Re: Ethnologue
| From: | Jean-François Colson <bn130627@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 9, 2003, 21:54 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: Ethnologue
> En réponse à Jean-François Colson <bn130627@...>:
>
> >
> > Esperanto has a genitive indeed, but only for 5 words:
> > - ies, genitive of iu;
> > - kies, genitive of kiu;
> > - ties, genitive of tiu;
> > - cies, genitive of ciu;
> > - nenies, genitive of neniu.
> >
>
> True, but is it worth mentioning that Esperanto has a genitive for only
five
> words? :))
Yes, it is. I forgot "mia", "via", "lia", etc. which are genitives of "mi",
"vi", "li", etc.
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Jean-François Colson
jfcolson (a) belgacom.net
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