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--- conjugation [2018/08/27 11:16]
ob [Inchoative and Causative Verbs and the Middle Voice]
+++ conjugation [2018/08/27 11:42]
ob [Inchoative and Causative Verbs and the Middle Voice] middle voice
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   * use the verb "become", i.e. //de plat verd trok//
-Regarding the middle voice, this relates to verbs in general. An example verb is "burn" and a pair of example phrases is "the coal is burning" and "we're burning the coal". The simple scenario of not making a distinction yields these translations: //de kol bren// and //vi bren de kol//. How should we handle these verbs?
+Regarding the middle voice, this relates to verbs in general. An example verb is "burn" and an example phrase is "the coal is burning", which can be interpreted as reflexive or causative. For this, and the unambiguous example of "we're burning the coal", the simple scenario of not making a distinction yields these translations: //de kol bren// (ambiguous) and //vi bren de kol//. How should we handle these verbs?
 ==== Additional remarks ====
   * mostly it is proposed to make all verbs regular, except for the one for //to be//

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