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minus-squareboydster@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-23 days agoOoo help me learn today if you don’t mind… Where does this prefix grouping come from? Edit: found it, I think: Chinese?
minus-squarethatKamGuy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 days agoCorrect; wo, ni, ta are the singular forms I, you, he/she/it. Adding the -men suffix turns it into the plural we/you/they. So literally, ‘we’ are ‘women’.
Ooo help me learn today if you don’t mind… Where does this prefix grouping come from?
Edit: found it, I think: Chinese?
Correct; wo, ni, ta are the singular forms I, you, he/she/it. Adding the -men suffix turns it into the plural we/you/they.
So literally, ‘we’ are ‘women’.