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Answer: Portuguese has over 63 verb forms for each verb.​ There are 6 verb tens.​.​.​ Stories from your activity Which languages have the most complex verb tenses? Hugo Moraes, Student - Hotel Manager Updated Aug 14, 2019 Portuguese has over 63 verb forms for each verb. There are 6 verb tenses of the indicative mode, plus 3 of the subjunctive mode and one of the imperative. Also there are tw... Read More » Which Indo-European language has the most complex grammar? Grant Lee, BA Honours, History, University of Western Australia (2009) Updated Jan 24, 2020 A somewhat provocative study suggested that Eastern Armenian (արևելահայերեն Arevelahayeren) and German (Deutsch) are among the most unusual human languages. In 2013, lingui... Read More » Are there any languages with more tenses than English? Jonathan Alvarez-Gutierrez, works at Google Written Jun 22, 2014 Short answer: English verbs have 2 tenses. There are certainly languages with more than that. It seems that by "tense" you're actually referring to combinations of tense, ... Read More » Why is the Russian language so poor? It has only three tenses, less than European languages. Gennady Orshansky, Senior Developer at StoneX Group (2018-present) Written May 21, 2019 The language that was used by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov you call it 'poor'. That is classical definition of ignorant question. Except three tenses Russian language ha... Read More » Which modern Indo-European languages have the most complex inflection paradigms? Brian Collins, BA Linguistics & Slavic Languages, University of Washington (2014) Updated Oct 4, 2015 Nouns Polish, standard dialects of Czech, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Eastern Armenian, all have 7 cases for nouns (in contrast Imperial Latin had only 6-ish really 5 productive... Read More » What is the most complex grammar rule in any language? Marc Ettlinger, PhD, Linguistics, UC Berkeley. Updated Oct 11, 2014 There are lots of different ways of defining complexity, so I'll give a few answers, some of which may be a bit counter-intuitive. Information Theoretic Complexity... Read More » Which language has the most complex phonology? Adrian Lin, B.A. Linguistics, specialised in Phonetics & Phonology Written Nov 22, 2014 Oh boy, usually I'd ask you to define 'complex' because a language's phonology itself is complex and multifaceted. I'd ask you if you meant complex in phonemic inventory, i... Read More » Which language has the most complicated grammar? Lara Novakov (ლარა ნოვაკოვი), Speaks Serbian and English Written Feb 25, 2017 Ooooh! A great question. Disclaimer: I'm not a linguist, just someone who is very curious about different languages. I would say that the Native American languages are notor... Read More » What is the language with least grammatical cases? Brian Collins, BA Linguistics & Slavic Languages, University of Washington (2014) Written Jan 28, 2017 "What is the language with least grammatical cases? Either Indo-European, Austronesian, or Afro-Asiatic" Indo-European: In Indo-European languages many Western-most ones have ... Read More » What is the most logical language in the world? Saumya Mehta Written Jan 31, 2018 Well I am surprised that nobody mentioned Sanskrit. Sanskrit is the mother of most of living languages. Everything from sentence formations to converting a verb in past, pr... Read More » Search More on Quora This email was sent by Quora (605 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA 94041). If you don't want to receive this type of email in the future, please unsubscribe.https://www.quora.com/