uranodioning:janothar:linguisten:Nominal tense?( top image: photo of a workbook for japanese speaker
uranodioning:janothar:linguisten:Nominal tense?( top image: photo of a workbook for japanese speaker learning english. the workbook asks the learner to put “i live in tokyo” in past tense. the student has written in “i live in edo.” )tags via snowenby: #for the confused: in english we change the verb to tell that a thing happened in the past #in some languages they change the noun - this is called nominal tense #so the funny here is that instead of changing live to lived #they changed tokyo to edo #which is the former name of tokyo -- source link
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