[gothic-l] Re: the word "the" as in "the house" or "the car"

[Ingemar Nordgren]

Hi Llama Nom,

Thank you for this and later explanations. It streghtens my confidence
a little to be right in that even if I am a very bad linguist when it
comes to grammatical syntax and generally grammatics.

Best
Ingemar


--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "llama_nom" <600cell at o...> wrote:
> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Ingemar Nordgren" <ingemar at n...>
> wrote:
> > I have never succeeded to see definite article  before words in
> Gothic.
> > Indefinite like  'a house' or 'that house, this house' et c. I rather
> > see the definite in the ending of the word like in Scandinavian
> > languages or rather the word is bowed  according to it's function in
> a
> > special sequence. I am of course not very good in Gothic so I might
> be
> > wrong.
>
> No, you're right, Ingemar--except that I think the enclitic article
> (attached to the end of a noun) is a later development in North
> Germanic.  This lack of the definite article is one of the most
> frequent ways in which the Gothic bible translation differs in syntax
> from the Greek original.  It's apparent in virtually every line [
> http://www.wulfila.be/gothic/browse/ ].




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