Re: Two pairs of technical terms

Stefano MAC:GREGOR <esperantujo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Joachim Pense wrote:

Some nouns appear to conjugate for tense in Esperanto, like
"prezidinto" for "ex-president', "prezidanto" for "president", and
"prezidonto" for "president-elect", but this is just an example of a
participle conjugated for tense, mutated into a noun.


And conjugating nouns for tense is normal and productive in Volapük.

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