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Re: [romconlang] Declension trouble



Hi!

Benct Philip Jonsson writes:
>...
> It is interesting to see how in German all forms of the
> definite article occur in more than one slot in the
> declension, der in particular being ambiguous, so that it is
> in practice the combination of endings on the article and
> noun, combined with lexical knowledge what gender the noun
> is, which enables the listener/reader to determine which
> case and number a given instance of article + noun
> represents.
>...

I particularly like pairs like:

   mit  den Jungen    - with    the boys  (plural)
   ohne den Jungen    - without the boy   (singular)

Here, you need knowledge about the case the prepositions demand to
understand the number. :-)

**Henrik