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Genitive in German and English |
| Posted by Nick B. on 2017-07-10 00:26:13 |
| Well I've read through that pretty well, but I don't follow what your first sentence means. But it is early, and I've not yet had my coffee & tea. People today say that the possessive s is a contraction of "his"? If that's what you mean, I'm glad I'm ignorant of that. At any rate, I've wondered about ye olde pub signs with alternating spellings like "King's Head", "Queens Arms". The varying use of the apostraphe. Are these names possessive? Obviously some are, but also the ones without "'"'s? Then again, they depict only a singe king or queen, not a plurality of them, so I suppose they must all be possessive. I thought for a long time that "Roppelt's Keller", as spelt by the Roppelts themselves, was actually grammatically incorrect, as the German genetive possessive s should not use an apostraphe. But...there is an exception for personal names in use as company names in advertising and logos. So...it's correct, I was wrong. |
| Followups: |
 Genitive in German and English by barry on 2017-07-10 11:25:31 |
| Genitive in German and English by Uncle Jimbo on 2017-07-10 22:48:01 |
| Genitive in German and English by Nick B. on 2017-07-11 00:47:40 |
| Genitive in German and English by barry on 2017-07-11 01:49:47 |
| Genitive in German and English by Jason on 2017-07-11 02:23:14 |
| Genitive in German and English by Nick B. on 2017-07-11 02:39:21 |
| Genitive in German and English by barry on 2017-07-11 02:59:16 |
| Genitive in German and English by Jason on 2017-07-11 03:15:47 |
| Genitive in German and English by Uncle Jimbo on 2017-07-11 22:01:00 |
| Genitive in German and English by AndyH on 2017-07-14 08:56:57 |
| Genitive in German and English by AndyH on 2017-07-14 09:07:55 |
| Genitive in German and English by Nick B. on 2017-07-15 01:54:27 |