Re: Of accents & dialects
From: | Lars Mathiesen <thorinn@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 16:32 |
2008/10/21 Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:
> Incidentally standard Swedish, Norwegian and Danish all
> have extended the old 3rd singular _-r_ ta all persons
> of both numbers, while some traditional dialects retain
> more or less of the old person-number endings. OTOH I once
> heard a wan speaking dialect-influenced standard Swedish
> use _-r_ in the imperative too, which sounded quaint to
> me.
Well, before the singular forms were extended to the plural in
standard written Danish (about 100 years ago), the plural of the
imperative ended in -r. Did any Swedish dialects have something
similar?
--
Lars