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In the minutes of an official committee, I have found the following sentence: "Zum Zeitpunkt des letzten Komitees lagen noch keine aktuellen Werte für die Prognosen der Bank vor."

I am surprise by this usage of "vorlegen", i.e. only with a subject and without an object, because I did not know this verb could be used in such an intransitive way. I have looked in the Duden and elsewhere, but I could not find this usage.

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  • Is the above sentence correctly constructed in German ?
  • Instead, could/should we use the verb in a reflexive way, for instance "Zum Zeitpunkt des letzten Komitees lagen sich noch keine aktuellen Werte für die Prognosen der Bank." ?
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    Note the past tense of "vorlegen" would be "legten vor" - vorlegen is a seperable verb. - So it must be something else...
    – tofro
    Feb 23 at 17:48

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Yes, the sentence is fine. The verb there is "vorliegen", though, which is always intransitive.

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