Re: OT: German Imperatives

Henrik:
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It is not strange or stilted to say 'Kommen Sie bitte her'.  Only
'hier' is is not the right word.  The verb is 'herkommen'.
 >>

Ah...  Well in that case, I definitely did misanalyze the construction.
I was assuming a construction like this:

V-inf./imp. 3sg.Form.Pron. Adv. "Please"

This is the way I think you'd do it *if* it were that way.  However,
you've shown that it is a different construction altogether, using
not a verb and a separate adverb, but a verb with a separable
prefix.  That, of course, would put the adverb in a different place:

V-inf./imp. 3sg.Form.Pron. "Please" V-Pref.

So that was my error.  I didn't know about the verb "herkommen".
Now I know, though!

-David
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