| 28.1 Interrogative Phrases of type a) in German |
Normally an interrogative phrase of this type starts
with a verb. In other words, we find here the same inversion
of subject and verb that we have already seen in many
other circumstances, like conjunctions,
relative
clauses and word
order in a phrase.
| Example | |
| Kommt er
heute oder morgen? = Does he come today or tomorrow? |
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Kann
er schon schreiben?
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In some cases it is possible to form an interrogative phrase without the inversion of subject and verb. But then the pronunciation of the question must be stronger than usually. Else the one listening cannot understand that it is a question.
| Example | |
| Du weißt das
nicht? = Don't you know this? (You don't know this?) |
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Er hat seine Hausaufgaben
noch nicht gemacht? |
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