Re: No pronoun, no article
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 20, 2003, 3:55 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> And as for the suffix -tachi that is often translated as a
> plural, it means more exactly "and (the) others" (so you can use it after a
> proper name, for instance, to talk about that person and people usually
> associated with that person) and as such is not really a plural.
I would consider it a plural that has other functions.
At any rate, there is the archaic -ra used with pronouns, and certain
nouns have plural forms formed by reduplication, like hito -> hitobito
(person/people), shima -> shimajima (island(s)), etc.
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