• boydster
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    15 hours ago

    Ooo help me learn today if you don’t mind… Where does this prefix grouping come from?

    Edit: found it, I think: Chinese?

    • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      Yeah, what they’re saying doesn’t make much sense logically though.

      Men here is 们, the plural marker for people. Wo (我) is I or me, wo+men (我们) we or us, ni (你) is you, ni+men (你们) is you (plural), ta (他/她/它) is he/she/it, and ta+men (+们) is they.

      Some other variants exists, and there’s specifics on the usage. I also missed the tone markers on the pinyin because they’re a pain to type.

      Anyway I’m not sure what joke or point they were trying to make.

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      9 hours ago

      Correct; wo, ni, ta are the singular forms I, you, he/she/it. Adding the -men suffix turns it into the plural we/you/they.

      So literally, ‘we’ are ‘women’.