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Re: French and German (jara: An introduction)

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Friday, June 6, 2003, 18:59
> PS: You may say that there are only two adjective modes, which is true > for the *forms*, i.e. with all other categories equal, there are only > two forms for the three modes, but weak/strong mode sometimes uses the > weak, sometimes the strong form, depending on the other categories > values: > > dat.neut.sg: > mode 1: manch rotem Buch > mode 2: einem roten Buch \ same > mode 3: dem roten Buch / > > nom.neut.sg: > mode 1: manch rotes Buch \ > mode 2: ein rotes Buch / same > mode 3: das rote Buch
This one of the few of the oddities of all this that have never caused me any trouble to speak of; no ending on _ein_ -> strong adjective; ending on _ein_ -
> weak adjective. If only the rest of German was that simple.
Andreas

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