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

From:Rob Haden <magwich78@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 2, 2005, 21:26
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 19:11:58 +0100, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
wrote:

>On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:17:45 -0500, Rob Haden <magwich78@...> wrote: >> What do y'all think? > >a) Why do you put the personal pronoun after the verb in order to fuse >it into an ending? The usual position is before the verb.
I guess I assumed that, at a later date, the VSO word-order for interrogative and imperative sentences would also become default (at least colloquially) for declarative sentences as well.
>b) Why do you use the 1pl/3pl form also for 2pl? It usually ends in >-t, though without the umlaut that may come in 2sg/3sg form (e.g. >lesen: du liest/er liest but ihr lest; fallen: du fällst/er fällt but >ihr fallt).
My bad, I meant to use the standard 2pl form. Do any colloquial German dialects use the 1pl/3pl form for the 2pl also? - Rob

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