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Vikr
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Hi All,

I'd like to know if in any language you know or study (ied), one can find, instead of this form (for example)

Thank God my children are alive


this one

Thank God I am alive-childed

Thanks for your responses
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not in mine, but if you find one, please keep me posted, it's interesting :)
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Post by Vikr »

The only one I know for the moment is Sanskrit

but may be in ancient Tamil or rural Tamil.... :-o
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I think in Ojibwe and other Algonquin languages something like that is technically possible.

Those languages are verb-based; there are verbs like "to-have-a-child" (oniijaanisi), so "i-have-a-child", or "~i'm childed" (nindooniijaanis) is a verb and a partciple "i-who-have-a-child" (weniijaanisiyaan) could be formed easily.

So you can say: zhawenimishin gichi-manidoo ji-oniijaanisiyaan
= bless-me god for-i-to-have-a-child

Is it what you asked about?
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Post by Vikr »

Thanks a lot sv :)
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Could it be done in German? :-o Image
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