Re: French and German (jara: An introduction)
| From: | Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 6, 2003, 16:29 |
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>There are six forms of 'red': rot, rote, roten, roter, rotem, rotes,
>of which one is easy: 'rot' ([Ro:t] to clarify the pronunciation),
>this occurs only in predicative position and does not have any concord
>constraints: 'Das Buch ist rot.' - 'The book is red.'
I remain unconvinced that this is an issue for all non-native speakers. I
actually found this rather easy to manipulate due to having studied Latin
(yes, I know they aren't directly related, bu the melange of differring
endings for nouns and adjectives is a similar mechanism to my mind).
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