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  2. Verb–subject–object word order - Wikipedia

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    Many languages, such as Greek, have relatively free word order, where VSO is one of many possible orders. Other languages, such as Spanish and Romanian, allow rather free subject-verb inversion. However, the most basic, common, and unmarked form in these languages is SVO, so they are classified as SVO languages.

  3. Inshallah - Wikipedia

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    It is the synonym of the Tagalog word nawa. In Turkish, the word inşallah or inşaallah is similarly used to mean "If God wishes and grants", or more generally "hopefully", but is also used in an ironic context when the speaker does not put too much faith in something. In Urdu, the word is used with the meaning "God willing".

  4. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    There is one count that puts the English vocabulary at about 1 million words—but that count presumably includes words such as Latin species names, prefixed and suffixed words, scientific terminology, jargon, foreign words of extremely limited English use and technical acronyms. [43] [44] [45] Urdu: 264,000

  5. Subject–object–verb word order - Wikipedia

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    Tamil being a strongly head-final language, the basic word-order is SOV. However, since it is highly inflected, word order is flexible and is used for pragmatic purposes. That is, fronting a word in a sentence adds emphasis on it; for instance, a VSO order would indicate greater emphasis on the verb, the action, than on the subject or the object.

  6. List of English words of Spanish origin - Wikipedia

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    from Spanish dengue meaning "fever", from Swahili dinga, "seizure" derecho from Spanish derecho meaning "straight" or "masculine of right side" < latin directum, a widespread and long-lived convection-induced straight-line windstorm descamisado from Spanish descamisado, "without a shirt" < camisa "shirt" < celtic kamisia. desperado

  7. Word order - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, word order (also known as linear order) is the order of the syntactic constituents of a language. Word order typology studies it from a cross-linguistic perspective, and examines how languages employ different orders. Correlations between orders found in different syntactic sub-domains are also of interest.

  8. para que puedan sobrevivir - so they can survive; para que yo nos ayude a entender - so that I can help us understand; para todos ustedes - for all of you; parentesco - relationship/kinship; paridad - parity; parrilla - barbecue/grill; parpadear - to blink; parsimonia - parsimony; partela - split it; parvularia - kindergarten; pasadizos ...

  9. Influence of Arabic on other languages - Wikipedia

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    These Arabic words have been imported and lexicalized in Persian. So, for instance, the Arabic plural form for kitāb (كتاب) ["book"] is kutub (كتب) obtained by the root derivation system. In Persian, the plural for the lexical word ketâb is obtained by simply adding the Persian plural morpheme hā: ketāb+hā → ketābhā (كتاب ...