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> Other languages like German, Tamil use verbs at the end Doesn't German have the main verb on the second position? (For a simple example, "I drink water" woul
by cesarb 1y ago
> Other languages like German, Tamil use verbs at the end
Doesn't German have the main verb on the second position? (For a simple example, "I drink water" would be "Ich trinke Wasser")
- andyferris 1y agoYeah I thought the German ambiguity was SVO vs OVS, “Fritz fished fish” vs “Fish, fished Fritz”..
- aredox 1y agoYeah, wrong one, but there are many languages out there where the verb is always at the end (Latin, Japanese I think).
- nyeah 1y agoInviting native German speakers to comment. Of course we anglophone-only HN geniuses can answer cesarb's question brilliantly on our own. But perhaps as a little sidebar we could also get your 'opinion'. Thanks! /s
- sriku 1y agoIn that form yes, but the active "drink water" which is kind of what we'd code like "drink(water)" is "wasser trinken". ... but yeah human languages aren't straightjacketed easily.