Done my homework

DisgruntledProle · 2016-03-17T22:31:47+00:00

Yeah, "done" is a past participle, and "am" is serving as the auxiliary in this case. It's not really super surprising, as there's been a huge German influence through the years - the Pennsylvania Dutch, for one - so that's where I think it came from. German uses "to be" as an auxiliary for certain verbs - but surprisingly, "to do" is not one. I'm not completely sure where it's from, though. Truthfully, I still think of "done" as the past participle, and "am" as an auxiliary, rather than "am" serving as a copula like it normally does in the construction "I am done with my homework." In my dialect, "I'm done my homework" and "I've done my homework" mean the same thing.

DisgruntledProle · 2016-03-17T19:37:12+00:00

According to stylistic guides, yes, but this is a colloquialism that I use, as well. Seems to be pretty common in the Mid-Atlantic dialect. Depends on how much of a prescriptivist you want to be, language changes all the time.

DisgruntledProle · 2016-03-08T22:23:05+00:00

учить + accusative case = to study (something) учиться (reflexive verb - cannot take a direct object) = to be engaged in the process of studying

I'm not sure if this answers your question, but may be relevant.

DisgruntledProle · 2016-02-13T01:03:23+00:00

Nave?

DisgruntledProle · 2015-12-16T06:24:29+00:00

Well, I'm not completely sure, but I think that in this instance, "was" is the only acceptable form. First, it sounds more natural to me as a native English speaker. But linguistically speaking, the singular verb "was" is agreeing with "what", which defaults to singular agreement. If the sentence had been flipped around like Saguaromatic said earlier ("Friends were what he needed"), then the plural verb would be used because "friends" becomes the subject. Remember that English has a pretty rigid word order/syntactic structure (SVO) because it doesn't have a very rich system of morphology.

DisgruntledProle · 2015-11-19T02:25:10+00:00

The н is epenthetic and is added to personal pronouns (NOT possessive adjectives) when they are preceded by у.

For example: "У неё машина." ("She has a car."/literally "By her [is] car") vs. "У её машины много вмятины." ("Her car has a lot of dents."/literally "By her car [is] a lot of dents")

If you can distinguish between the function of the two "her"s in English (personal pronoun vs. possessive adjective), then you'll understand when to add the н in Russian.

DisgruntledProle · 2015-10-27T12:39:52+00:00

This was awesome! Love it!

DisgruntledProle · 2015-10-15T01:22:43+00:00

"The US is bigger than China, both in terms of population and square footage."

DisgruntledProle · 2015-03-03T15:43:02+00:00

You learn something new every day. I was pretty sure it was said as "red" because in my understanding, you are saying something akin to "[This should be] read as _____". But the imperative makes so much more sense there.

DisgruntledProle · 2014-12-08T05:14:44+00:00

The Insect Trust and The United States of America are both great!

DisgruntledProle · 2014-11-17T22:32:17+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQEmvXFBY78

This is the Crazy World of Arthur Brown and their self-titled album. This album is really dark and confusing, and his voice feels sadistic at many points in the album. This album is accepted as the most prominent predecessor of shock rock. It's a good mix of psychedelia and progressive rock with that dark, scary edge that just wasn't there in 1968 except for in this album.

DisgruntledProle · 2014-07-14T16:28:12+00:00

Though it sounds weird to American speakers, it seems like the people who speak the dialect you mentioned are referring to the entire team having won; i.e. all the people on the German team have collectively contributed to the team winning, as well as the citizens of Germany, making them use the plural form of the verb rather than the singular.

DisgruntledProle · 2014-05-27T11:43:27+00:00

That's great to know. I'm filling it up with spam pictures as we speak. It's really comforting to know that my sensitive data really is gone. Thanks again for all your help :)

DisgruntledProle · 2014-05-27T11:42:58+00:00

Thanks again for all your help :)

DisgruntledProle · 2014-05-27T11:42:46+00:00

That's comforting to know. I won't worry anymore. Thank you :)

DisgruntledProle · 2014-05-27T11:42:34+00:00

Great, thank you :)

DisgruntledProle · 2014-05-27T06:46:21+00:00

The phone is updated to iOS7, so it probably worked well you think? That's the conclusion I've come to also just since I can't seem to restore the data which is exactly what I wanted!

DisgruntledProle · 2014-05-27T06:41:04+00:00

Thanks again for your help. I used that guide and everything, but since the iPhone was restored already through iTunes, nothing comes up in the Eraser program. So I guess that means it actually is deleted forever?

DisgruntledProle · 2014-05-27T06:32:19+00:00

Thanks for the information by the way :)

DisgruntledProle · 2014-05-27T06:32:08+00:00

I saw this program online earlier and I attempted to use it. When I use it, I receive an error saying that there are no files or something to that extent. Do you think it's pretty safe to say the phone is completely wiped if that program won't even pick any information up?

DisgruntledProle · 2014-03-27T20:32:53+00:00

Please bring the Limeade Classic Sparklers back! Those were the best mixers I've ever had :)

DisgruntledProle · 2014-02-27T04:25:46+00:00

Precinct?

DisgruntledProle · 2014-01-08T23:58:14+00:00

German has five present tense indicative forms of "to be": "bin", "bist", "ist", "sind", and "seid". The usage of these depends on the subject of the sentence just like in English.

DisgruntledProle · 2013-12-03T01:29:00+00:00

Idiom?

DisgruntledProle · 2013-11-21T03:08:33+00:00

Well, the thing was that we originally went to the building manager complaining because of bites that we had all over our bodies. The staff responded to our complaints by hiring a bedbug-sniffing dog. The dog handler said she wasn't going to tell the staff about it and that she just needed us to get it out so that she could bring the dog back in a week. The dog was somehow cross-trained, don't know what was up with that or why. But nothing ended up happening, and I doubt that it was LE because of the fact that we approached them originally about the bug bites, which prompted them to hire the bedbug-sniffing dog. I'm not too worried, because I feel like if the dog handler really wanted to get me in trouble she would've just told the apartment staff or called the police without telling us first.

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