Re: Sensible passives (was: confession: roots)
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 8, 2001, 18:31 |
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On Tue, 8 May 2001 18:50:58 +0000 Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
writes:
> >and thus would not
> >*need* a passive. What's the passive of "die"? :-)
> In a sensible language like Latin "to die" is passive :-)
> Ray.
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Hey, are you calling Rokbeigalmki not a sensible language? :-P
At least Gabwe is sensible, then :-)
"he/she/it dies" in Gabwe is:
_Dá-kért_, with "da" in the object place.
_kért-Dá_, with "da" in the subject place, on the other hand, means
"he/she/it kills"
-Stephen (Steg)
"Lympyyzh dy sangry? Lympyyzh dy dt!"
~ unofficial national motto of "Mueva Sefarad" (Mueva Sefará?)
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