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June 27

Spanish verbs

Does Spanish have any verbs ending in -güer or -güir? --40bus (talk) 13:55, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

Creo que no hay ningunos. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 15:00, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

Two examples from Google translate:

se quedó sin saber que otra cosa podría argüir

es posible argüir de la verdad de enunciados singulares la falsidad de enunciados universales — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23A8:0:3D01:64FC:8808:BCB4:3993 (talk) 17:29, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

You're right. See[1]. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 17:49, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

Dutch vowels

Does Dutch have any verb infinitives or noun plurals with a double vowel? --40bus (talk) 13:55, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

wikt:Category:Dutch noun forms has lots, from a-capellakoortjes to zwerfwoorden. 46.31.102.126 (talk) 15:42, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

Also many verb infinitives: verwoorden, haasten, naasten. Dutch spelling has a regular system to double vowels (consonants too). PiusImpavidus (talk) 22:19, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

And are there any such words with double vowels followed just by single consonant? --40bus (talk) 13:59, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

wikt:aanaardingen from the link just above. Have you even tried clicking it yourself? 185.130.86.86 (talk) 15:28, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

That can happen when that consonant is at the end of a word with another word following in a compound (otherwise it cannot happen in plural nouns or infinitives, as they would either get an -en suffix, leading to singling of the vowel, or a consonant suffix, giving two consonants) or at the end of a prefix. e can be doubled at the end of such a segment without a following consonant, so nouns ending in -ee with the plural suffix -s also get this: plees. Dutch spelling is quite regular in this. Such words are common and new ones can be created on the fly: zaaiaardes (i acts as a consonant there), meereizen, aaneten. PiusImpavidus (talk) 16:36, 2 July 2023 (UTC)