Re: French and German (jara: An introduction)

Hello,

> > 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 [c]ase.
OK, there's _bruka_ which could go well here, and you could add a thing
like _måste_ or whatnot. (has _bör_ a perfect? ;-))

> The futurum perfectum can get pretty bad; _han kommer att ha
> kunnat prova köra go-kart_.
See? That’s' what I mean.

Pavel
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Pavel Iosad               pavel_iosad@mail.ru

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