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Latin is a source of limited amount of loan words + tweak
(3rd pers. sing. for "to be" 'është' from latin 'est') |
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As you may notice the Albanian nouns have their article affixed to the end of the noun and not preceding it. | As you may notice the Albanian nouns have their article affixed to the end of the noun and not preceding it. | ||
Albanian has 2 grammatical genders: masculine and feminine but worry not, nouns that end in a consonant are masculines and nouns ending in a vowel are feminines. Exceptions are if the noun clearly is of the other gender than the vowel/consonant rule would say. | Albanian has 2 grammatical genders: masculine and feminine but worry not, sing. indef. nouns that end in a consonant are masculines and nouns ending in a vowel are feminines. Exceptions are if the noun clearly is of the other gender than the vowel/consonant rule would say. | ||
'''Verbs: first things to know''': | '''Verbs: first things to know''': | ||
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Albanian has a lot of loan words but they come from a wide variety of languages including but not limited to English, Italian, French, Slavic, Germanic, Swedish, Jamaican etc. | Albanian has a lot of loan words but they come from a wide variety of languages including but not limited to Latin, English, Italian, French, Slavic, Germanic, Swedish, Jamaican etc. | ||
== Resources for learning Albanian == | == Resources for learning Albanian == | ||