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  2. Indo-European copula - Wikipedia

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    In PIE, *h 1 es-was an athematic verb in -mi; that is, the first person singular was *h 1 esmi; this inflection survives in English am, Pashto yem, Persian am, Sanskrit asmi, Bengali first-person verb ending -ām, Old Church Slavonic esmĭ, etc. This verb is generally reconstructed for Proto-Indo-European thus: [1]

  3. Germanism (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In French, some Germanisms are due to the experiences in the Second World War, such as witz for a bad joke or threatening (in German, Witz is just joke) and ersatz for ersatz coffee (German Ersatzkaffee, but more usually Muckefuck, itself probably a Francesism from mocca faux), or as an adjective meaning make-believe, fall-back, i.e. (as in ...

  4. Germanic verbs - Wikipedia

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    The Germanic language family is one of the language groups that resulted from the breakup of Proto-Indo-European (PIE). It in turn divided into North, West and East Germanic groups, and ultimately produced a large group of mediaeval and modern languages, most importantly: Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish (North); English, Dutch and German (West); and Gothic (East, extinct).

  5. Verb - Wikipedia

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    Some verbs in English have historically derived forms that show change of valency in some causative verbs, such as fall-fell-fallen:fell-felled-felled; rise-rose-risen:raise-raised-raised; cost-cost-cost:cost-costed-costed. In valency marking languages, valency change is shown by inflecting the verb in order to change the valency.

  6. Ergative–absolutive alignment - Wikipedia

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    However, there are some intransitive verbs in Georgian that behave like transitive verbs, and therefore employ the ergative case in the past tense. Consider: K'acma daacemina. (კაცმა დააცემინა) "The man sneezed." Although the verb "sneeze" is clearly intransitive, it is conjugated like a transitive verb.

  7. Frantz (film) - Wikipedia

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    Frantz is a 2016 drama film directed and co-written by François Ozon and starring Paula Beer and Pierre Niney.It is about a young German woman whose fiancé has been killed in World War I and the French soldier who comes bearing a secret about her fiancé.

  8. In French Thriller Anatomy of a Fall, the Law Is No One's Friend

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  9. Bye Bye Germany - Wikipedia

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    German English: Bye Bye Germany (German: Es war einmal in Deutschland...) is a 2017 internationally co-produced comedy film directed by Sam Garbarski. [1] Cast.