Re: CHAT: Personal Verb Endings in Future German (was CHAT: Contractions in colloquial German)
| From: | Rob Haden <magwich78@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 2, 2005, 21:26 |
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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?
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>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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