Re: Ethnologue
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 9, 2003, 22:06 |
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"Jean-François Colson" wrote:
> > 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.
Those are technically adjectives. And at any rate, if we're going to
count things that are limited to only a very small number of words, then
English has 3 cases (subjective, genitive, objective), Spanish has four
(nominative, genitive, dative [only in 3rd person; le/les, and not a
rigid distinction, either], accusative), French has four (well, assuming
you count je, etc. as words rather than verbal prefixes)
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