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Re:A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to ... by khedoros1 on Friday December 01, 2017 @12:22AM (#15822112)
I took three years of German. Never had problems with the word order, including verbs. I guess I'm lucky in that; I've taken some Japanese too, and all the verbs are at the end there ;-)

After all these years, I've forgotten the genders of most nouns, and I'm very shaky on my declensions.

Re:A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to ... by Broken_Hippo on Friday December 01, 2017 @03:13AM (#15822645)
Norwegian is my second language. The word order thing trips some folks up here as well (including myself sometimes, sometimes it is like english and sometimes not) - but others not so much. You are indeed lucky.
Re:A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to ... by khedoros1 on Friday December 01, 2017 @03:43PM (#15827240)
I've considered learning a bit of Norwegian, just to get a feel for the differences, but I haven't had any practical reason to, yet.
Re:A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to ... by biot on Friday December 01, 2017 @01:02AM (#15822249)
"At the end, all verbs are."
Re:A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to ... by nayuki on Friday December 01, 2017 @02:10AM (#15822456)
"Verbs regarding, all of them, end at exist."
Re:A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to ... by TomK32 on Friday December 01, 2017 @02:06AM (#15822446)
I'd say "Alle Verben sind am Ende? Das muss nicht sein". Well, it's not that simple.
Re:A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to ... by tom_mellior on Friday December 01, 2017 @05:17AM (#15823020)
In your second example, you should have highlighted muss, which is the inflected verb here, which is always in the second position in an in a declarative sentence (as opposed to a question or a relative clause or whatever).

Same as in English: "All verbs are at the end? That doesn't have to be".

Re:A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to ... by redmorphium on Friday December 01, 2017 @03:36AM (#15822714)
Quite complex, actually :(. Ich hätte ihn fragen können.
Re:A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to ... by 50CNT on Friday December 01, 2017 @09:12PM (#15829665)
Auf Verben verenden muss nicht sein. Oder muss man nicht.