It's all very understandable if you know German. The change of vowel comes from German. For example, foot is Fuß. Feet is Füße. The umlaut over the 'u' is the change of vowel. English: man. German: Mann. English: men. German: Männer. Again, the umlaut in German is mirrored in English by the change from 'a' to 'e'. However, I admit it's not always so. In German, book is 'Buch', and it changes to Bücher in the plural, but in English we say 'books', not 'beek'. Languages develop naturally, and there are inconsistencies!
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It's very understandable! Thanks for explaining😊 That's so interesting!!
I think you know this but let me point for other people: it doesn’t come from German, but from Old English. It’s a common characteristic of Germanic languages.
@@anubisu1024 Yes! I was trying to simplify things, but you're right. English didn't come directly from German, but they both came from the same source. The 's' for plurals came from French, I think. The mystery is where did the 's' come from? It's not from Latin or the Germanic languages.