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| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5711 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes  Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 9 of 11 05 March 2014 at 7:21pm | IP Logged |
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You could say, there's two "lauter"s, and the one we still use is undeclinable. You could also say lauter has two variants, one is outdated, has a paradigm and means "pure". The other one is currently in use, is undeclinable, and often maps to "sheer". I don't know if this works as a guideline, but I usually think of "lauter" as suggesting there really is a lot, even too much of something, not that the something is complete or pure. "Vor lauter Bäumen den Wald nicht sehen" doesn't mean you can't see the forest because the trees are too pure, but that there are too many of them - to be precise, you are looking at too many of them in isolation; you're paying too much attention to detail and lose sight of the whole thing.
Versteigern means to auction. Edited by Bao on 05 March 2014 at 7:35pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4652 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 10 of 11 09 March 2014 at 11:17am | IP Logged |
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In German you can use "lauter" as an adjective? Damn, you learn something new every day.
I would have said it's an adverb, and I would always use it as such. Not to mention that's probably a fixed expression. (In Dutch the use is comparable to what Bao said. I spell it "louter" though). Edited by tarvos on 09 March 2014 at 11:25am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6648 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 11 10 March 2014 at 12:18pm | IP Logged |
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"Lauter" is definitely an adjective, whether it is declinable or not. Things that are hooked directly unto substantives are adjectives (or numbers, articles or certain kinds of adjectival pronouns). The one thing they can't be is adverbs.
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