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German equivalents of "for that" and "for to"?
for that
A dictionary entry for "for that" can be found here: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/for_that. According to that, it means because / as / since / given that (German: weil / da / nachdem).
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German equivalents of "for that" and "for to"?
In "For that there were few..." there is the trivial "weil es wenige Beispiele.." To keep the rythm, there is the 2-word substitute "Denn weil es ... gab,.." and the ...
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(No) double infinitive confusion
"Three books one ought to have read." The variants and tenses of "sollen" are
"Drei Freunde soll man haben." (Three friends one ought to have.)
"Drei Freunde sollt ...
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