| What other languages contain homophones in them besides English, Spanish, German,...
...and Japanese? English was my first language. It has a ton of homophones in it in regular words in normal tense while others in past tense. Spanish is my second language even though I'm not very good at speaking all Spanish since it's not my native language and it mostly derived from Latin and it could be some Italian, and I only know that the palabras "ciento" and "siento" are prounced the same. Ciento meaning 100 and siento meaning sorry as in "Lo siento." I only know a couple of German homophones like the worts nacht and nackt. The nacht kind of nokt means night and the nackt kind of nokt means naked. Homophones in German and Japanese can sound a bit strange because they might cause problems in the meaning of the sentence when they're spoken. Ex) Ich bin eine nacht person which means I'm a night person and Ich bin eine nackt person which means I'm a naked person. Here's one that's not so much tougher in the meaning of the sentence in German. Ex) Ich bekommen nackt an warm nachts which means I get
naked on warm or hot nights. Japanese has some homophones like ie which means house and ei which means ray, victory, sharp, triumph, manta ray, surplus, skate, stingray, leftover, remainder, residue, remnant, and wrap. Also kemono and kimono are homophones too. Kemono means animal and kimono is that Japanese robe made out of silk and iron maybe. Not sure what it's made out of. Also tojikomeru and tojikumeru seem like homophones again to me so correct me if I'm wrong. Also these Japanese homophones can cause some trouble in the meaning of the sentences too. Ex) Watashi kawaigaru watashi-no kemonos which means I love my animals and Watashi kawaigaru watashi-no kimonos which means I love my kimonos. To fix this problem you could say in Japanese this: Watashi kawaigaru haiyo: watashi-no kimonos oyobi karera are so: kawaii which means I love wearing my kimonos and they are so cute. Adding words like haiyo: which means wearing won't confuse the sentence at all since you can't wear animals.
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