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Re: Weekly Vocab 6: to know

From:Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 7, 2003, 22:31
>German _können_ (_koennen_) isn't really a separate word for this - it's >also >the modal "can"*. For the record, you can do a very similar triad in >Swedish:
Formally, yes, but not always in dialects. I know native Germans who say things like "Ich kann auf Englisch." or "Ich muss in Buero." _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

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Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Daniel Ryan Prohaska <daniel@...>Weekly Vocab 6: to know / German