Re: French and German (jara: An introduction)

Quoting Pavel Iosad <edricson@...>:

> 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.
Probably mental block regarding one's L1, but I can't think of any length
infinitive clusters in Swedish right now. Nothing worse than _att hoppas kunna
äta_, in any gase.

The futurum perfectum can get pretty bad; _han kommer att ha kunnat prova köra
go-kart_.

The tendency for lengthy verb strongs is pretty pangermanic; "I will have
been ..." is only to common in English.

                                                              Andreas

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