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  2. Near future (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    Similarly to English, the French verb aller (to go) can be used as an auxiliary verb to create a near-future tense (le futur proche). Whereas English uses the continuous aspect (to be going), French uses the simple present tense; for example, the English sentence "I am going to do it tomorrow" would in French be « Je vais le faire demain

  3. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    If separating words using spaces is also permitted, the total number of known possible meanings rises to 58. [38] Czech has the syllabic consonants [r] and [l], which can stand in for vowels. A well-known example of a sentence that does not contain a vowel is Strč prst skrz krk, meaning "stick your finger through the neck."

  4. French conjugation - Wikipedia

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    When the second-person singular form of the imperative is followed by its object y or en, a final s is added: « Parles-en ! », , "Talk about it!" Irregular verbs: envoyer is an irregular in the future and conditional stem - j'enverr-ai etc, j'enverr-ais etc. Similarly: renvoyer "resend" aller, though it ends in -er, belongs to the third group.

  5. Going-to future - Wikipedia

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    Similarly to English, the French verb aller ("to go") can be used as an auxiliary verb to create a near-future tense (le futur proche). [17] For example, the English sentence "I am going to do it tomorrow" can be translated by Je vais le faire demain (literally "I go it to do tomorrow"; French does not have a distinct present progressive form ...

  6. Auxiliary verb - Wikipedia

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    An auxiliary verb (abbreviated aux) is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect, modality, voice, emphasis, etc. Auxiliary verbs usually accompany an infinitive verb or a participle, which respectively provide the main semantic content of the clause. [1]

  7. Agreement (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    ka tama-ŋɔ river-prox. in- ka this ka tama- ā -ŋɔ river-pl-prox. in- ka - ā these ka tama-ŋɔ in- ka / ka tama- ā -ŋɔ in- ka - ā river-prox. this / river-pl-prox. these In this example, what is copied is not a prefix, but rather the initial syllable of the head "river". By language Languages can have no conventional agreement whatsoever, as in Japanese or Malay ; barely any, as in ...

  8. Allez-Vous-En - Wikipedia

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    The phrase Allez-vous-en is a French phrase meaning Go away directed to one or more persons with whom one is not familiar. Its more familiar translation is va t´en (informal). The phrases are formed using the reflexive conjugated form of the verb aller which means to go, and the object pronoun en.

  9. Nonfinite verb - Wikipedia

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    Infinitives (e.g., to go, to see) - They often function as nouns or the base form of a verb; Gerunds (e.g., going, seeing) - These act as nouns but are derived from verbs; Participles (e.g., going, seen) - These can function as adjectives or part of verb tenses (like has gone)