to me, they seem the same, but surely there’s a subtle nuance.
like, for example, i’ve heard: “i thought he died.” and “i thought he was dead” and they seem like synonyms.
to me, they seem the same, but surely there’s a subtle nuance.
like, for example, i’ve heard: “i thought he died.” and “i thought he was dead” and they seem like synonyms.
Regarding the nuance part I feel like people tend to use “died” when it happened recently or when they’re still grieving and “dead” when they just want to state the fact. English is my second language too though so I might be imagining it 😅