Expression of threat

[ludwig.paul at UNI-HAMBURG.DE]

In German, we say in the same way, as a threat usually from older persons to 
children, sentences like:

"Dich werde ich lehren, nochmal meinen Garten zu betreten!"
(i.e. don't do this again!)

Ludwig Paul

Am 11 Jan 2010 um 11:17 hat Siva Kalyan geschrieben:

> 
> In (American) English, one could say, "I'll teach him to walk in my garden!" (or, in less standard 
> English, "I'll learn him!"). I wonder if the Russian construction evolved from something similar, 
> since in both cases the addressee of the threat is expressed as an indirect object and the 
> threatener as the subject. Siva