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Re: languages without "to be"

• From: Burt Clawson <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: languages without "to be"
• Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 08:54:45 -0600
• References: <[email protected]>

Anthony Appleyard wrote:

>    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'.

  'ach lo'be'

- tuv'el pach puqloD

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