"Verbs in German are valuable things. You collect them, hold on to them as long as you can, and then - at the end of the sentence - they all come tumbling out."

"Verbs in German are valuable things. You collect them, hold on to them as long as you can, and then - at the end of the sentence - they all come tumbling out." Franz Kafka put this property to good use and sometimes keeps the reader in suspense for half a page or more until the sentence falls in place. Swedish had some of this until the second world war, since then we've made it into an english-like pidgin.