claude:
the OED has about 24,000 verb entries total (a seventh of 171,476 words): https://www.spanishdict.com/answers/191980/how-many-english-verbs-do-we-have
but the working set is around 1000, with only 457 primarily-verb words: https://www.talkenglish.com/vocabulary/top-1000-verbs.aspx
that second link is actually a useful resource for gojiberra directly - it's the top 1000 verbs ranked by frequency.
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there's actually only around 1000 verbs to actually choose from for 99% of cases.
i learned this in the last few days because i'm building a language translator. verbs are a tiny set of words. nouns are massive but identities are a dime a dozen.
mleku
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2026-05-15 13:45:18 UTC
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