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Rules for keeping vowels short/long
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In the previous paragraphs, you have learnt how to distinguish between Internal link long and Internal link short vowel words.

In general, long vowel words should stay long, regardless of any changes in the word (e.g. a singular noun turning into a plural, or when you conjugate a verb's infinitive). The same goes for short vowel words.

In the following sections, we use the example of a plural and a singular noun to illustrate how a word maintains its long or short vowel. Of course, this mechanism applies to all kinds of words (verbs, adjectives, adverbs, etc.).
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