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| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5788 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 9 of 11 12 March 2014 at 8:40pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks, Josquin. I get it now.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6708 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 10 of 11 13 March 2014 at 1:24pm | IP Logged |
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My first thought went in a totally different direction: why isn't it "sei" in the last sentence ("sie sei nackt darunter")? I assume that the person in question did wear some kind of textiles under her fur coat or frock?
The halfways main clause status (cfr the wordorder!) of that sentence is also somewhat suspect, but I have seen similar grammatical breakdowns before. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4849 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 11 of 11 13 March 2014 at 2:22pm | IP Logged |
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Well, the subjunctive ("sei") is ignored by a lot of people, so using the indicative is some kind of a colloquial feature here. Of course, from a prescriptive point of view, the subjunctive would be correct, but people usually don't talk like that.
Concerning the word order: When you omit "dass" the word order in the subordinate clause changes to S-V-O, so this is absolutely correct. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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