Re: Question about German

Hi!

"Douglas Koller, Latin & French" <latinfrench@...> writes:
> Question, native speakers or others:
>
> Say you take a word like 'du"ster', 'dark, gloomy', and make it
> comparative, 'du"sterer', 'gloomier'. Then plunk it in front or a
> masculine noun following the indefinite article: 'ein du"stererer
> Tag'. That's three 'er's in a row. Do the natives avoid such forms as
> clunky in style.
It does sound a bit funny, you get the impression that you have to
start counting to interpret it correctly, but the form is acceptable.

However, it is permitted to drop the `e' in the stem to make it less
strange.  This is always permitted to drop this `e' anyway if -er is
the ending and another vowel is added thereafter:

ein d

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