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Re: French and German (jara: An introduction)

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Friday, June 6, 2003, 21:49
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From: "Pavel Iosad" <edricson@...>
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Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 10:36 PM
Subject: Re: French and German (jara: An introduction)


> Hello, > > > > Which just goes back to the poverty of tenses in > > Proto-Germanic. We had > > to > > > construct the missing ones by stringing verbs together. :) > > > > What's wrong with "I will have been", anyway? How else can > > we express the > > Passive Future Perfect? > > Umm, _actus/acta erô_? ;-) OK, that's _I will have done_, but doesn't > matter a lot anyway.
Is that Latin? According to my dictionary, it means "I will have been done" |actus erit| would make more sense..."It will have been done".
> Pavel > -- > Pavel Iosad pavel_iosad@mail.ru > > Nid byd, byd heb wybodaeth > --Welsh saying >

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