VERBS

[The Unknown Guru]

Ugh. English is such a dumb language.

On topic (kinda): This thread gives me an excuse to conjugate "shank". I did this once in my English class. It was awesome. If you need to conjugate a verb in your English class, conjugate shank. It will be awesome.

I shank.
You shank.
He shanks.

I have shanked.
You have shanked.
He has shanked.

Future perfect!!
We will have shanked.
You will have shanked.
They will have shanked.

[Montoya]

Ghoeti.

[Randgris]

mga na pipino.

translation: The Cucumbers (the "na" commonly follows an adjective: mga hilaw na pipino)

[Big D]

'To be' is pretty irregular, it reminds of its equivalent in German, which is 'sein'.

Ich (I) bin
Du (you) bist
Er/sie/es (he/she/it) ist
Wir (we) sind
Ihr (they) seid
Sie/sie (you [formal]/you [plural]) sind

Compare it to 'gehen' - 'to go':

Ich gehe
Du gehst
Er/sie/es geht
Wir gehen
Ihr geht
Sie/sie gehen

Regular verbs are good, they make language nice and formulaic and easy to learn... the irregular kind are just there to make things difficult

[Tavrobel]

Maybe languages have evolved so that irregular verbs are the ones that you NEED to know. After all, there needs to be a way to differentiate them. Well, with regular, it's like, "ohh those are regular, I can't screw those up" and then you get to "to be" and it goes "ohh SNAP there's TWO of them?"

Or our ancestors were sadistic pigs. Either way.

[rubah]

mga na pipino.

translation: The Cucumbers (the "na" commonly follows an adjective: mga hilaw na pipino)

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[Jojee]

One of my TAs this semester gets mad whenever we use that verb more than a few times in any of our essays. Just let us be free, dude =(

[Heath]

'To be' is pretty irregular, it reminds of its equivalent in German, which is 'sein'.

Ich (I) bin
Du (you) bist
Er/sie/es (he/she/it) ist
Wir (we) sind
Ihr (they) seid
Sie/sie (you [formal]/you [plural]) sind

Compare it to 'gehen' - 'to go':

Ich gehe
Du gehst
Er/sie/es geht
Wir gehen
Ihr geht
Sie/sie gehen

Regular verbs are good, they make language nice and formulaic and easy to learn... the irregular kind are just there to make things difficult :aimmad:

I was going to give the example of German too. Though in all honesty, I think sein is probably the easiest irregular verb to deal with because you use it so much. After a while (before even covering the grammar around it) it's just natural to say "ich bin," "du bist," and so on.

Regardless of that, regular verbs are a lot nicer to deal with in any language. Naturally I don't have much trouble with them in English because I'm fluent and it's just something you know as a native speaker, but when learning other languages it makes life simpler.