@BoraMac
>> How do you define verbs?
Anything that's conjugated with for the past/present/future (or that is to say...the aspect equivalents)... Kumain and kainin would count as two verbs.
@akosikoneho
I've thought about a list of all variations of a various roots...but I think that might be inefficient as a first step...
It seems to me that most roots among the most commonly used verbs, only use a single affix almost exclusively...so it might be most efficient to learn the 700-800 variations in common usage first, and then build out from there.
For example...I just ran a test with the top 800 verbs by frequency in our 23 million word corpus, and there are some interesting results...
1.) The 800 verbs cover between 73-78% of all verb instances in the 23 million word corpus.
2.) Looking at the roots of the verbs in that list:
- There are 445 roots used to make the top 800 most frequently used verbs.
- 267 of those roots appear in only in ONE verb conjugation type in that top 800 list.
- 99 of the roots occur in exactly two verbs only.
- Only 79 roots appear in three or more conjugation types in the top 800 list.
3.) The roots with the most variations are: sama (13 variations in the list), gawa (8), labas (7), kita (7) and usap (7).