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Can 'wiedergut' function as a "Verbpartikel"
It is "Ich mache es wieder gut." as you can see in Duden in the Rechtschreibung and the Grammatik section. Duden chooses to explain grammar by example.
As you noted correctly, wieder gut is ...
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Can 'wiedergut' function as a "Verbpartikel"
"wiedergutmachen" is actually Präsens (present tense). "gut" is just an Adverb, like in "schwarzmalen" (about: to doomsay, literal: to blackpaint) or "hartlöten"...
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Why did the 1st person plural present ending change from -em (in Proto-West-Germanic) to -en (in German)?
You have to acknowledge that this does not have the typical properties of a sound shift. In a sound shift, the language's phonemes are affected, like merging phonemes, creating new allophones or ...
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Is the Hammer Grammar out of date?
You understand this statement the wrong way. It's true for all prefixed verbs, yes. But that's not the point. The statement compares e.g.
kaufen — gekauft
einkaufen — eingekauft
verkaufen — verkauft
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Dubious use of German verb "gehören"
The chapter on "Kongruenz mit dem finiten Verb" (concord with the finite verb) in my Duden grammar (8th edition, rule 1618) states that both singular and plural are correct for "...
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Dubious use of German verb "gehören"
It is technically not correct.
Ignoring that satellites you would definitely say
Ihrer Firma gehört ein Großteil.
It doesn't really matter what majority it is, because the subject doesn't change its ...
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Dubious use of German verb "gehören"
It's the same rule as in English; since we're talking about multiple satellites the verb requires a plural. In English we'd say "A large proportion of the satellites in space belong to your ...
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