Translation
long
Examples
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The day was long.
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We talked for a long time.
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The night was short.
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How long is the word?
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After a long year he came back.
is one of the roots that makes the case for - on its own: you never learn a word for short, you just say , and the same trick covers , and a few hundred others. Stretches of time take the accusative without a preposition, so needs no word for for. The adverb means for a long time, and means for ages now.
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