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languages without "to be"

• From: "Anthony Appleyard" <[email protected]>
• Subject: languages without "to be"
• Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 09:53:15 GMT
• Organization: Materials Science Centre
• Priority: normal

   ghItlh urt Clawson <[email protected]>:-
> Many languages don't use "to be" (The only example I can think of right now
> is Russian, which doesn't use "to be" in the present tense: Ya glupi, "I am
> foolish," Ya bolshoi, "I am large.")

  lughchu'be'. "is, are" jatlh {yest' (ECT6) } Russia Hol mu'.

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