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Verbs with non-initial stress (practically always the result of an unstressed inseparable prefix, or foreign words ending in stressed -ieren or -eien) do not have ge-added to the verb. verführen (er verführt) → verführt; miauen (er miaut) → miaut; probieren (er probiert) → probiert; prophezeien (er prophezeit) → prophezeit
The ending -e in the imperative singular is almost obligatorily lost in colloquial usage. In the standard language it may be lost or not: lieb! or liebe! , sag! or sage! The ending -e in the first-person singular of the present is always kept in normal written style ( ich liebe, ich sage ), but may also be lost in colloquial usage ( ich lieb ...
Pages in category "German words and phrases" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 395 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Yuen Ren Chao has described sentence-final particles as "phrase suffixes": just as a word suffix is in construction with the word preceding it, a sentence-final particle or phrase suffix is "in construction with a preceding phrase or sentence, though phonetically closely attached to the syllable immediately preceding it". [4]
This is a list of placeholder names (words that can refer to things, persons, places, numbers and other concepts whose names are temporarily forgotten, irrelevant, unknown or being deliberately withheld in the context in which they are being discussed) in various languages.
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-ico/-ica, words ending in -to and -tro (plato, "plate" → platico), commonly used in Antilles, Colombia and Venezuela for words ending in -to and -tro, but also common with any kind of nouns in Aragon or Murcia.
This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.