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Everplayer
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Message 9 of 22

24 November 2011 at 8:08pm | IP Logged

I believe many Asian languages such as Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Malay, Indonesia, etc. don't have verb conjugation(inflection) at all.
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vonPeterhof
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Message 10 of 22

24 November 2011 at 9:44pm | IP Logged

Everplayer wrote:

I believe many Asian languages such as Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Malay, Indonesia, etc. don't have verb conjugation(inflection) at all.

I cannot speak for all of these languages, but Japanese definitely has plenty of verb conjugation. It isn't inflected for person, gender or number, but the verb endings are quite numerous, displaying features like negativity, time, passivity, volition, conditionality and many others. However, the rules are fairly straightforward and there are only two or three verbs that are truly irregular.

Edit: Never mind, looks like I misread "Vietnamese" as "Japanese". No idea how that happened.

Edited by vonPeterhof on 24 November 2011 at 10:32pm
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RatoDePorão
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Message 11 of 22

24 November 2011 at 9:55pm | IP Logged

The other members have mentioned the most known cases already :(

Some uneducated people in Brazil NEARLY conjugated verbs the same way for everybody, which is a huge FAIL, the verb IR (TO GO), for example:

I - Eu vou
YOU - Tu vai (instead of Tu vais)
HE - Ele vai (correct)
WE - Nós vai (hahaha instead of Nós Vamos)
You pl - Vós....(I don't know how to conjugated it either, we never use this thing, it's not even taught in schools where I live, neither does TU, which is never used where I live)
They - Eles vai (ultra fail, Eles vão)

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Haldor
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Message 12 of 22

24 November 2011 at 10:48pm | IP Logged

Norwegian and Danish are pretty mush alike, but I suppose and hope you knew that by now...
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outcast
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Message 13 of 22

25 November 2011 at 2:17am | IP Logged

I can see you will never learn Spanish. :)

Full of rolling "R"s, and each person and tense has it's own ending (more than French), there are more persons to remember (Portuguese "voce" and "eles/elas" is the same), and Spanish uses more tenses than basically any other romance language alongside Portuguese (which in fact does not use in some dialects the future or conditional where Spanish still does, though they use the future subjunctive which is rare in Spanish).
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25 November 2011 at 7:53am | IP Logged

outcast wrote:

I can see you will never learn Spanish. :)

Full of rolling "R"s, and each person and tense has it's own ending (more than French),
there are more persons to remember (Portuguese "voce" and "eles/elas" is the same), and
Spanish uses more tenses than basically any other romance language alongside Portuguese
(which in fact does not use in some dialects the future or conditional where Spanish
still does, though they use the future subjunctive which is rare in Spanish).

Yes, Mandarin is certainly easier: no rolled R, no inflections. There are tones but
everyone can hear and pronounce tones.
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WentworthsGal
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25 November 2011 at 9:57am | IP Logged

Funnily enough, I have learnt Spanish before - not to a high standard but I intend on revisiting it again one day :o) I feel it's such a prominent language that I couldn't possibly leave it alone forever lol.
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psy88
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Message 16 of 22

26 November 2011 at 2:54am | IP Logged

[QUOTE=WentworthsGal] ...In the sense of the way their verbs are conjugated. I'm loving how the same endings are used for each person in Swedish e.g jag talar, du talar, vi talar etc. And curiosity has again gotten the best of me and I'm wondering what other languages (if any) have just one ending for each person... It's such a nice change from having to learn several for each verb, altho I feel I should stress that I'm not going to dismiss any language purely because they do have different endings.[/QUOTE

Thanks for the post. I cannot answer your question but I am thanking you because I just learned something about Swedish that I did not know before. I am curious about Swedish and am considering it as a possible third target language at some future point. No conjugating makes it more attractive.
P.S.I feel like I always learn something every time I visit this forum.

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