Re: French and German (jara: An introduction)

Henrik Theiling scripsit:

> I think the problem that never disappears for most non-native speakers
> are mistakes with the determiners and the adjective endings.  The
> latter seem to be very, very hard it remember.  My theory is that the
> discrepancy between number of grammatical positions and number of
> endings is simply too confusing:
Presumably the very low functional load of these adjective endings means
that errors don't normally interfere with intelligibility, though.
How obtrusive is it to make such an error, compared with (say) getting
a noun in the wrong gender or with the wrong plural, both of which are
also quite irregular?

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