Questions tagged [participle]
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Past participle of haben
To ask someone if they had fun, I could say:
Hast du Spaß gehabt?
But why is it gehabt, and not gehaben? How is the participle formed?
Would I still ask it formally using gehabt?, i.e.
Haben Sie Spaß gehabt?
I thought the participle might have…
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Zu welcher Kategorie gehört das Partizip II, zu den Hilfs- oder Vollverben?
ob das Partizip II in die Kategorie der Hilfs- oder Vollverben zugeordnet wird. Ich bin der der Meinung das diese zu den Hilfsverben gehören, da sie den Nutzen der Vollverben alleine nicht vollbringen können. Trotzdem bin ich mir unsicher und frage…
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Present-Participle Clauses Standing After Nouns in German
Could you say, wise guys and girls knowing both German and English, if we can can make present-participle clauses after nouns in German?
I know that we can sure make such clauses before nouns in German, whereas in English it's unnatural if there are…
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arbeitende Roboter vs gearbeitete Roboter
I just learned Partizip 2 and I would like to know the difference between Partizip 1 and 2. What is the difference between ''arbeitende Roboter vs gearbeitete Roboter''? If you give more examples about these topics and difference between them, ı…
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"The German that I write"
Based on what I learned from the answers I got to my previous question, I wrote on a German site
Mein schreibendes Deutsch
to translate into English the sentence in the title:
The German that I write.
But a native speaker, not knowing what I am…
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is the sentence in the main body grammatically correct?
"Sprechen ist voll gesehen: sich aussprechendes mit einem Anderen über etwas Sprechen."
I would expect "aussprechend" in place of "aussprechendes" here. Is the sentence, as it stands, grammatically correct? If so, what part of speech is…
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Is the word "bestellt" needed in this sentence?
Um die Wirtschaft ist es noch schlechter bestellt als zu Mugabes Zeiten.
My translation for this sentence is this:
The economy is worse than Mugabe’s time
I don’t understand the meaning of bestellt here. I think it is not the predicate of the…
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