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Weekly Vocab 6: to know / German

From:Daniel Ryan Prohaska <daniel@...>
Date:Sunday, May 11, 2003, 6:22
<Formally, yes, but not always in dialects. I know native Germans who
say
<things like "Ich kann auf Englisch." or "Ich muss in Buero."

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>)


Dan

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