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[Unknown Hero]

I got it when you posted your first message in this forum.

[Tom Henrik]

What annoys me with croatian is the different forms

For instance the difference in the ending of the words.
-AN = male form
-NA = female form

Let's take that example and move it to a new step.

Jest trudNA
This means "She is pregnant."

Jest trudAN
This means "He is pregnant."

The word "Jest" means both "He is" and "She is", it is the ending of the last word that decide the sex of the person. As you can all see... the last sentence doesn't make much sense, unless you happen to be carrying the Iman. (According to Hindu beliefs, he shall be born by a man). :wink:

And so ends Tom's little Croatian class.

[Durak]

Jest does mean she is and he is, but the reason they have a different ending is to distinguish between the two. Of course you already knew that, but why is that so annoying?

Doesn't Jest mean Is?

[Unknown Hero]

It's easier to write is pregnant than she/he is pregnant.
(jest trudan/trudna - ona/on je trudan/trudna.)

[Tom Henrik]

Because I always mix the two :wink:

Why can't languages be as easy as Norwegian

- English
-- I am
- You are
-- He is
- She is
-- It is
- We are
- You are
They are

Do you all see how easy Norwegian is?
It is the only language in that group that only changes one of the words.

[Unknown Hero]

Because I always mix the two :wink:

Why can't languages be as easy as Norwegian

- English
-- I am
- You are
-- He is
- She is
-- It is
- We are
- You are
They are

Do you all see how easy Norwegian is?
It is the only language in that group that only changes one of the words.

Sam
Si
Je
Smo
Ste
Su

See how Croatian is easy. The easiest I would say. :wink:
I wrote shorter version of what you wrote up there.

[Tom Henrik]

I know you can take away the Person in the sentene, and even the "je" part. But I wanted to make a point saying that Norwegian was sooooo much cooler :wink:

[Havell]

English is really complicated, I'm glad I didn't have to learn it .
There are about 500 irregular verbs or something stupid like that, it's so hard that most English people can't speak it properly.

[Unknown Hero]

Blah, Blah, Blah....

I have never heard of any cool language.
BTW did you hear for Kivunjo language of tribe Bantu. I heard it's the longest and the most complicated language (I heard that one verb can be formed in 5 milion ways! It also ha 14 genders!?!?! And many other features).