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Re: Some weird verbs in Ayeri

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Monday, October 15, 2007, 12:56
Hi!

Carsten Becker writes:
> Good morning Henrik, > > On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 01:54:21 +0200, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> > wrote: > > >'gerne' is an adverb in German and 'to like' is an auxiliary in > >English. So in a) you conjugate 'to swim' while in b) you conjugate > >'to like'. > > > >Is this satisfactory? > > I think so. Though note that adverbs usually go after verbs. ...
You could have two types of adverbs, I suppose that's ok, and I also suppose those that follow the verb cannot be used as a full verb? (And you said yourself, French has some adjectives that behave differently from the other adjectives.) I wonder whether Tatari Faran has two types of adverbs, when, as Eric said, one type is called 'adverb of manner'. **Henrik