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Omnes habemus lapsus linguae :P [[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|<span style="color: #3366BB ;">Chrysophylax</span>]]''' 20:07, 9 January 2013 (CET) | Omnes habemus lapsus linguae :P [[File:Admin.png|35px|link=Linguifex:Administrators]] '''[[User talk:Chrysophylax|<span style="color: #3366BB ;">Chrysophylax</span>]]''' 20:07, 9 January 2013 (CET) | ||
Thank you! ¡Gracias! Danke! Tack så mycket! You all have been so gentle to me :) The prof. had effectively said that ''{{green|store/a}}'' can be used with real masculine gender nouns and that ''{{green|store}}'' is more formal than ''{{green|stora}}'' in this case, and that the last form is more used and spread. As always I compare Swedish to German and I've noticed that in German I don't decline the adjective in the predicative position, whereas I've seen that in Swedish I've to do it (even if I can only use common or neuter gender). | |||
I didn't understand this matter :) | |||
If the noun is not determined (I mean there aren't both the independent article and the enclitic one), then I have to use the "strong declension" of adjective (Swedish ''{{green|-Ø; -t; -a (plural)}}'', German ''{{blue|-er; -e; -es; -e (plural)}}'': | |||
* ''{{green|(Ett) lit'''et''' barn}}'' = ''{{blue|(Ein) klein'''es''' Kind}}'', | |||
if the noun is determined, then I have to use the "weak declension" of adjective (Swedish ''{{green|-e; -a}}'', German ''{{blue|-e}}'': | |||
* ''{{green|Den lill'''a''' barnet}}'' = ''{{blue|Das klein'''e''' Kind}}. | |||
In the predicative form ''{{green|Barnet är lit'''et'''}}'', '''{{green|barn''et''}}''' is determined, because there is the enclitic article, but I decline the adjective using the strong declension, as if it were referred to a not determined noun, whereas in German I say ''{{blue|Das Kind ist klein}}'', in this case I don't use the declension at all! | |||
Therefore I have asked you this thing, I just didn't understand why in Swedish I have to use in any case the adjective declension if in a higher inflected language as German I don't have to use it in the predicative position :) | |||
Jag hoppas att jag har varit klar :) [[File:Llyn.png|35px|link=User:Llyn]] '''[[User talk:Llyn|<span style="color: Green;">Llyn</span>]]''' 21:29, 09 January 2013 (CET) | |||
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