littlepond wrote:so, are the "-mine" words verbs or nouns?
They are nouns made from verbs - cf English "swimming", as in "swimming is fun".
And as far as I know, there's nothing wrong with "eksimine on inimlik". To my ear there's a very slight difference between eksida and eksimine, as the first one describes what you
do, and the latter one describes the
action itself.
Maybe your teacher meant the -ma forms of verbs? Like ujuma vs ujuda - I don't think there's really any other difference than that some verbs require you to use ujuma and some require ujuda.
Btw, is the word order really
eksida on inimlik? My heavily biased sense of how language should work screams
say "inimlik on eksida!!1" but I don't think I can trust this sense with, well, any language.
Also,
I thought that to construct a noun, one adds an "s"
What is this? Can you give me an example? (I haven't studied Estonian for long, so I'm just curious if there's something new for me to learn.
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