{"id":3153,"date":"2009-10-05T22:21:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T03:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minitosu.com\/?p=3153"},"modified":"2009-10-05T22:30:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T03:30:35","slug":"german-grammar-101-separable-verbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/?p=3153","title":{"rendered":"German Grammar 101: Separable Verbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Tobin surprised me by casually applying a German grammar quirk that brings <a href=\"http:\/\/german.about.com\/library\/blmtwain01.htm\" target=\"_blank\">grown language students<\/a> to their knees. He completed a separable verb at the end of my sentence (which could&#8217;ve been a standalone, but is more to the point the way he completed it).<\/p>\n<p>Me: <em>&#8220;Luna leckt Tobin&#8217;s Hand&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nTobin: <em>&#8220;&#8230; ab!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It translates into &#8220;Luna is licking Tobin&#8217;s hand&#8221;. There is a general verb for licking <em>(lecken<\/em>) that i used in my sentence. Then there is one specific verb that can be used for animals licking objects, or people licking their plates like animals (<em><strong>ab<\/strong>lecken<\/em>).<br \/>\nThe tricky part is that <em><strong>ab<\/strong>lecken<\/em> often gets separated, with the first syllable closing the sentence: <em>leckt [&#8230;] ab.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was quite surprised to see Tobin upgrading my simple sentence to the next level &#8211; especially since he doesn&#8217;t speak in grammatically correct sentences quite yet. His daily chatter is mostly three to five word baby string sentences&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Tobin surprised me by casually applying a German grammar quirk that brings grown language students to their knees. He completed a separable verb at the end of my sentence (which could&#8217;ve been a standalone, but is more to the point the way he completed it). Me: &#8220;Luna leckt Tobin&#8217;s Hand&#8221; Tobin: &#8220;&#8230; ab!&#8221; It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false},"categories":[356],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3153"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3160,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions\/3160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}