Re: noun forms of verbs
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 18, 2001, 6:43 |
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In a message dated 17.11.2001 05:46:31 PM, fuzzybluemonkeys@YAHOO.COM writes:
>would it be valid to say that "food" is a noun form of
>the verb "to eat"?
Mandarin [Guoyu/Putonghua] uses V-O constructions, i.e.
literally: English Translation:
_chrrr.fan_ "eat-food" EAT, DEVOUR, etc.
_shwoo.hwa_ "speak-words" TALK, CHATTER,etc.
_swye.dz_ "write-characters" WRITE, etc.
_yu.how_ "joy-good" Feel Good
_yue_ also means "music"!!!!
(to all Sinophiles: excuse my bad, sloppy Romanization of Guoyu... :)
czHANg humours NOT marked or dyed til further melancolic testing
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