word makes me idk

[fallow relic]

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word makes me idk

[mossy seal]

Yo @indigo ingot

I do not understand the question

Know / knowledge?

[fiery jetty]

I don’t understand it either. What do you mean by “get words”?

[shy torrent]

I believe he's speaking of nominalizations, specifically the suffixes for verb-to-noun.

[fiery jetty]

Not sure how much of a pattern he’s going to find there, it’s pretty random

[shy torrent]

There are patterns, but they're not worth learning. Just memorize the noun forms whenever you need to use them. I'll say this, however:

-oir verbs' nouns are just the infinitives: le pouvoir, le vouloir, le devoir, le savoir.

For regular verbs, the most common are -ion / -tion / -ation, -age, and -ment. They don't always pattern their English cognates, but they often do. For example, "diviser" becomes "la division," but "rejeter" becomes "le rejet."