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Superlative form of the adjective "little" for degree or intensity
Inflections of 'little' (adj):
For size or age:
Littler ("That tree is little, but the tree next
to it is even littler."). Littlest ("Theo is the littlest of my three
little brothers.&...
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Are there any words in English that have a plural with a separate derivation?
There are some irregular plurals in English (child/children, goose/geese), but all of the ones I know of share the same root word.
In some languages, there are some irregular pairs where the singular ...
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Good and bad - suppletive adjectives
In English, there are three suppletive adjectives: good, bad and far. Their comparative and superlative forms derive from different stems, i.e., we have best instead of *goodest, worse instead of *...
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Are there other verbs like “be” and “go”?
The verbs be and go have the nice peculiarity that their various forms (be/was and go/went) come from originally distinct verbs. Are there other such verbs?
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