Timeline for How to understand the word order in this sentence?
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| Jun 6, 2022 at 17:09 | comment | added | RDBury | German is called a V2 language, but it really depends on sentence or clause type. Declarative statements, open questions and independent clauses are V2, imperatives, closed questions are V1, subordinate clauses are VL, and there are cases where there is no finite verb at all, which I call V0. | |
| Jun 6, 2022 at 15:54 | comment | added | DonHolgo | Perhaps it's more useful to say that the subordinate clause occupies the first position of the main clause in these examples. This way the rule that the finite verb comes on the second position still holds. | |
| Jun 6, 2022 at 13:26 | history | edited | choXer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 6, 2022 at 12:58 | history | answered | choXer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |