- In Tzeltal, the general word for EAT is TUN, but it changes depending in what it is eaten: K’UX for beans, LO’ for bananas, WE’ for tortillas and bread, TI’ for meat and chilis, TZ’U’ for sugarcane and UCH’ for corngruel and liquids.
- In Carrier, the general word for beaver is TSA, but a small beaver is a TSAYAZ; a mid-size beaver is a TSATUL; a large beaver is a TSATSUL; a young beaver is a TSACHENISBOO’; an adult male beaver is a TSATA’; a female beaver is a TSA’AT; a mother beaver is a TSADIYA; the foreman beaver is a TSACHO; and the list goes on…
- In Mohawk, the word KA’NIKONRIIO, righteousness, is also used as a word for law, beautiful or good.
- In Mandarin, it is optional to indicate when an event occurred, and couldn’t be included in the verb. And position in the sentence governs interpretation.
- In most Southeast Asian languages, the meaning of a sentence is highly context-dependent.
- In Russian, the verb codifies tense, gender and quantity. Also, there are masculine days of the week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday) and feminine days of the week (Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday).
- In Turkish, the verb specify whether the event was witnessed or if it is a rumour.
- Riau Indonesian is an extreme case with no articles, neither inflection or tone, hardly no [sic] tense marking and a third person pronoun that is neutral to both gender and number.
- In English, there is no grammatical gender system, unlike most languages.
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