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Conlangery 139: Ainu (natlang)

Conlangery Podcast

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The Importance of Do Support in English

The verb key is a weird quirk of English that is not that, uh, exactly. It's just not as common as in English, but it is there. The main thing they usually do is to nominalize the verbs and then add other things after them. There are plenty of ways to create imperatives including kunipita anena or ruene which means 'first hand experience' But Shinsin says he advises people to look for all those different forms because you have gigantic lists of possible options.

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