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Re: Nominative or Accusative

Hello.
I must be in the nominative case. Not only "to be" is a copula, even "to
become", "to keep being", "to stay something" and "to seem as" are copulas and
are those kinds of verbs where both arguments are in the nominative case. What
is your mother language? For English speakers this might be hard, because there
is hardly no case opposition, but for Germans or other case languages that might
be easier, as they do it intuitively.
Your sentence then is: "...mişşanei unwitans magun şiudanos wisan"
But I'm not sure about the order, whether it must be: şiudanos wisan or wisan
şiudanos. I would say the latter one.
Liubos goleinis.
Kevin




Tue Feb 14, 2012 2:54 pm

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Hello, all! I'm having a bit of a brain fart about whether a specific word should be in the Nominative case or the Accusative. Here is the sentence, you'll see...
anheropl0x Offline Send Email Feb 14, 2012
2:30 pm

Hello. I must be in the nominative case. Not only "to be" is a copula, even "to become", "to keep being", "to stay something" and "to seem as" are copulas and...
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Feb 14, 2012
2:54 pm

I knew there was a specific word for this (copula), but I'd have to dig through a couple Latin books to find it. I did not know that there were that many...
anheropl0x Offline Send Email Feb 15, 2012
12:58 am

Hailai, A thing to watch about the case that goes with forms of the verb "to be" is that it is sometimes accusative. This applies even in English in sentences ...
Grsartor@... Send Email Feb 15, 2012
10:06 am

Hello, in German it is quite easy if you just ask for it: Er wird "wer oder was"? Or: Er scheint "wer oder was" zu sein? In comparison to: Er imitiert "wen...
Kevin Behrens
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Feb 15, 2012
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