Re: USAGE: 'born'
From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, May 8, 2001, 6:30 |
In a message dated 5/7/01 10:46:22 PM, alrivera@SOUTHERN.EDU writes:
<< There isn't a proper one in English. But I know the passive form
<morirse> of
<morir> is perfectly allowable in Spanish. >>
That's not a passive, it's a reflexive, and it doesn't really mean
that... Of course, I have no linguistic background in Spanish, just a spoken
background, and that just kind of means "to die". I don't know what the
difference is, exactly.
-David