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Re: adverbs



>  >>...when you look up /naDev/ in the
>>>dictionary, you're going to find "(n)," not "(adv)."
>
>ja' "Stephan Schneider" <[email protected]>:
>>the german dictionairy doesn't use "(n)". likely, when there is no
>>comment, it's intended that it's a noun.
>
>It took me a while to figure out how the German version of TKD indicates
>parts of speech.  Neither verbs nor nouns are marked explicitly, but in
>German, *all* nouns are proper nouns, with the first letter capitalized.
>
>-- ghunchu'wI'

err, yes. that makes it possible to distinguish between nouns and 
verbs. (what's the emoticon for "i'm ashamed"?)

tulwI',
sts.


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