K äppi -- end piece of bread ?
Joel S. Berson
Berson at ATT.NET
Mon Apr 27 00:07:11 UTC 2009
At 4/26/2009 06:34 PM, Chris Waigl wrote:
>Uh, the other way round. Given that German *does* have case endings,
>word order is more liberal than in English: "the woman gets the /
>Söhnche/".
Makes more sense. But what would be the
inflection (the accusative) in "the Söhnche[n] gets the Frau"?
Joel
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