Re: EXERCISE: Meanings of to be
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 3, 2002, 17:57 |
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On 2 Jul 02, at 15:30, Jake X wrote:
> 1. forming predicate nominative: He IS happy
> 2. equivalence: Today is Wednesday.
> 3. existance: To be, or not to be.
> 5. Numerical equivalence: One plus one is two.
These are all "esan" in Verdurian ("to be"). It's a fairly IE language
:)
> 4. English use, for creating verb forms: He is walking.
Verdurian uses an adverb for this: sicha.
Cheers,
Philip
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