Yiddish Reflexive (was: Re: Diglossia (was Re: Nur-ellen in the world of Brithenig) )

On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:31:38 -0400 nicole perrin <nicole.eap@...>
writes:
> No, it's not reflexive.  Although, I would say it differently than
> Robert did -- Ich lerne seit zwei Jahren Deutsch (or in my case seit
> drei Jahren) of course this could be completely wrong (I'm good in
> French, not so hot in German) but what really surprises me is that
> you
> say above "Ix hob gelernt zix" using the German third person singular
> reflexive pronoun in a first-person-singular-subject sentence, but I
> don't know anything about Yiddish so this could be perfectly correct
> and
> an interesting development.  Also, I take it from the above sentence
> that Yiddish has different word order than German as well?
>
> Nicole
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What i learned is that _zix_ is *the* reflexive pronoun in Yiddish, used
for all persons:

ix lern zix
du lernst zix
er / zi / es lernt zix
mir lernen zix
ir lernt zix
zei lernen zix


-Stephen (Steg)
 "my soul has grown deep like the rivers."  ~  langston hughes