Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Spanish was one of the official languages in the Philippines in Southeast Asia until 1973. In the 1987 constitution, Spanish was removed as an official language (replaced by English), and was listed as an optional/voluntary language along with Arabic. It is currently spoken by a minority and taught in the school curriculum.
[58] [59] It does not have a security thread, and uses the design and plates originally intended for the $5,000 note described in May 2020. [60] The new $2,000 note was put into circulation on 22 May 2023. [61] On 11 January 2024, the Central Bank announced that it would issue 10,000-peso and 20,000-peso notes by June 2024.
A translation is an assemblage of words, and as such it can contain as much or as little poetry as any other such assemblage. The Japanese even have a word (chÅyaku, roughly "hypertranslation") to designate a version that deliberately improves on the original. [121]
English adjectives are words such as good, big, interesting, and Canadian that most typically modify nouns, denoting characteristics of their referents (e.g., a red car). As modifiers, they come before the nouns they modify and after determiners. [195] English adjectives also function as predicative complements (e.g., the child is happy).
In physics, gravity (from Latin gravitas 'weight' [1]) is a fundamental interaction primarily observed as a mutual attraction between all things that have mass.Gravity is, by far, the weakest of the four fundamental interactions, approximately 10 38 times weaker than the strong interaction, 10 36 times weaker than the electromagnetic force, and 10 29 times weaker than the weak interaction.
For example, the following words end in a vowel sound: pied, aller, les, finit, beaux. The same words followed by a vowel, however, may sound the consonants, as they do in these examples: beaux-arts, les amis, pied-à-terre. French writing, as with any language, is affected by the spoken language. In Old French, the plural for animal was animals.
20th-century transitions to liberal democracy have come in successive "waves of democracy", variously resulting from wars, revolutions, decolonisation, and religious and economic circumstances. [11] Global waves of "democratic regression" reversing democratization, have also occurred in the 1920s and 30s, in the 1960s and 1970s, and in the 2010s.
Quran says, "We have sent down the Quran in truth, and with the truth it has come down" [204] and frequently asserts in its text that it is divinely ordained. [205] The Quran speaks of a written pre-text that records God's speech before it is sent down, the "preserved tablet" that is the basis of the belief in fate also, and Muslims believe ...