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Can you give me an example?

Edit: Ok thanks guys, I got it :D

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Maybe

  • I do like cats
  • Do I like cats?

but taken to the extreme?

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Can you give me an example - Question

You can give me an example - Affirmation

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  • Hij schreef een bericht. (He wrote a message)

  • Schreef hij een bericht? (Did he wrote a message?)

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Zeg eens, waarom wil je zo graag met een CEO slapen?

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Fuck Spez daarom

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I know you already got it but a few others came to my mind:

Finnish, which not a tonal language:

  • Sinä pidät kahvista. (“You like coffee.”)
  • Pidätkö kahvista? (“You like coffee?”)

Japanese:

  • Anata wa kōhī ga sukidesu. (“You like coffee.”)
  • Kōhī wa sukidesu ka? (“You like coffee?”)

I think you’ll find the pattern of question words/suffixes in nearly every language that is not explicitly tonal.

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Yeah that’s initially why I thought there was no difference to Spanish. But the difference is Spanish actually doesn’t have an option where you switch subject and verb. Didn’t know that :)

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Oh. Very good point. I did not know that either.

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