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  2. Cognate object - Wikipedia

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    More specifically, the verb is one that is ordinarily intransitive (lacking any object), and the cognate object is simply the verb's noun form. For example, in the sentence He slept a troubled sleep, sleep is the cognate object of the verb slept. This construction also has a passive form. The passive is A troubled sleep was slept by him.

  3. Cognate - Wikipedia

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    For example, Old French boef is cognate with English cow, so English cow and beef are doublets. Translations , or semantic equivalents, are words in two different languages that have similar or practically identical meanings.

  4. Copula (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    An example is the sentence "I saw twelve men, each a soldier." ... for example, the English form is is a cognate of German ist, ... Perfect ♂ huā: hue: ♀ huī ...

  5. Comparative method - Wikipedia

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    The next step involves determining the regular sound-correspondences exhibited by the lists of potential cognates. For example, in the Polynesian data above, it is apparent that words that contain t in most of the languages listed have cognates in Hawaiian with k in the same position. That is visible in multiple cognate sets: the words glossed ...

  6. Indo-European vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    A Middle Irish cognate is given when the Old Irish form is unknown, and Gaulish, Cornish and/or Breton (modern) cognates may occasionally be given in place of or in addition to Welsh. For the Baltic languages, Lithuanian (modern) and Old Prussian cognates are given when possible. (Both Lithuanian and Old Prussian are included because Lithuanian ...

  7. Comparison (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    The comparative uses the word "mai" before the adjective, which operates like "more" or "-er" in English. For example: luminos → bright, mai luminos → brighter. To weaken the adjective, the word "puțin" (little) is added between "mai" and the adjective, for example mai puțin luminos → less bright. For absolute superlatives, the gender ...

  8. Intransitive verb - Wikipedia

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    For example, there are two forms of the verb "to start": (7) 会議が始まる。 (Kaigi ga hajimaru., "The meeting starts.") (8) 会長が会議を始める。 (Kaichō ga kaigi o hajimeru., "The president starts the meeting.") In Japanese, the form of the verb indicates the number of arguments the sentence needs to have. [2]

  9. False cognate - Wikipedia

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    For example, the Hebrew word דַּל dal ("poor") (which is a false cognate of the phono-semantically similar English word dull) is used in the new Israeli Hebrew expression אין רגע דל en rega dal (literally "There is no poor moment") as a phono-semantic matching for the English expression Never a dull moment. [21]

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