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  2. Subject (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    yesterday wurde was nur only geschlafen. slept Gestern wurde nur geschlafen. yesterday was only slept 'Everybody slept yesterday.' The word gestern 'yesterday' is generally construed as an adverb, which means it cannot be taken as the subject in this sentence. Certain verbs in German also require a dative or accusative object instead of a nominative subject, e.g. Mir me- DAT graut is uneasy ...

  3. Vietnamese grammar - Wikipedia

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    all TOTALITY hai two QUANTIFIER cuốn CLF book CLASSIFIER từ điển dictionary HEAD NOUN Việt Anh Vietnamese-English ATTRIBUTIVE NOUN PHRASE này PROX. DEM DEMONSTRATIVE của [nó] of [3. PN] PREP PHRASE cả hai cuốn {từ điển} {Việt Anh} này {của [nó]} all two CLF book dictionary Vietnamese-English PROX.DEM {of [3.PN]} TOTALITY QUANTIFIER CLASSIFIER HEAD NOUN ATTRIBUTIVE ...

  4. Vietnamese morphology - Wikipedia

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    Most words are created by either compounding or reduplicative derivation. Affixation is a relatively minor derivational process. Older styles of Vietnamese writing wrote polysyllabic words with hyphens separating the syllables, as in cào-cào "grasshopper", sinh-vật-học "biology", or cà-phê "coffee".

  5. History of writing in Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    Chữ Hoa or tiếng Hoa is commonly used to describe Mandarin Chinese, as well as tiếng Tàu for Chinese in general. Possibly even a thousand years earlier, in the late first millennium BC, Yuè elites in what is now southern China may have already adopted a form of writing based on Chinese characters to record terms from their own languages ...

  6. Conjunction (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    In grammar, a conjunction (abbreviated CONJ or CNJ) is a part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses, which are called its conjuncts.That description is vague enough to overlap with those of other parts of speech because what constitutes a "conjunction" must be defined for each language.

  7. Chữ Nôm - Wikipedia

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    Chữ Nôm (𡨸喃, IPA: [t͡ɕɨ˦ˀ˥ nom˧˧]) [5] is a logographic writing system formerly used to write the Vietnamese language.It uses Chinese characters to represent Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary and some native Vietnamese words, with other words represented by new characters created using a variety of methods, including phono-semantic compounds. [6]

  8. English articles - Wikipedia

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    The articles in English are the definite article the and the indefinite articles a and an.They are the two most common determiners.The definite article is the default determiner when the speaker believes that the listener knows the identity of a common noun's referent (because it is obvious, because it is common knowledge, or because it was mentioned in the same sentence or an earlier sentence).

  9. Construction grammar - Wikipedia

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    Construction grammar (often abbreviated CxG) is a family of theories within the field of cognitive linguistics which posit that constructions, ...