Re: USAGE: "I want crazy two years ago"

Skrivet en doa Andreas Johansson:
> Quoting Michael Adams <abrigon@...>:
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>> Well, look at German, and see where Go comes from or could be.
>>
>> Ge = verb notice or something like that.
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>> Ich habe Gesprocken = I have spoken.
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> "Ich habe gesprochen" - note spelling and lack of capitalization of
> "gesprochen".
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>> Ich Ge = I go?
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> "Ich gehe" = I go
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> The verb _gehen_ (1st sg ind. _gehe_) is NOT to be identified with the prefix
> _ge-_ seen on past participles like _gesprochen_. In fact, you get the prefix
> on the past part. of _gehen_ itself: _gegangen_.
>
>                                                    Andreas
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In gothic (not the ancestor of German, but probably close) ga- was a
perfective prefix.  German associated with past participle but that's a
recent development. To go was gangan in both gothic and High Old German,
gan in Old English

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