We have two similar words in Portuguse but with different accentuation: cúpido (cupidous - stressed on the first syllable) and Cupido (Cupid - stressed on the second syllable).

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My sense of dictionary

My sense of dictionary? And nobody gave me the third degree for that one? I meant direction.

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"Yesterday my mother cooked potatoes (but I did not see her do it)." That doesn't surprise me. Macedonian has two ways to express that in the past as well: Вчера мама ми вари компири - Včera mama mi vari kompiri (using the aorist, which expresses the action as something known and witnesse...

On napišet pismo "He will be writing the letter", where the latter has a present form (and a prefix), but the meaning of an accomplished future. The explanation about the perfective is right, but I would translate the above sentence as He will write the letter, or even He will have writte...

Is it just me or Germanic and Romance languages are closer to each other than either is to Slavic languages? From these three major branches (major here referring to the number of speakers), I would say the Slavic languages are the hardest, followed by Romance and ending with Germanic? Do you agree?...

The illustration from France?

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Lest we forget that Portuguese has also vaca, Romanian vacă and Italian vacca (alongside mucca).

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Web Resultados 1 - 10 de aproximadamente 61 páginas em português sobre incertidão

Well, I guess my dictionary is outdated and I'm relieved I didn't make a mistake.

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Today, while talking to my brother, I hesitated awhile at the word for uncertainty. The word that came to mind first was Spanish incertidumbre (sometimes this happens to me) and I had to translate it into Portuguese, which I did using incertidão, which he definitely understood. After I had hung up, ...

Whenever I see pernicious (or pernicioso), I think of leg - Portuguese perna, Spanish pierna - and I think of someone with long legs.

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畵? Oh, so that's what my kanji dictionary means when it puts another kanji in brackets? I didn't know that. Thanks!

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I don't know squat about Chinese, but having learned around 900 kanji enables me to understand a lot of it. But I do dislike the simplified writing, which, not being familiar for me, is more complicated. We should abolish it and all the kanji lands would live happily for ever.

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This is for Flam: cabbage \KAB-ij\ verb : steal, filch Example sentence: In the late 18th-century play The Reconciliation, Mrs. Grim confesses that she "now and then cabbaged a penny." Did you know? Does the "filching" sense of "cabbage" bring to mind an image of thieve...

No, the past and the past participle are the same, slung (or slinged if you prefer), just like lead - led - led, shine - shone, shone (also shined, but that's a different story, unless told otherwise), and many others.

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Well, I'm sorry, Flam, but I don't get anything that you are saying. That's fine, though.

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