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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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Moderator
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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Senior Member
There is another form too:
ex. Sunken treasure.
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Member
"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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Senior Member
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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Senior Member
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.