tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 01 12:21:20 1996
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Re: My two cents.
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: My two cents.
- Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 15:18:39 -0500 (EST)
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Jarno Peschier" at Mar 31, 96 12:11:35 pm
Could you guys move this obviously German related discussion to
Email and get it off this Klingon list?
charghwI'
According to Jarno Peschier:
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>
> >>By the way, "nirgends" isn't obviously a locative; it looks to me like
> >>it's a simple direct object. In order to test this theory, I need to
> >>know how to say some things in German:
> >>(1) "I eat a box." (2) "I eat in a box." (3) "I live in a box."
> >
> >(1)"Ich es einer Dose" Not to sure about "einer".
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> Isn't Dose feminine (i.e. die Dose)? Then it would be "Ich esse eine Dose".
>
> >(2)"Ich es im einer Dose" dito.
>
> That's "in", not "im". So the sentence becomes "Ich esse in einer Dose".
>
> >(3)"Ich wohne im einer Dose" As I said at the top.
>
> Same here.
>
> If the noun after in is masculin, then it become "in dem [noun]", often
> abbreviated to "im [noun]".
>
> Qapla'
> peSHIr
>
> Jarno Peschier, [email protected], 2:2802/245.1@Fido
> 162:100/100.1@Agora, 74:3108/102.1@QuaZie, 27:2331/214.1@SigNet
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> What was was, before was was was? Before was was was, was was is.
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