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I took three years of German. Never had problems with the word order, including verbs. I guess I'm lucky in that; I've taken some Japanese too, and all the verb
by khedoros1 9y ago
I took three years of German. Never had problems with the word order, including verbs. I guess I'm lucky in that; I've taken some Japanese too, and all the verbs are at the end there ;-)
After all these years, I've forgotten the genders of most nouns, and I'm very shaky on my declensions.
- biot 9y ago"At the end, all verbs are."
- TomK32 9y agoI'd say "Alle Verben sind am Ende? Das muss nicht sein". Well, it's not that simple.
- redmorphium 9y agoQuite complex, actually :(. Ich hätte ihn fragen können.
- tom_mellior 9y agoIn your second example, you should have highlighted muss, which is the inflected verb here, which is always in the second position in an in a declarative sentence (as opposed to a question or a relative clause or whatever). Same as in English: "All verbs are at the end? That doesn't have to be".
- 50CNT 9y agoAuf Verben verenden muss nicht sein. Oder muss man nicht.
- nayuki 9y ago"Verbs regarding, all of them, end at exist."
- Broken_Hippo 9y agoNorwegian is my second language. The word order thing trips some folks up here as well (including myself sometimes, sometimes it is like english and sometimes not) - but others not so much. You are indeed lucky.
- khedoros1 9y agoI've considered learning a bit of Norwegian, just to get a feel for the differences, but I haven't had any practical reason to, yet.