Timeline for Word order of ideas in genitive case
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| Nov 29, 2021 at 8:26 | history | edited | Hubert Schölnast | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 29, 2021 at 2:39 | vote | accept | Brian | ||
| Nov 28, 2021 at 16:22 | comment | added | RDBury | @Björn Friedrich: Comparing English and German can be problematic here. While you can often translate "of" to the genitive case, you can't necessarily go the other direction and "the car of the man" borders on being ungrammatical. English requires the "'s" possessive before the noun, so "the man's car" but never "the car man's". Meanwhile the "of" possessive always goes after the noun, so "at the foot of the mountain" but never "at the of the mountain foot". In general I think "of" works more like von than the genitive. | |
| Nov 28, 2021 at 15:23 | comment | added | Björn Friedrich | Quote: "In English, we first say owner then owned". This is not true, as this example shows: "The car of the man is new." Similarly, there is no general order in German: "Roberts Auto ist neu." | |
| Nov 28, 2021 at 15:22 | answer | added | planetmaker | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 28, 2021 at 14:56 | history | asked | Brian | CC BY-SA 4.0 |