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Except that you’d then have to make all the operators postfix to match how German puts the verbs at the end of subordinate clauses :-p “wenn a b ==...”
by SilasX 6y ago
Except that you’d then have to make all the operators postfix to match how German puts the verbs at the end of subordinate clauses :-p
“wenn a b ==...”
- Tainnor 6y agoah but it's more complicated because only the main verb is at the end of the sentence, so if you need an auxiliary or you have a copular construction like "ist gleich", you need to split the verb phrase... in fact, Germans would say (and do say, e.g. in mathematics) "wenn a gleich b" as a shorthand for "wenn a gleich b ist".
- mhink 6y agoInteresting. Seems sorta like the English shorthand "if a less-than b, do this" (as opposed to "if a IS less than b, do this"). "Equal" is almost a different story since it works as a verb as well as an adjective.
- Tainnor 6y agoYes, in English has the verb "to equal", which German doesn't. The verb "gleichen" doesn't work, because it means "to be similar to".