Re: CHAT: Personal Verb Endings in Future German (was CHAT: Contractions in colloquial German)

Hi!

Rob Haden <magwich78@...> writes:
>...
> My bad, I meant to use the standard 2pl form.  Do any colloquial German
> dialects use the 1pl/3pl form for the 2pl also?
Well, almost: Western Palatinian usually (I don't know whether it's
universal) uses the 2pl form for 3pl, too.  Or baybe the rule is
simply that 3sg has no ablaut, but however, it comes out as 'er
fallt'/'ihr fallt'.

Now, when people with this dialect speak High German, it is not
uncommon to overgeneralise and use 'er fällt'/'ihr fällt' (from
'fallen').  I've seen it an university flyers around here.

**Henrik