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crazychrome
on April 21, 2014
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Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard (1992)
Exactly. Even after 10 years living in UK I still make mistakes with verb. Consider this:
http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/English/have.html
, a table just for "have"!
Gorkys
on April 22, 2014
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Dude, that's nothing. Romance languages are much worse. Check out Italian:
http://italian.about.com/library/verb/blverb_avere.htm
frooxie
on April 22, 2014
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Well, then there's Finnish with its noun cases, etc:
http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Perkele_ddd3f7_5063375.jpg
dublinben
on April 21, 2014
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What's so complicated about that? It's far from the most irregular verb in the language. The participle is really the only curve ball.
Raphael
on April 21, 2014
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