Re: French and German (jara: An introduction)

Hello,

> >That would be _har bort_, that's not a common form. Swedish
> modals tend to
> be
> lacking certain forms, which brings us to _måste_, whose infinitive
> (_måsta_)
> only exists in some northern dialects. For many people,
> _måste_ is the only
> from of this verb (I have three; _måste_, _har måst_, _hade måst_).
>
> You don't have a clean past, or does it coincide with present?
We're taught _måste_ present, _måste_ past, _måsta_ infinitive ('in
Finland only!').

[...]
> > > > The futurum perfectum can get pretty bad; _han kommer att ha
> > > > kunnat prova köra go-kart_.
[...]
> I wonder whether forms like kunnat - blackout, can't recall
> their name -
> actually could be counted as a kind of infinitive (with
> relative tense).
_att ha kunnat_ is certainly a present (grammeme of absolute/shifter
tense) perfect (grammeme of aspect) infinitive.

_kunnat_ per se is called, IIRC, _supinum_.

Pavel
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