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Article #299Re: needs washed
From: O.M.Selberg
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 10:03
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 10:03
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(...stuff deleted....) >Maybe it is a more general thing than Amish. I speak German and am not >aware of that kind of construction in German, but I don't really know much >about the non-standard dialects. > >Bob Beer >bbeer@u.washington.edu > Constructions on the pattern: `<somebody/somthing> gehoert <past participle of a transitive verb>' are fairly common in colloqial German. The German equivalent of: "the car needs washed" would be: "Der Wagen gehoert gewaschen" (literally: `The car belongs washed), which sounds perfectly all right to me (I'm not a native speaker of German, though).
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Newsgroups: sci.lang Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!aun.uninett.no!nuug!nntp.uio.no!news From: O.M.Selberg@uio.no Subject: Re: needs washed Message-ID: <1992Aug6.100351.28459@ulrik.uio.no> Sender: news@ulrik.uio.no (Mr News) Nntp-Posting-Host: hfmac15.uio.no Organization: University of Oslo References: <9208052111.AA20375@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1992Aug5.224441.10212@u.washington.edu> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1992 10:03:51 GMT Lines: 14