POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Speaks : Re: Speaks Server Time
4 Sep 2024 09:20:44 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Speaks  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 21 Mar 2010 15:18:09
Message: <4ba670f1@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> And English just has "speak", "speaks", "spoke", "spoken", and
>> "speaking".
> 
> To be fair, there's a lot more tenses than that, except you use multiple
> verbs and conjugate the other verbs.  We even have a verb that means
> nothing except it carries the conjugation along.
> 
> I speak.
> He speaks.
> I spoke.
> I have spoken.
> I am speaking.
> I have been speaking.
> I will speak.
> I will be speaking.
> I will have been speaking.
> Do I speak?

Same for person. English adds the appropriate article before the verb. 
Spanish has six different forms (one per grammatical person) for each tense.


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