Re: French and German (jara: An introduction)

Hello,

> Hm, plurals probably. No, wait, those abominable verbal
> agglomerations at the
> end of sentences! Half the time I'm so into those dastardly
> infinitives I
> forget to inflect the last one when it should be inflected,
> and the other half
> I'm so scared to do this that I inflect it despite the presence of an
> inflected verb earlier in the sentence - half an hour back or so!
My German teacher (a former, ahem, diplomat (but I really suppose he was
in the KGB)) used to say that German is awful for the interpreter in
diplomatic service. He would say 'We are so glad to meet the
representatives of your great country and so on for an hour... nicht!'

Re infinitives, isn't that a feature of Swedish, only that it's not at
the end? I think Swedish can have a goodly string of infinitives as
well, and I have a hell of a time trying to remember which one wants an
'att' and which doesn't.

Pavel
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Pavel Iosad               pavel_iosad@mail.ru

Nid byd, byd heb wybodaeth
                 --Welsh saying

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