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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: | |||
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|- | |||
|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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