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Re: Active and Passive please help.

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 18, 2001, 9:03
Joe Hill wrote:
:17:21 -0000
> >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Almaran Dungeonmaster" <dungeonmaster@...> >To: <CONLANG@...> >Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 8:17 PM >Subject: Re: Active and Passive please help. > > > > Joe Hill wrote > > > > > My language has no passive sentences. I can't seem to translate it >was > > called into and active sentence... > > > > Do you mean you want to convert the phrase "it was called" into an >active > > phrase? It might be a little hard, since "to be called" in the current > > meaning is inherently passive in English. However, other languages have >an > > active verb for naming things. > > > > E.g. in dutch, we use the verb "heten" to name things. > > > > "Ik heet Maarten"= "I am called Maarten" > > > > So all you have to do is invent a transitive verb in your language that > > means "being named". > > > > Maarten > > >No, but I can make one... > >silly thinking in English...
BTW, what happened to the English cognate of Dutch "heten", German "heissen", Swedish "heta" etc? I remember finding it increadible that English lacks a verb of this meaning when I learnt it. Andreas _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com

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