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Paperclip Posted 19 years ago
Grammar
Participial Adjective
0 Hello, 02 br
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00 I want to know if a "full" relative sentence can be made as an adjective/attribute like in the German language, for example: "Der Mann, der gerade ein Buch liest, ist mein Vater." (the man, who is reading a book, is my father), becomes: "Der gerade ein Buch lesende Mann ist mein Vater." (the a book reading man is my father??). I've done some research, but all that I could find was "interesting man", "broken glass", or some similiar short constructions. By the way, I'm sorry if I wrote the terminologies wrong. 02 br
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00 Thank you. 0-
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00 I want to know if a "full" relative sentence can be made as an adjective/attribute like in the German language, for example: "Der Mann, der gerade ein Buch liest, ist mein Vater." (the man, who is reading a book, is my father), becomes: "Der gerade ein Buch lesende Mann ist mein Vater." (the a book reading man is my father??). I've done some research, but all that I could find was "interesting man", "broken glass", or some similiar short constructions. By the way, I'm sorry if I wrote the terminologies wrong. 02 br
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00 Thank you. 0-
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0 01 i 00 the book-reading man is my father 02 i 02 br 02 br 00 a bit strange in English 0-
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0 01 i 00 the book-reading man is my father 02 i 02 br
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0 Thank you for the fast reply. I noticed that we put a dash between the object and the verb, right? However, what if the sentence is different, like: "The man, who sat on the balcony yesterday, is my father."? Maybe it becomes: "The yesterday on the balcony-sitting man is my father."? Is there a limit to this? It is said that German's "long participial adjective" is not used in speaking general
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