Thread 213911470

>יוון
This word is just a few lines, but it makes sense in Hebrew
Post some weird facts about your language

the longest commonly accepted contraction in english is y'all'dn't've (you all would not have)

>>213912530
this is how people from florida talk

w can be a vowel letter (in some loanwords from welsh: cwm and crwth)

english has this rare feature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-colored_vowel

ough has many pronunciations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ough_(orthography)

english has many pairs of words where the less formal one is of germanic origin and the more formal one is of latinate/old french origin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Germanic_and_Latinate_equivalents_in_English

>eaux
you will never guess how this word is pronounced

>>213913527
"ooo"?

>>213911470 (OP)
>In Polish, in certain contexts you can use future tense to describe the past. Afaik, Lithuanian also does this.
>You can make you speech sound passive-agressive if you use honorifics (Pan/Pani) but conjugate verb in singular second person
>'Żółć'(bile) is the only Polish word that is written using only Polish letters
>word for the 'moon'(księżyc) is derived from 'prince'(książę) whereas in other language moon and month are related
>Polish medical vocabulary often has two sets of words: Polish in origin, Latin-Greek in origin e.g.puls-tętno (pulse), epilepsja-padaczka (epilepsy), osteoporoza-zrzeszotnienie kości[this latter one is rarely used], osteoporosis)

>>213913527
[o]

>>213911470 (OP)
What happens if I run a bar code scanner over that word?

>>213914587
Sounds cool. How's the future tense thing?

Our word for "island" is just a single letter: ö
Same with "river", it's: å

>>213911470 (OP)
Something that I never see being taught to Swedish-learners is that we have a seperate word for "yes" when we're responding to negative statements
>Du diskade inte tallriken - You didn't wash the plate
>Jo (not 'ja'), det gjorde jag - Yes I did

>>213915124
>How's the future tense thing?
Hard to explain it, but when narrating a story to put an emphasis on a verb often future tense is used, typically with 'jak nie'.
Picrel is the best I could find. English sentence structure is differnet and that's why they used the past tense