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Word order when using a dative+accusative objects with temporal+causal+modal+local information elements
Forget te-ka-mo-lo, and consider the rule: "an adverb with a meaning that is very tightly connected to the verb meaning is inserted close to the verb, i.e. close to the end position of the verb ...
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Position of 'aber' in sentence
I think the reason for your puzzlement is the Derman sentence structure, which offers more freedom than English.
Emphasis in a German sentence can be conveyed by putting something in front (or at the ...
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adverbs and object ordering
Note that German word order most of all pays attention to factors like "old information earlier, new information later" etc. So definite objects like "das Eis, dein Eis" etc behave ...
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adverbs and object ordering
Word order in German is flexible, but some orders are more correct than others and a simple rule like "put adverbials first" can sometimes go wrong. The way you ordered it is probably in the ...
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"Mit" in front of a verb. Shouldn't prepositions come in front of nouns?
"Mit" can also be an adverb. This Duden page is relevant.
It's hard to tell the exact meaning of "mit" in the quoted sentence, because it is almost redundant. "Einschließen&...
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Die Position von zwei Pronomen
The default word order has known information first, new information later. It's a bit tricky to construct clauses by that because a bit of “information” may be more than one sentence item, and the ...
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Word order of pluperfect subjunctive
I was always taught T.I.M.: Tense - infinitive - modal. Whenever you have this constellation of three verbs jostling for position at the end of the sentence, where one is a modal (sollen/können etc.),...
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Satzstellung in Satz mit ob und Futur
Der Nebensatz hat ein sogenanntes Oberfeld direkt links von der rechten Verbklammer. Beim Perfekt mit Ersatzinfinitiv muss das haben in das Oberfeld gesetzt werden, beim Futur I und beim regulären ...
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