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It was developed and in regular use by the 8th century CE [7] and achieved its modern form by 1000 CE. [10] The Devanāgarī script, composed of 48 primary characters, including 14 vowels and 34 consonants, [ 11 ] is the fourth most widely adopted writing system in the world, [ 12 ] [ 13 ] being used for over 120 languages.
E-Prime (short for English-Prime or English Prime, [1] sometimes É or E′) denotes a restricted form of English in which authors avoid all forms of the verb to be.. E-Prime excludes forms such as be, being, been, present tense forms (am, is, are), past tense forms (was, were) along with their negative contractions (isn't, aren't, wasn't, weren't), and nonstandard contractions such as ain't ...
The verb root ɸ for non-complex verbs is a single root however for complex verbs ɸ is in the form of ɸ1 + ɸ2 where ɸ2 acts like ɸ of the non-complex verbs which is declinable according to the aspect, for example, for the verb karnā ("to do") the root is kar and for the complex verb kar jānā (which is one of the perfective forms of "to ...
Hindi-Urdu, also known as Hindustani, has three noun cases (nominative, oblique, and vocative) [1] [2] and five pronoun cases (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, and oblique).
There is a contrast between the regular verb "to be" and the copulative/auxiliary verb "to be" in Turkish. The auxiliary verb imek shows its existence only through suffixes to predicates that can be nouns, adjectives or arguably conjugated verb stems, arguably being the only irregular verb in Turkish. In the third person, zero copula is the ...
Use of [s] instead of [z] for the -s ending of the plural after voiced consonants, for example dogs may be [daɡs] instead of [dɒɡz]. [53] Pronunciation of house as [haʊz] in both the noun and the verb, instead of [haʊs] as a noun and [haʊz] as a verb. Silent letters may be pronounced.
The basic form of the verb (be, write, play) is used as the infinitive, although there is also a "to-infinitive" (to be, to write, to play) used in many syntactical constructions. There are also infinitives corresponding to other aspects: (to) have written, (to) be writing, (to) have been writing.
In India, Romanised Hindi is the dominant form of expression online. In an analysis of YouTube comments, Palakodety et al., identified that 52% of comments were in Romanised Hindi, 46% in English, and 1% in Devanagari Hindi. [9] Romanised Hindi is also used by some newspapers such as The Times of India.