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

From:J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 2, 2005, 23:57
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 16:26:50 -0500, Rob Haden <magwich78@...> wrote:

>>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?
All I know is there are dialects that use 2pl form for all plurals! :) kry@s: j. 'mach' wust

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