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I've stopped learning Chinese when I left the country. I've only had HSK 2, but man do I miss no conjugation, you ate an apple pie for breakfast this morning? Well "This morning breakfast I eat an apple pie".
You already told it was this mornings breakfast with context.
This is something you really see when discovering another language that is not yours. I'm on Modern Speaking Arabic right now and I see it a lot
Technically it's:
今天早上的早餐我吃了一个苹果派
Today morning breakfast I eat(了）an apple pie
You have to put the "了" to be correct
了 is kinda like past tense
Then you have Welsh where a lot of things are double affirmed in sentences removing ambiguity. even for the word yes you conjugate your reply as it depending on the quesrion they asked you.
Wyt. (Yes, you are. when asked as Am I?)
Ydw. (Yes, I am.)
Ydy. (Yes, he is.)
Ydy. (Yes, she is.)
Ydych. (Yes, you are. when asked as are We?)
Ydyn. (Yes, we are.)
Ydyn. (Yes, they are.)
How do you pronounce Ydw, Ydy and Ydych?
Oh boy, Welsh is fun. Y is sort of an UH sound, W is a OO sound and CH is A hard back of throat noise you make for the real scottish LOCH
Seems to be like "Eh-dew", "Eh-dee", "Eh-dich", so eh- or uh- for the Y at the start. Welsh IPA guide on wiktionary says Y at the start is like the a at the start of "about", when it's not either a single-syllable or in the last syllable of a word, in which case it's an "eee" sound, like the end of "happy".
doesn't Chinese have pronouns though?
她 she 他 he 它 it
or am I missing something ?
They're written differently, but pronounced the same.
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