depending on who you're talking to, and you have to grow up there to know which one to use.
ETA Which then segues into Complaints Choirs on Youtube.
( Cut for a litany of complaints )
