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Pejorative gerund
Take a look at the following words:
Gelaufe,
Gelerne,
Geschufte,
Geballer,
Geschredder,
Geschwätz,
Gelaber
There seems to be an construction one could call "pejorative gerund", which ...
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Tense and Aspect
Most linguists recognize two tenses in English, present and past, although other verb forms are often mistakenly described as tenses. I walk is present tense and I walked is past tense. A form such as ...
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Is there a German word to describe sentence parts which are delimited by commas?
Is there a general word to describe a sentence part, such as a relative clause, but also an infinitive clause?
Gibt es ein allgemeines Wort, um Satzteile – zum Beispiel einen Relativsatz, aber auch ...
