• Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 days ago

    In my native language it’s really easy: for example, the difference between “No, I’ll do it” and “I won’t do it” is just a comma

    Can you elaborate on that? 🤔

    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      7 days ago

      Let’s say someone asks “did you check the thing?”

      In Hebrew, you can reply: “לא, אבדוק” meaning “no, I’ll check”.

      But if you drop the comma, it comes out as “לא אבדוק” meaning “I won’t check”.

      The negation of the verb is done by adding לא (“no”, or “not”) before the verb.