Verse:Irta/Judeo-Mandarin: Difference between revisions

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 Tense in indirect speech doesn't change to match the clause it's embedded in, like in German and unlike in English.
-To quote questions in indirect speech, Ăn Yidiș directly carries over the interrogative auxiliary complex and doesn't use a special conjunction like English ''if'' or German ''ob'' (it just changes pronouns as necessary): ''To mi ņey faynăch do, vel fis ģe.'' 'I asked him if he knew.' (lit. "I asked him, does he know") This is also mandatory in Irtan Modern Hebrew: שאלתי אותו, האם הוא יודע (whereas our Hebrew can use אם instead of האם).
+To quote questions in indirect speech, Ăn Yidiș directly carries over the interrogative auxiliary complex and doesn't use a special conjunction like English ''if'' or German ''ob'' (it just changes pronouns as necessary): ''To mi ņey faynăch do, vel fis ģe.'' 'I asked him if he knew.' (lit. "I asked him, does he know") This is also mandatory in Irtan Modern Hebrew: שאלתי אותו, האם הוא יודע/היודע הוא (whereas our Hebrew can use אם instead of האם).
 ==Vocabulary==