Timeline for Placement of "gern" in the sentence
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| Jul 9, 2017 at 14:06 | comment | added | tofro | Sorry, but that's nonsense. This question has been asked in 2017. So the answer must be according to the grammatical rules of 2017 - Etymology and pre-2004 dictionaries are entirely irrelevant and were not part of the question. | |
| Jul 9, 2017 at 14:03 | comment | added | fdb | I do not accept the statement that these are “two different words that only look the same”. Etymologically, there is only one word, “gern”. Up until 2004 (very recent in the history of the German language) there was a phrasal verb “gern haben”; only with the 2004 orthographic reform was this reinterpreted as a separable verb “gernhaben”. You will not find this verb in any pre-2004 dictionary. | |
| Jul 8, 2017 at 21:12 | history | edited | tofro | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 8, 2017 at 20:51 | history | answered | tofro | CC BY-SA 3.0 |