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coliveira on Sept 6, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: How would you say “She said goodbye too many times...

Latin is dramatically efficient in expressing meaning because it has a grammar that is several times more complex than english. On the other hand, most of latin grammar can be thought as adding prefixes and suffixes to root words.

nashashmi on Sept 6, 2023 [–]

I think what makes Latin so succinct are the 48 forms of a verb. And the 5 forms a of a noun just in singular form.

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