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The Nominative Singular Stem in Estonian Nouns
In the Spanish, what happened was you had a construction with the infinitive plus avar that meant, did it mean future initially or was it different meaning? No, it was, it was obligation. So basically the idea that it is is somehow this, the avar form got just stuck onto the verb and that became the future. Yo, cantar hay becomes, comes cantar hay. That's sort of an example of something you would never come up with just thinking of morphemes because you wouldn't think of adding something to another form of the verb in order to make a new form of the verbs. Right. Estonian does two things that are very interesting. One