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Jan 27 |
awarded | Notable Question |
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Nov 22 |
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Does “Jawohl” carry Nazi connotations? I guess jawohl is much more often used as an interjection or at least the first word in a sentence, at least the Google Ngram of capitalized Jawohl shows much greater frequency than lowercase jawohl. |
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Nov 22 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Aug 22 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Jun 1 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Jan 12 |
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Is it acceptable to omit umlauts and put an extra 'e' instead? edited tags |
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Jan 12 |
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Is it acceptable to omit umlauts and put an extra 'e' instead? edited tags |
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Dec 9 |
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“Es hat”: synonym for “es gibt”? I think there are others, the first I can think of is es liegt. |
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Dec 4 |
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What's the difference between “Dialekt” and “Mundart”? You're saying "Mundart" is used to refer specifically to Swiss German and not generally for arbitrary dialects? |
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Nov 29 |
awarded | Citizen Patrol |
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Nov 27 |
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Tense and Aspect Actually from hanging out in the linguistics Stack Exchange a bit I got the impression that linguists more and more are coming to the conclusion that the line between syntax and morphology is just too fuzzy after all and they're now thinking of them together and calling it morphosyntax. |
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Nov 27 |
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What caused “ss” to gain popularity over “ß” in the 19th century? edited tags |
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Nov 27 |
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Did German borrow any words from Old Prussian? Thanks for providing some important missing information! But the beginning of your post makes it seem like you're correcting a misunderstanding between Prussia and Russia in the other posts where no such misunderstanding occurred. |
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Nov 21 |
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What are “Marmelade”, “Konfitüre”, or “Fruchtaufstrich”? edited tags |
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Nov 21 |
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Tense and Aspect edited tags; link to wikipedia article on grammatical aspect |
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Nov 21 |
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Tense and Aspect @John. You can read about aspect on the Wikipedia article Grammatical aspect. |
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Nov 21 |
suggested | suggested edit on Tense and Aspect |
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Nov 21 |
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Tense and Aspect edited tags |
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Nov 21 |
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Tense and Aspect Another point is that tense is only one property of verbs which affect inflection. Other properties are mood and voice and person and number. This is what makes inflecting languages different to agglutinating languages. For some reason though it seems very common that people misinterpret "tense" to mean "inflected form of a verb". They are related but distinct. |
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Nov 21 |
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Tense and Aspect Who says it's mistaken. These are called "compound tenses". I think you're confusing tense and inflection. Even languages with no inflection at all can have tense. But maybe I'm just having trouble reading what you're trying to say? |
