It’s odd that such a basic language construct would be the same across Spanish, Dutch, Arabic, Hebrew, Korean, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese, French, Russian, Indonesian, German, Maldivian, Malay, Urdu, Punjabi, and Filipino and others.
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In a lot of those languages, it’s not “native” and is a relatively recent though pervasive (to the extent that in some, you’ll find native speakers unaware it’s a) loanword.
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