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| chiara-sai Triglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 3698 days ago 54 posts - 146 votes  Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, French Studies: German, Japanese | Message 9 of 9 14 October 2014 at 1:20pm | IP Logged | ||
German often employs prepositions as verbal particles and not as prepositions as such. The mit in the sentence is from the verb mitkommen, which means “to come along”. Incidentally English does use verbal particles too, although in English their syntax slightly differently. Indeed you could translate the German sentence into English while maintaining the double preposition illusion: “will you come along to the café?”. They’re not actually two prepositions because the along in the sentence is just a particle that belongs to the verb come along, exactly like in the German kommst … mit the mit is not a preposition but a particle of the verb mitkommen. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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