Let's talk about the irregular English verb "to be".
How irregular is it? CRAZY IRREGULAR!(!!!!!!!!!)
I am
[Thou art]
He is
We are
You are
They are
I was
[Thou wert]
He was
We were
You were
They were
What makes this verb so special >:[
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Let's talk about the irregular English verb "to be".
How irregular is it? CRAZY IRREGULAR!(!!!!!!!!!)
I am
[Thou art]
He is
We are
You are
They are
I was
[Thou wert]
He was
We were
You were
They were
What makes this verb so special >:[
Because it is to be. You can't do anything else without being (except NOT BEING LOLOLOLOLOL).
Thou is old-school for informal second-person speech. Plus, there's many other verbs that are way more irregular than to be.
well let's talk about them!
How can you have a verb
When there's nothing altered?
How can you do something
When it's done to nothing?
It's not when you blink your eyes
Or when you wash your hair
How can you get it done?
It can be done anywhere
Oh, I really should have known
By the time that I was grown
See the blank stare in my eyes?
You knew by the time that you were five
You think I'm a mental case
By the expression on your face
Maybe you might have
Some advice to give
How a verb can be
Intransitive
Intransitive
Intransitive
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Ugh, I hate irregular verbs when it comes to foreign languages (other than English, though).
It's not special if you're a pirate =)Originally Posted by Rubah Lapah
Arrr! Ye be walkin' the plank next, matey!
They were sent to frustrate us.
I frustrate
You frustrate
She frustrates
We frustrate
You frustrate
They frustrate
Dude, what a beautifully easy verb.
To be. The obvious thing to do is go off on a Hamlet tangent. I still don't know the past formation of it in ancient Greek, which I was supposed to as of September...must larn it.
You still need being to express that in english, though. "Not" on it's own could mean anything LOLOLOLOLOLLLLLLLLLLLL-
*is hit on head with mallet for being pedantic*
I agree with ya, though.
It's the most irregular because it's probably the most common and important verb. By virtue of it's necessary use alone, it is easy to learn even for people who have English as a second language, as they are bombarded with it at all times.
is is is is are
oh wait one less is; you had an extra apostrophe
I'm so glad I natively speak English, it'd be a real pain to learn it xD
you've not known Shakespeare until you've read it in the original klingon
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
taH pagh taHbe'. DaH mu'tlheghvam vIqelnIS.
quv'a', yabDaq San vaQ cha, pu' je SIQDI'?
pagh, Seng bIQ'a'Hey SuvmeH nuHmey SuqDI',
'ej, Suvmo', rInmoHDI'? Hegh. Qong --- Qong neH ---
'ej QongDI', tIq 'oy', wa'SanID Daw''e' je
cho'nISbogh porghDaj rInmoHlaH net Har.
I like chocolate!! No matter what flavor you get, you can always taste the broken dreams!
~Dead people should stay dead, otherwise whats the point of killing them???
Yeah. I really quite enjoy the way Latin handles verbs, principle parts and stems and participles and all. Most of the time, if you can make these, it's no problem conjugating verbs. This allows single verbs to represent the person performing the action, the tense of the action, and what action is being performed. I don't know if this is an aspect of languages outside English, but I think it's a really interesting (and convenient) idea.
But ... to be is irregular in Latin too. Very. smurfing. Irregular.
And then there's the Pluperfect tense, Future Perfect Tense, Infinitives and participles, and the subjunctive and imperative moods ...Present Tense
Singular Plural
1 sum sumus
2 es estis
3 est sunt
Imperfect Tense
Singular Plural
1 eram eramus
2 eras eratis
3 erat erant
Future Tense
Singular Plural
1 ero erimus
2 eris eritis
3 erit erunt
Perfect Tense
Singular Plural
1 fui fuimus
2 fuisti fuistis
3 fuit fuerunt
I wonder, is to be like this in a lot of languages?
oh yeah I remember that weird fuisti stuff when we were learning ser in spanish.
No, please don't remind me about that. All those different changes. The Present tense was the worst out of all of them. At least the other forms had regular patterns, just unique constructions.
Anyone else know the conjugations for "to be" in any other languages? Preferably not Indo-European. We know how those work.
mga na pipino.
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