Sentence examples for set of endings from inspiring English sources

Indirect support for a common three-way set of endings is also provided by Ugaritic.

Most Arabic nouns have a full tripartite set of endings that agree closely with the case endings of Akkadian.

In addition to this tripartite set of endings, however, there is a set of stems in Arabic (the so-called diptotic stems) that have endings distinguishing only the nominative case and a general accusative and genitive case.

Verbs in the stative aspect substituted a distinctive set of endings for those of the primary set but apparently used the imperative and secondary endings in the usual way to form a stative imperative and a stative past indicative.

The imperative mood has its own set of endings.

The same basic method used to conjugate the present tense is also used for each of these tenses - you simply take the stem of the infinitive verb and add a particular set of endings, which vary depending on the subject pronoun.

In the imperfective and perfective aspects there were two sets of endings, distinguishing two voices: active, in which typically the subject was not affected by the action, and mediopassive, in which typically the subject was affected, directly or indirectly.

The morphology of the Altaic languages is simple, exhibiting little if any irregularity (e.g., Turkish has only one irregular verb, 'to be') or suppletion (as in English went as the past form of go) and no distinct classes of noun or verb stems ("declensions" and "conjugations") that require special sets of endings.

Ms. Kusama, the Japanese artist, now in her 80s, has stimulated a very contemporary set of nerve endings.

Verbs retain a set of personal endings related to those of other Indo-European languages, but a series of prefixes and infixes (word elements inserted within a word), as well as auxiliary verbs, are used instead of a single complex inflectional system in order to mark tense, mood, voice, and the negative.

Since he came over to the paper from Newsweek, in 1965 — he had told Katharine Graham at lunch that he would give his "left one" to be managing editor — Bradlee had guided the Post with the most exquisitely tuned set of nerve endings in the business.