Re: French and German (jara: An introduction)

>We're taught _måste_ present, _måste_ past, _måsta_ infinitive ('in
Finland only!').

That'd be correct in written and spoken standard finlandsswedish (tho' I
guess our spraach-fascist "Michael Reuter" would cringe at hearing it*).

I have heard "måstade" for past though, but that's from people like me
who've learnt standard finlandssvenska as a D3 (3d dialect). "Måstade" is
acceptable in vernacular Ostrobothnian (incidentally, my D2).

* Michael Reuter is the prescrivist who said we should pronounce the vowel
combination "eu" like they do in Sweden - "ev" (recently been hearing lots
of "eu" on Swedish television though). He got offended when a debater called
him "Revter" though...

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