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Jackson6612  +  420066 Mon, 17 Sep 07 03:48 PM

 Ant_222 wrote:

(...to be continued...)

Hi Ant,

This will be very enlightening.

Kind regards, Jackson
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Loojka  +  420246 Tue, 18 Sep 07 12:25 AM
 Philip wrote:

The French word for "tense" is the same as for "time".  


In my mother tongue there's one word for "tense", "time" and "weather"... just imagine how confusing that can be Smile [:)]
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Jackson6612  +  420253 Tue, 18 Sep 07 12:45 AM

 Loojka wrote:


In my mother tongue there's one word for "tense", "time" and "weather"... just imagine how confusing that can be Smile [:)]

Hi Loojka,

May I know that word?
Jackson6612
Yankee  +  420254 Tue, 18 Sep 07 12:46 AM
 Loojka wrote:
 Philip wrote:

The French word for "tense" is the same as for "time".  


In my mother tongue there's one word for "tense", "time" and "weather"... just imagine how confusing that can be Smile [:)]

lol Smile [:)]
Let's just hope you can weather this discussion on English tenses.
By the way, the Germans use the word 'Zeitform' -- a very literal translation of that would be 'time form'.

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Loojka  +  420266 Tue, 18 Sep 07 01:16 AM
 Jackson6612 wrote:

 Loojka wrote:


In my mother tongue there's one word for "tense", "time" and "weather"... just imagine how confusing that can be Smile [:)]

Hi Loojka,

May I know that word?



Vreme Smile [:)]
Loojka
Bokeh, 2 yr 48 days ago
 Loojka wrote:
there's one word for "tense", "time" and "weather"
Same in Spanish.
Anonymous, 2 yr 45 days ago

it's the same in Bulgarian ....weather, time, tense - Vreme (време)

Anonymous, 2 yr 42 days ago

Wouldn't you say there are twelve tenses?

Simple , Progressive, Perfect, Perfect Progressive - each with past, present, and future tenses - for a total of twelve?  What is the difference between, for example, Future Perfect in the past and Future Perfect?  Is it just the modal auxilary "would" and since that is not a true helping verb, can we consider it one of the tenses?

Ant_222  +  424383 Thu, 27 Sep 07 05:11 PM
Jackson6612: «This will be very enlightening.»

I even don't know how if I should take it as an ironic note... Though I am gonna write it (now that I am back from a Crimea trip).
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