Re: Save of the dative, the genitive's is already dead!
| From: | Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 12, 2005, 10:13 |
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On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 09:51:10 +0200, Jean-François Colson
<fa597525@...> wrote:
>Perhaps because "weil" is a CO-ORDINATING conjunction like und, aber, oder,
>etc.
It has *become* that during the last 10 or so years.
>In Dutch there're two words to translate "because": "want" and "omdat".
>"Want" is a co-ordinating conjunction ==> SVO
>whereas "omdat", which is a pronominal adverb, is used as a subordinating
>conjunction ==> SOV.
>Is there something similar in German?
As has been said, German has "da", "weil" and "wegen". Though "da" and
"weil" are only synonyms. Still, only "weil" is infected with the word order
change. "Wegen" triggers genitive case actually, but as I said, only few
care about that nowadays.
CB