Grammar for Mathematicians

Question

How to put verbs in past tense and in past participle:

Answer 1

not sure there

to grow to throw grew threw grown thrown to fly flew flown(i always say was or were flying to get out i guess,call t a foreigner s trick), to sly slew slown?

i like your crossing just the imperatif status is troubling me somehow

then i m french

Comments

There's also "slay, slew, slain"

English is super irregular so this "rule" only works for some verbs.

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@ harlokee

Bienvenue au club!

Lol - that looks correct to me, except for sly (or rather slay); "sly" is, normally, an adjective (rusé, sournois, retors, ...) or http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Sly

By the way, the mathematical solution was not my idea - lol. But it is great for English learners.

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@ Cameron
Thank you - lol.

Yes, irregular verbs are not easy, but if you compare to the conjugations in German and other languages, like Spanish, they are not so stressing:

Conjugation Tables for "to be", "sein", "estar" (English, German, Spanish)

(GB) http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/English/be.html
(DE) http://www.die-konjugation.de/verb/sein.php
(ES) http://www.esfacil.eu/es/verbos/conjugacion/114-estar.html

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Oops, I forgot to add a link:

https://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/irregular-verbs-list.htm

Answer 2

Ya nye gavaroot paRuski.

Comments

лол!!!
Я не говорю по-русски хорошо.

You're better with the pronounciation ...

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Ya nes nayu

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"Ya ne znayu" (as an answer to "I don't speak Russian well enough" or "you're better with the pronounciation"?

Anyway, I have the same problem with getting the cyrillic letters; I must copy them one by one from a separate font in the word programme or on-line - a very very slow process. And when you look into Russian grammer - well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_grammar
I hope that you will have fun.

Answer 3

Too bad that only works for a few verbs because English is so irregular. 

Comments

Lol - but there are many regular verbs too ...

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@Cameron

Here's a link for the irregular verbs, which might be of use:

https://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/irregular-verbs-list.htm

Answer 4

Your Grammar Math also works in German, for example with schoss and geschossen (shot), along with another similarly-spelled German word which I can't write here because this is a family website and Dan would be too shocked.   :-)

Comments

Lol - of course, and I know what you are avoiding. But you can use the verb to close: "schliessen" (and it rhymes with "to shoot", i.e. "schiessen").

For instance:


The little Smurfs have an ideal solution: use "to smurf" (for every verb) or, in German "schlumpfen" (but it is not irregular), so, "to do, did, done" would be the ideal solution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smurfs

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Yes, but my example shows that Grammar Math works even with some verbs that don't rhyme!

Btw, your cartoon is the first time I ever saw the thought "das kann meine Grossmutter auch" expressed in English, or is it a translation?

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All the links for you went lost; my answer disappeared.
So, I must try to find them again. Here's a short answer and the first link regarding the cartoon: http://cartoonstudio.co.uk/cartoonist-for-hire/comedy-sports-cartoons-for-cartoon-calendar/

I am afraid that I cannot help you in this case; it is a cartoonist from the U.K.

And the origin of the thought about "Grandma can do it too / ... is as good as you are (or better) / ... is the best", etc., is unknown.

Here's a link for a famous German cartoonist, Loriot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicco_von_B%C3%BClow

and for a famous precursor, Wilhelm Busch:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Busch

And now, about grandparents (GB + DE):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandparent
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9Feltern

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Lol, well I don't know the origin of the expression either, just that I had often heard it in German, but never before in English.  I don't think it's used in Spanish.  What about French or Italian or Rumantsch?

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There is a significant difference, if you switch to Romance languages: there are several groups of verbs, i.e. 3 for French, Italian and Spanish and 4 in Latin, which have their irregular verbs too. There is further a form of single past, in as good as all the Romance languages. But I'd rather give you some links for comparing.

Info about the Romance languages and list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages

Conjugation Tables for "sein" and "to be" (German and English)
(DE) http://www.die-konjugation.de/verb/sein.php
(GB) http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/English/be.html

Compare with (to be: être, essere, estar, ser, esse (+ habere):
(FR) http://la-conjugaison.nouvelobs.com/du/verbe/etre.php
(IT) http://www.italian-verbs.com/verbi-italiani/coniugazione.php?id=3835
(ES) http://www.esfacil.eu/es/verbos/conjugacion/114-estar.html
(PT) http://conjpt.cactus2000.de/showverb.fr.php?verb=ser

(Lat) http://latin.cactus2000.de/showverb.en.php?verb=esse
+ http://latin.cactus2000.de/showverb.en.php?verb=habere

Information about standard "romansh" grammar, as there are various dialects; the info found is in FR, DE (and IT):

Romanche: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammaire_romanche_vallader
Rumantsch: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatik_des_Rumantsch_Grischun

And not to forget:
Romanian: http://www.verbix.com/languages/romanian.shtml

I hope that this will be of use.

As for the joke about granny, the illustration is from a caricaturist in the UK.

I think that grandparents are much appreciated in many countries, and that many stories, novels and movies are involving grandparents.

Right now, I think first of "Papy fait de la résistance", a parody: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramps_Is_in_the_Resistance

As "Maman" and "Mamie", Line Renaud, for instance, played several great roles. For Germany, I remember Inge Meysel as a symbol for family movies, either as "Mutti" or as "Oma".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Renaud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inge_Meysel

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Regarding Rumantsch, you might like to look into some TV emissions: http://www.rtr.ch/tv
They are using the "Standard Rumantsch", with a significant Swiss German influence; the Ladino dialects in the south are much closer to Italian.

Some information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romansh_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhaetian_language