Dan Mirea
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Boaz S :
Hebrew: there is to me a pen
2022-08-29 21:39:58
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holagatitto :
my first language is Russian and I've never realized it
2022-08-29 21:54:19
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Paulina :
Wouldn’t really agree about Russian. You can also say «Я имею ручку», where «имею/иметь» is literally «to have»
2022-08-30 00:23:17
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Not Christian :
Reminds of Spanish like "I have sleep" for "I'm tired" or "I have hunger" for "I'm hungry"
2022-09-07 05:49:12
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Gaeilge le Jane • Irish w Jane :
Irish: tá peann agam = there is a pen by / at me
2022-08-29 22:18:04
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Nina :
Finnish: on me is a pen (basically)
2022-08-30 03:54:00
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🕺🏻 :
In Arabic: عندي قلم literally translates to "at me a pen"
2022-08-30 04:12:06
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Gari_Bracla :
In Welsh things are with us; sensations/desires are on us.
2022-08-30 00:02:23
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Carrie Weinhold :
у меня, means I have.
2022-09-15 03:49:45
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mona.ineza :
in swahili you say "I am with pen" lol
2022-08-30 04:55:22
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Olya🇺🇦 :
Ha never thought about this! I’m native Ukrainian and russian speaker and in ru they don’t have “to have” like you said, but in ukr we do
2022-08-30 08:27:43
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Welberry :
secretly debunking the sapir-whorf hypothesis
2022-08-30 22:43:55
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Lane!!! :
Ownership/possession written into the English language… feels tied to colonialism and capitalism
2022-08-30 04:13:10
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Hera_Healing :
Not me being fluent in Turkish and not realizing this 😂
2022-08-30 05:28:43
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ميرا/mira :
currently learning Korean and i think it might be the same!
2022-08-30 02:02:15
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stella :
In Modern Standard Arabic to say “I have a book” you can say "كتاب معي" or "لِ كتاب" (and many other ways, it depends on the shade u want to express)
2022-09-25 12:46:20
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Meanwhile :
What's a language that has a direct specific word for something we English speakers have to communicate in phrases like this?
2022-08-30 00:45:58
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da_ty_ne_morzh :
Иметь
2022-08-30 02:08:24
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Duke McDonald 🎸 Cover Artist :
Finland 🇫🇮 has entered the chat.
2022-08-30 06:38:20
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Rainbow Cat :
but our "есть" literally means "to have"...
2022-09-09 12:35:07
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Leila U :
me a native russian speaker wondering what mysterious languages you’re talking about here lol
2022-08-30 01:43:11
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oatlyoatly :
Hindi: near me is a pen
2022-08-30 01:21:56
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sipuli :
In Finnish we also say "a pen exists on me" but I never thought about it before, you just blew my mind about my own language
2022-08-30 06:34:42
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selmi holopainen :
interesting! Finnish has something similar, we don't have a verb for 'to have' but we use the verb 'to be'.
2022-08-29 21:36:10
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Zach :
Whaaat 🤯 what an interesting and elegant solution!
2022-08-29 23:50:20
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