Nominative or Accusative
Grsartor at AOL.COM
Grsartor at AOL.COM
Wed Feb 15 10:05:59 UTC 2012
Hailai,
A thing to watch about the case that goes with forms of the verb "to be" is
that it is sometimes accusative. This applies even in English in sentences
like these:
they believe him (not he, obviously) to be the culprit
they believe the culprit to be him (not he, less obviously)
Likewise in Gothic
...unte wissedun Xristu ina wisan
they knew him to be Christ (Luke 4:41)
...hwana mik qithand mans wisan?
whom do men say me to be? (Mark 8:27)
Interestingly the second example was originally translated in the King
James bible as
whom do men say that I am?
but was later corrected to
who do men say that I am?
since this is not an example of an accusative and infinitive, though it was
in the Greek.
Gerry T.
In a message dated 15/02/2012 00:58:37 GMT Standard Time,
anheropl0x at gmail.com writes:
I knew there was a specific word for this (copula), but I'd have to dig
through a couple Latin books to find it. I did not know that there were that
many Copula in Gothic. My mother tongue is German, but German doesn't
really have any changes in nouns from Nom. to Akk.
--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "kevin.behrens at ..."
<becareful_icanseeyourfuture at ...> wrote:
>
> Hello.
> I must be in the nominative case. Not only "to be" is a copula, even "to
become", "to keep being", "to stay something" and "to seem as" are copulas
and are those kinds of verbs where both arguments are in the nominative
case. What is your mother language? For English speakers this might be hard,
because there is hardly no case opposition, but for Germans or other case
languages that might be easier, as they do it intuitively.
> Your sentence then is: "...mi��anei unwitans magun �iudanos wisan"
> But I'm not sure about the order, whether it must be: �iudanos wisan
or wisan �iudanos. I would say the latter one.
> Liubos goleinis.
> Kevin
>
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