Re: Italian Particles
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 16, 2000, 18:49 |
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Irina Rempt wrote:
> (quoting from Doug, because I accidentally zapped Nik's message)
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> > >> Nik wrote:
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> > > (BTW, is Dutch 'julle' a contraction of *jou alle(n)?)
Actually, that was Mangiat who asked that.
> No, an offshoot of "jelui" meaning "you people". It's "jullie", by
> the way.
Interesting. Did the original 2nd person plural pronoun become singular
as in English or what?
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