Re: Have Had, Had Have

Philip Newton wrote:

>On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 07:44:51 +0100, Joe <joe@...> wrote:
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>>Now, the construction 'I'd've had to have eaten' is perfectly
>>grammatical to me.  It's the  perfect of 'I would have to eat'.  (In
>>French, 'j'aurais dû manger', German, 'ich hätte essen gemusst').
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>That's not grammatical for this German speaker - I'd make it "ich
>hätte essen müssen", which I'd translate as "I should have eaten" or
>perhaps "I had to have eaten".
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Okay, I wasn't actually sure of the past participle of 'müssen', you
see, so I looked it up, and my dictionary claimed it was 'gemusst'.  Or
is the conditional perfect different from the normal one?

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