Re: The Shift of Antecedent Prepositions to Suffixes ????

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 23:56:47 +0100, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:

>Hi!
>
>caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> writes:
>>...
>> Another possible meaning came to me.  The ball is rolling under the
>> table but never comes out from under the table. How would one express
>> the idea "The ball rolls around under the table"?  Let me make a stab
>> at it: der Ball rollt unter den Tisch herum.
>
>Almost, only it's not a destination now, but a location, so dative
>case is used: '...unter *dem* Tisch herum'.
You could also say "umher" instead of "herum".

>> Let's see if my two years in Germany were not for naught!
>
>Definitely not! :-)
Some more ball&table fun:
Der Ball rollt den Tisch entlang - The ball rolls on top of the table, and
the table is not inclined.
Der Ball rollt unter dem Tisch her - The balls rolls under the table and
reappears on the other side.
"Der Ball rollt durch den Tisch durch" sounds a little strange, you'd
probably rather say "Der Ball rollt duch die Tischbeine durch", meaning the
same as the sentence before.

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