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Re: Weekly Vocab 6: to know / German

From:Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>
Date:Sunday, May 11, 2003, 14:11
>The former needs an object. "Ich kann es auf Englisch" with the <es> >mostly reduced to [s]. > >The second example requires the definite article, in this case combined >with the preposition: "Ich muss ins Büro." (actually <in das>)
My mistake on the _in_, but I've often heard "ich kann" rather than "ich kann es" or "ich kann's". _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail