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Common terms and phrases
3d person accent acter acute accent adjectives alphabet anno aprend aprend Arabic aspirated August September October autumn winter Capitalization Cardinal numbers ch in church characters circumflex Closed vowel combinations compound words consonant Dative December Days declension definite article dialects dieresis diphthongs eight nine eleventh twelfth eration feminine fifth final foreign words French gender genitive German Greek guttural indefinite indicates inflection initial July August September Landsmål language last syllable Latin Latin alphabet letters ligatures Maidu makumi masculine Monday nasal nasal vowel neuter ninth Nominative nouns participle personal pronoun phonetic preceding prefix preposition pronounced pronunciation proper names Punctuation Riksmål semivowel seventh Singular Plural sixth soft sound stress suffixes Sunday syllable Tagalog Takelma tense third thirteen thousand Ordinal numbers Thursday Friday Saturday tone Translit Transliteration Tsimshian Tuesday verb voiced vowel Wednesday Seasons words ending
Popular passages
Page 40 - Articles There are three distinct articles, which must agree in gender and number with the noun to which they refer: The indefinite and two forms of the definite, the latter two known as the "postpositive " or "noun article" and the "prepositive" or "adjective article", respectively.
Page 156 - An adverb is a word used to modify the meaning of a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
Page 81 - ... one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty thirty forty fifty sixty seventy eighty ninety one hundred two hundred three hundred four hundred five hundred...
Page 202 - A syllable cannot begin with s followed by a consonant, as cir-cuns-tan-cia. The liquid consonants I and r, when preceded by a consonant, other than in the combinations rl, si, tl, and sr, must not be separated from that consonant, except in the case of prefixes or compound words. Examples: ha-blar, po-dria, sub-lunar, ab-ro-gar, es-la-bon.
Page 258 - These are articulated nearly alike, bilaterally, with the tip of the tongue against the back of the upper teeth.
Page 125 - DF, defensor fidei, defender of the faith DG, Dei gratia, by the grace of God; Deo gratias, thanks to God DN, Dominus...
Page 20 - English one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty twenty-one thirty forty fifty sixty seventy eighty ninety one hundred...
Page 123 - For Friday the Greek term parasceve was sometimes employed, and for Saturday vigilium. Cardinal numbers unus, una, unum duo, duae, duo tres, tria quattuor quinque sex septem octo novem Ordinal numbers primus secundus tertius quartus quintus sextus Septimus octavus nonus Months Januarius Februarius...
Page 126 - LL.B., legum baccalaureus, bachelor of laws LL.D., legum doctor, doctor of laws LL.M., legum magister, master of laws loc. cit., loco citato, in the place cited...
Page 124 - AC, ante Christum, before Christ AD, anno Domini, in the year of our Lord ad, ante diem, before the day ad...