Timeline for 'es' as a "delayed subject"?
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| Dec 29, 2019 at 17:30 | vote | accept | Satish Vasan | ||
| Jun 2, 2017 at 10:36 | comment | added | Martin Rosenau | According to our German teacher (in the 1990s when I went to school) the subject in sentences like "Hier wird viel gemeckert" really is the word "es", even if it is not written. However in the case of "Es fallen die Regentropfen" the word "es" cannot be the subject. Otherwise you would have to say: "Es fällt die Regentropfen". | |
| Nov 21, 2014 at 0:05 | history | edited | Emanuel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 20, 2014 at 21:51 | history | answered | Emanuel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |