Re: Strong/weak verbs, expanded infinitives and applicatives

True or false;
Strong conjugation vs weak conjugation, for verbs,
is like
broken plurals vs sound plurals, for nouns.

??

Tom H.C. in MI

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Carsten Becker <naranoieati@B...>
wrote:
> Hey,
>
> First off, I never understood what exactly "strong" and
> "weak" means regarding nouns and verbs. It looks like all
> strong verbs were irregular, but a former German teacher of
> mine said this was not the case. So I just wanted to ask.
> Secondly, I don't know the definition of is the term
> "erweiterter Infinitiv", i.e. "expanded infinitive".
> Thirdly, are constructions like "um zu" resp. "for ...ing"
> somehow related to applicatives whatever that is? How are
> they called? I know we had that in German lessons, but it's
> 7 years or so and then I wasn't interested in grammar at
> all.
>
> Thanks,
> Carsten
>
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