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Re:Turkish language has a gossip tense by scrollaway on Sunday October 13, 2024 @05:29AM (#41826467)
> articles in English (the, a) are subtle as hell and extremely difficult to use correctly if you're not a native speaker.

Found the Slavic speaker ;)

The/A construction is similar in most Latin languages.

Absolutely agree on the other two features though. It’s kinda crazy and I have no idea how I actually learned those things… they just “happened” into my head. (I’m not a native speaker)

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Re:Turkish language has a gossip tense by LudwigNagasena on Sunday October 13, 2024 @11:16AM (#41828743)
Articles exist in Romance languages, that’s true, but they are subtly different. You usually wouldn’t say “the Tuesday” in English but you would often say “el martes” in Spanish; “tennis” vs “el tenis”; “I don’t have a car” vs “no tengo coche” and so on.
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