Re: names for cases
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 28, 2006, 11:54 |
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On 3/28/06, Senno Niegendorff <niegendorff@...> wrote:
> Philip Newton wrote:
> > On 3/28/06, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
> >
> >>[1] Just last night I found a cool thing I may snatch: head-marking
> >>possessive or whatever it should be called, e.g. "the boy his-bicycle".
> >>Colloquial German and Norwegian do this, BTW: "Der Junge sein Fahrrad".
> >
> >
> > "Dem Junge sein Fahrrad" in the varieties I'm aware of (with dative):
> > "to the boy, his bicycle".
>
> Hasn't it to be "Dem Jungen sein Fahrrad"? At least, that's the variant
> I'm familiar with.
D'oh! Of course you're right; I wasn't thinking.
(Or maybe I was confused by mixing it up with "Em Junge sin (singe?)
Fahrrad", which was going through my mind... not sure whether that
corresponds to any actual variety of German, though.)
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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