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Re: Strong/weak verbs, expanded infinitives and applicatives

From:Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 9, 2005, 19:36
Hallo!

taliesin the storyteller wrote:

> * tomhchappell said on 2005-08-08 21:36:39 +0200 > > True or false; > > Strong conjugation vs weak conjugation, for verbs, > > is like > > broken plurals vs sound plurals, for nouns. > > What are broken and sound plurals? Some English phenomenon? Arabic?
Arabic. Sound plurals are plurals formed with some kind of plural suffix, while the less common broken plurals change the word's vowels, or something like that. Don't ask me for details; I am no expert on this. Greetings, Jörg.

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