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    DKoor's Avatar Banned
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    OK I've noticed that there are two past tense variation of the word "sink" (not the kitchen thingy but the ship-related word ) , that is "sunk" and "sank".

    Can anyone explain the difference between these two terms?
    I think I'm gonna use it extensively in CoD .
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    willyvic's Avatar Moderator
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    Perhaps:

    I sink a sub.
    I sank a sub.
    The sub was sunk.

    or

    Dkoor sank the sub.
    The submarine was sunk by Dkoor

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    There is another form too:

    ex. Sunken treasure.
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    "Sank" is the past tense, used on its own as in willy's example. "Sunk" is used with an auxialiry verb like "be" or "have".

    I was taught in school that all English verbs have three tenses (sink - sank - sunk), but that for most of them, the second and third forms are similar. For example all the verbs that acquire the -ed ending would fall in this category. So one would have

    sink - sank - sunk

    corresponding to

    make - made - made
    come - came - come
    do - did - done
    like - liked- liked

    etc.

    The third form can also be used as a adjective.

    There are other verbs that follow the same pattern as sink (eg. drink - drank - drunk).
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    sank is the past tense of sink.

    Sunk is the inverse reflexive homogenized form of the verb sinketh.

    Geez, if you had a cromulent understanding of English you would know that.
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    D/K you should try the words that are spelled the same but Mean entirely different things. They really make me Mean.
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    At least we don't have bloody illogical noun genders, and most of our plurals and verb tenses are fairly regular.

    Looking at you, other European langauages, especially German.
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    Thanks I think I got it .
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    i was with a girl in the sea side

    she asked me how do you like this beach?

    i said oh i think your hot, ask those sea men

    gotta love sexspear language
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    I drank the beer to get drunk.
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