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

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Saturday, January 22, 2005, 22:56
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'.
> Let's see if my two years in Germany were not for naught!
Definitely not! :-) **Henrik

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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>