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  2. Yes and no - Wikipedia

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    Yes contradicts a negatively formulated question, No affirms it; Yea affirms a positively formulated question, Nay contradicts it. Will they not go? — Yes, they will. Will they not go? — No, they will not. Will they go? — Yea, they will. Will they go? — Nay, they will not. This is illustrated by the following passage from Much Ado about ...

  3. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate is available in some web browsers as an optional downloadable extension that can run the translation engine, which allow right-click command access to the translation service. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] [ 39 ] In February 2010, Google Translate was integrated into the Google Chrome browser by default, for optional automatic webpage translation.

  4. Affirmation and negation - Wikipedia

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    Two examples of affirmation include (1) John is here already [4] and (2) I am a moral person. [5] These two sentences are truth statements, and serve as a representation of affirmation in English. The negated versions can be formed as the statements (1 NEG) John is not here already and (2 NEG) I am not a moral person. (1) a.

  5. Null-subject language - Wikipedia

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    The subject "(s)he" of the second sentence is only implied in Italian. English and French, on the other hand, require an explicit subject in this sentence.. Null-subject languages include Arabic, most Romance languages, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, the Indo-Aryan languages, Japanese, Korean, Persian, the Slavic languages, Tamil, and the Turkic languages.

  6. Spanish language - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 January 2025. Romance language "Castilian language" redirects here. For the specific variety of the language, see Castilian Spanish. For the broader branch of Ibero-Romance, see West Iberian languages. Spanish Castilian español castellano Pronunciation [espaˈɲol] ⓘ [kasteˈʝano ...

  7. Verb - Wikipedia

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    Weather verbs often appear to be impersonal (subjectless, or avalent) in null-subject languages like Spanish, where the verb llueve means "It rains". In English, French and German, they require a dummy pronoun and therefore formally have a valency of 1. As verbs in Spanish incorporate the subject as a TAM suffix, Spanish is not actually a null ...

  8. Totonac languages - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish language has donated “porque” (because) as seen in these examples: "nali:tʃi:yá:uw porque xa: tsex tu ɬawamá:ɬ. we are going to put you in prison because what you are doing is not good naikwayá:n porque iktsí:nksa. I'm going to eat you because I am hungry" [8]

  9. See a man about a dog - Wikipedia

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    The earliest confirmed publication is the 1866 Dion Boucicault play Flying Scud, [2] in which a character knowingly breezes past a difficult situation saying, "Excuse me Mr. Quail, I can't stop; I've got to see a man about a dog."