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| Edit | Post #286610 | Nominated for promotion | — | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #286735 | Nominated for promotion | — | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #287840 | Nominated for promotion | — | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #287759 |
Ah, I was using "stem" somewhat loosely here, as in simply what the inflectional suffix attaches to. You're right though, that the dental past tense could be considered not to be a part of the stem. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287759 |
Actually, this occurs in strong verbs as well "ich trank, er trank" (not "*er trankt"). In general, the first and third person are always identical in the preterite, no matter the verb.
It doesn't really change anything about your answer, since strong and weak only affects the stem and not the end... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287840 |
According to [here](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/32619/why-is-idea-sometimes-pronounced-as-idear), it is actually a fairly common phenomenon in non-rhotic accents. It could be that the Chinese accent is either due to British influence or just another example of this.
Edit: I'm guess... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287840 | Nominated for promotion | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283340 | Nominated for promotion | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286553 | Nominated for promotion | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285356 | Nominated for promotion | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286610 | Nominated for promotion | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287685 |
Post edited: typo |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287685 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
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Why is the third person singular conjugation different in the past tense? Generally speaking, German verbs inflect with the following table | Person | Inflection | Example | |-|-|-| | ich | -e | sage, arbeite | | du | -(e)st | sagst, arbeitest | | er/sie/es | -(e)t | sagt, arbeitet | | wir | -en | sagen, arbeiten | | ihr | -(e)t | sagt, arbeitet | | sie (Plural) ... (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286735 | Nominated for promotion | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286653 | Nominated for promotion | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286704 | Nominated for promotion | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286796 | Nominated for promotion | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287270 | Nominated for promotion | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287538 | Nominated for promotion | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287538 | Nominated for promotion | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279462 | Nominated for promotion | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280972 | Nominated for promotion | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286796 | Nominated for promotion | — | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286653 | Nominated for promotion | — | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287270 | Nominated for promotion | — | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287281 |
You're right, I shouldn't have phrased it so strongly, I just meant that I never hear it where I live and so am unused to the construction. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #287281 |
In American English, you wouldn't say "Microsoft have never said they have extended the free period.", it is always singular, "Microsoft has ...". This might be one of the reasons the construct seems exceptional to me, since I'm an American speaker.
That said, the main point sounds right. I found ... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #287270 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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Plural agreement with a syntactically singular subject Many quantity words trigger agreement with their object rather than themselves. For instance, syntactically, "a lot, "a bunch", "an amount" seem to all be singular. However, as a native speaker, "There are a lot of people", with the plural form of the verb "are", seems just as grammatical as "There i... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285711 | Nominated for promotion | — | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286553 | Nominated for promotion | — | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286610 | Nominated for promotion | — | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286735 | Nominated for promotion | — | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279224 |
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— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277534 | Nominated for promotion | — | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279224 |
I've added it to an "Other" section (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279224 |
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— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286735 | Nominated for promotion | — | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286796 | Nominated for promotion | — | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279224 |
A Japanese learning server I'm in has compiled another, very comprehensive list of items: https://github.com/EngJpDiscordExchange/Awesome-Japanese/blob/master/readme.md
It might be worth adding these resources here too. It's quite large though, and I'm wondering if it wouldn't be better to split i... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279224 | Nominated for promotion | — | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277357 | Nominated for promotion | — | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286539 | Nominated for promotion | — | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286620 |
@#53566 Please refrain from saying things like "Did you try to Google, before posting?" It serves no purpose other than to insult and antagonize questioners, which violates our "Be Nice" policy. As a moderator, this is an informal first warning.
Instead, it is more helpful to simply say "Here is s... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286735 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Possessive vs accusative case for nominalized clauses Consider the following sentences: 1. "She was against his joining the team." 2. "She was against his joining of the team." 3. "She was against him joining the team." Instinctively, the first just sounds wrong to me. Thinking deeper about it though, I can't tell why it sounds wrong to me; "joi... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #286610 |
@#53696 Users are free to post wherever they want; if you want to ask there, then you're free to do so.
(As it is, I don't think this is a language-learning question) (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286704 | Nominated for promotion | — | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #286653 | Nominated for promotion | — | over 2 years ago |