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| May 28, 2014 at 23:06 | comment | added | user39425 | @Janus I don't speak Dutch. I was going off what the OP wrote: "Dutch has the verb zwijgen which means remaining silent. Ik zwijg means I remain silent or I say nothing." Whether the word conjugates or not, the OP presented what looks like an adjective to me. Quiet is used as a verb and an adjective. I merely pointed out that this dutch word seems to do the same. I made an edit to address this. | |
| May 28, 2014 at 23:06 | history | edited | user39425 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 28, 2014 at 22:43 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Zwijgen is not “more appropriately labeled an adjective because it is describing a noun”. It is a verb, pure and simple. It conjugates as a verb, and it doesn’t describe any noun. To be silent is an action in languages like Dutch, unlike in English. Quiet in English is not an answer to the question because it is not a verb that means ‘to be silent’. It is either an adjective, or a verb that means ‘to make silent’. | |
| May 28, 2014 at 21:51 | history | answered | user39425 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |