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y devoices to x, or to z when preceded by /s/ (i.e. z or ce, ci) in the same word nā-yi "I do — ō-nāx "I did" tla-ce-li-ya "plants are in bud, spring is arriving" — tla-ce-liz "plants were in bud" t debuccalizes to h. This alternation does not affect all instances of syllable-final t and is sensitive to stem choice and position in the word.
A statement such as that predicate P is satisfied by arbitrarily large values, can be expressed in more formal notation by ∀x : ∃y ≥ x : P(y). See also frequently. The statement that quantity f(x) depending on x "can be made" arbitrarily large, corresponds to ∀y : ∃x : f(x) ≥ y. arbitrary A shorthand for the universal quantifier. An ...
The suffixes are as follows: -or in the 1st declension (e.g. flicka – flickor), -ar in the 2nd (e.g. bil – bilar), -er in the 3rd (e.g. katt – katter), -n in the 4th (e.g. äpple – äpplen) and no inflectional suffix is added for the nouns in the 5th declension (e.g. bord – bord). Verbs in Swedish do not distinguish singular from ...
ad – adjoint representation (or adjoint action) of a Lie group. adj – adjugate of a matrix. a.e. – almost everywhere. AFSOC - Assume for the sake of contradiction; Ai – Airy function. AL – Action limit. Alt – alternating group (Alt(n) is also written as A n.) A.M. – arithmetic mean. AP – arithmetic progression. arccos ...
The historical plural ending for adjectives is -i. However, in late Quenya, adjectives ending in - a instead have this - a replaced by - ë . Moreover, the adjective laurëa ("golden") there has the plural form laurië (in laurië lantar lassi , literary "golden fall (the) leaves", which in singular would have been *'laurëa lanta lassë ...
Also hendiaduo and figure of twins. A figure of speech, used for emphasis, in which a single idea is expressed by means of two substantives joined by the conjunction "and" (e.g. by two nouns, as with "house and home" or "law and order"), rather than by a noun qualified by an adjective; the substitution of a conjunction for a subordination ...
Noun class 1 refers to mass nouns, collective nouns, and abstract nouns. examples: вода 'water', любовь 'love' Noun class 2 refers to items with which the eye can focus on and must be non-active examples: дом 'house', школа 'school' Noun class 3 refers to non-humans that are active. examples: рыба 'fish', чайка 'seagull'
Third-declension nouns have one, two, or three stems, unlike first- and second-declension nouns, which always have only one stem. Each stem is used in different case-and-number forms. In nouns with two stems, the stem with the long vowel is called the strong stem, while the stem with the short vowel is called the weak stem.