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Does German "sollen" ever function like English "shall" to indicate a future or possibility ...
I understand that "sollen" typically expresses what is expected of the subject of the sentence, and found excellent accounts of that usage of "sollen" in this other StackExchange page:
Does “sollen” i …
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The German 'Kommen + Past Participle' Construction
I encountered the usage of a German verb + past participle construction when in English one would have used verb + present participle. It is from the fairy tale 'The Frog King or Iron Henry' ('Der Fr …
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Questions on "da Alles zu einem Zweck geschaffen worden"
I am trying to understand the highlighted phrase from this 1844 translation of Candide by Voltaire.
»Es ist erwiesen,« sagte er, »dass die Dinge nicht anders sein können: denn da Alles zu einem Zw …
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Subjunctive combined with “als”
I followed TehMacDawg's suggestion and did some Web search and found these.
Justiz als Schicksal von Karl Peters
Kürzlich wurde an mich ein Fall herangetragen, in dem es um die Frage ging, wer vo …
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Understanding the cases of nouns and pronouns in Kafka’s ‘Der Verschollene’
I realize that vocative is not part of German grammar as found in grammar books. Maybe I should have said a vocative use of the nominative. …
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Understanding “um so schneller” in this Kafka sentence
I can only come up with the following guess (by a blind, mechanical application of grammar and meaning): alles andere came out faster (schneller) than das Ärgste, and the degree (so) by which that Nachdrängen …
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