For instance, you can chop a tree down. Once you’re done, you can chop a tree up.
Imagine the confusion this causes lol.
This is an absolutely minor thing, and it is also a phenomenon which occurs in basically all other languages.
Minor, yes, but there are quite a few of them.
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Break a leg
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It’s raining cats and dogs
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Bite the bullet
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Piece of cake
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Hold your horses
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Spill the beans
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Hit the nail on the head
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Let the cat out of the bag
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It costs an arm and a leg
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Can’t have your cake and eat it too
These are just idioms, all languages have their own.
Learning English has it’s snags, but it’s not a hard language. That’s a good thing btw.
There are no objectively “hard” or “easy” languages. What makes certain languages “hard” is their difference from one’s native language.
