Timeline for No "zu" in titles? [closed]
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| Feb 14, 2023 at 8:51 | history | closed |
Olafant SwissCodeMen xyldke RalfFriedl Björn Friedrich |
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| Feb 1, 2023 at 13:40 | comment | added | planetmaker | I'd say even in English "Having a girlfriend" is the better title | |
| Feb 1, 2023 at 10:39 | comment | added | Jan | I don't have time for a full answer right now, but maybe the thought helps somebody else formulate one: I think it's about the "erweiterter Infinitiv mit 'zu'", which, to be properly invoked, would require a bit more complete structure than is given in a title like the one cited in the original post -- or indeed most other titles. There are some that get away with it, such as Schopenhauer's "Die Kunst, Recht zu behalten". You can enter "Die Kunst" or "Vom Glück" into an autocompleting search box in an online book store (Amazon comes to mind) and get suggestions for some titles that use "zu". | |
| Feb 1, 2023 at 10:08 | review | Close votes | |||
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| S Feb 1, 2023 at 9:40 | history | suggested | tripleee | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 31, 2023 at 8:17 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Dec 30, 2022 at 10:04 | comment | added | RHa | Whether "zu" is required or not depends on the rest of the sentence. Without knowing it it's impossible to tell which is correct. | |
| Dec 30, 2022 at 9:10 | comment | added | Brian | Sort of a short story, yeah @HeikoJakubzik | |
| Dec 29, 2022 at 20:00 | answer | added | Michael Karcher | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 29, 2022 at 18:56 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 29, 2022 at 18:30 | answer | added | hakim00 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 29, 2022 at 17:24 | comment | added | Heiko Jakubzik | What exactly is the context? Why is this a "title" -- what kind of title? As a title of a story or book, I agree that the statement sounds better without "zu" -- more open for different perspectives. In some other context, the "zu" is not even optional, as in "Es wäre gut, eine Freundin zu haben," where omitting the "zu" would be ungrammatical. | |
| Dec 29, 2022 at 17:02 | history | asked | Brian | CC BY-SA 4.0 |