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Old 09-20-2011, 06:16 AM   #233
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Originally Posted by Billi View Post
Okay, this is only one part of the language, for many other things there are different words for verb and noun, but these cases are no exception and occur often enough that I'm wondering how they counted the words to get the figures mentioned in this thread.
Oh, I see what you mean. Yes, they'd all be counted as one word.

English does have fewer inflections, certainly in regular verbs, and most words follow the general rules. Of course, it's the most common words that don't, which is a problem in all languages.
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