Re: Some weird verbs in Ayeri
| From: | Carsten Becker <carbeck@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 15, 2007, 8:13 |
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Good morning Henrik,
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 01:54:21 +0200, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
wrote:
>'gerne' is an adverb in German and 'to like' is an auxiliary in
>English. So in a) you conjugate 'to swim' while in b) you conjugate
>'to like'.
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>Is this satisfactory?
I think so. Though note that adverbs usually go after verbs. French has some
adjective that go before nouns, too, although the usual order is noun-
adjective, so I don't see a problem there. It'd be interesting to find out how it
has become that way, that is, for both languages ;-)
Regards
Carsten
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