| 11. | A number of Arabic borrowings in English are actually lexicalized verbal nouns, or closely related forms.
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| 12. | The only suffix differences with the modern dialects were in the form of the plural and verbal noun suffixes.
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| 13. | The verbal noun may be modified by adjectives, such as'have a good look'in English.
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| 14. | The associated participles and verbal nouns of a verb are the primary means of forming new lexical nouns in Arabic.
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| 15. | Both forms are used with the verbal noun ( equivalent to the English present participle ) to create compound tenses.
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| 16. | In all dialects except Kalau Kawau Ya, the verb negative is the nominalised privative form of the verbal noun.
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| 17. | Nominal forms then follow according to their length ( including those verbal nouns and participles which merit separate listings ).
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| 18. | The imperfect stem is the verbal noun ( see above ) plus the suffix "-n ".
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| 19. | English has analogous types of verbal nouns ( truly verbal kinds gerunds and infinitives and deverbal nouns ).
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| 20. | Verbal nouns are uncontroversially nouns, having only minor syntactic differences to distinguish them from pure nouns like'mountain '.
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