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Re: Cookbook

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Friday, July 6, 2001, 21:48
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Christian Thalmann wrote:

>Thus the classical recipe begins with "Man nehme ein halbes Dutzend >Eier...", which would have to be translated as "That one take half a >dozen eggs..." (dang, it's hard to translate subjunctive into English). =\ >
You did it perfectly! "Take" is the 3rd s. pres. subjunctive of _take_. Padraic.
>-- Christian Thalmann