Volapűük nulíik: Difference between revisions

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The first version is more common among speakers of a lower social status, whereas the second has a more official and literal style. The first version, however, may also be used by people of upper status, especially in situations in which a person wants to emphasise that the dress IS expensive. This is in contrast to languages like German or English not expressed on the intonational level but on the morphological.  
The first version is more common among speakers of a lower social status, whereas the second has a more official and literal style. The first version, however, may also be used by people of upper status, especially in situations in which a person wants to emphasise that the dress IS expensive. This is in contrast to languages like German or English not expressed on the intonational level but on the morphological.  
Numerals
Numerals also belong, just like adjectives, predominantly to the category of nouns but can be used as verbs:
{|
|-
|Lödáps
||niðom
||žönlig
||giló
|-
|RESIDE-pres.-m./f.pl.
||IN-HOUSE-abs.
||BEAUTIFUL-abs.
||THREE-loc.
|}
{|
|-
|Telegänáms.
|Twenty-pers.-pres.-m.pl.
|}


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