Re: strong verbs in French?
| From: | René Uittenbogaard <ruittenb@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 7, 2006, 17:09 |
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On 12/7/06, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
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> René Uittenbogaard <ruittenb@...> writes:
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> > "strong" verbs (helfen - hielf - geholfen).
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> That's helfen - *half* - geholfen.
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> (helpen - hielp -- geholpen in Dutch IIRC? :-))
D'oh! You're right, I thought the Dutch vowel pattern was valid for
German "helfen" also.
Thanks for the correction.
On 12/7/06, Eugene Oh <un.doing@...> wrote:
> Does vouler - les voeux count?
I don't know.. We have of course pouvoir - je peux etc. but there is
less resemblance with Germanic stems where the stem vowel changes and
the opening and closing consonants remain the same. And I'd like to
use them as examples for some francophones I know who are currently
learning Dutch.
Maybe also:
mourir - la mort - le meurtre
René
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