Re: Using numberless substantives

fflores@arnet.com.ar writes:
>Well, many natlangs use numberless nouns (AFAIK Japanese,
>Chinese, and I think most Asian languages). If they have
>to specify a quantity they say "one" or "many" or whatever;
>if not, they leave the noun alone.

this is true. Tagalog and other Philippine languages use a plural particle
to make plurals. For instance, "mansanas" means apple (when i bring this
up to Spanish speaking friends they can't believe that it just means apple
=) ) . To make "apples" you use mga (/maNa/). So, that would be "mga
mansanas". The noun isn't even touched at all.




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