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What do you call words that when they are stress in the first syllable they are nouns but if they are stressed on the second syllable they are verbs?

Anonymous

∙ 14y ago

Updated: 11/18/2022

There are many such English words. Affect, content, detail, perfume, permit etc, are nouns when accented on the first, and verbs when accented on the second syllable. If there is name for this kind of word, I do not know it.

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∙ 14y ago

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