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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