Practice in German, Adapted for Self-Instruction: Containing the First Three Chapters of "Undine," a Tale by De La Motte Fouque, With a Literal ... and Copious Notes (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Practice in German, Adapted for Self-Instruction: Containing the First Three Chapters of "Undine," a Tale by De La Motte Fouque, With a Literal Interlinear Translation, and Copious Notes

The English are apt to pronounce an r after a final-vowel, especially when the succeeding word begins with another vowel; they will read: Spline (st) {cb (511i) and) winter gafllid) unb woblmeinenb gamma - 3d) bate r) {tn bennod) gem; 2c. This is a fault which should be avoided; a German ear revolts against such liberality. We rather, in rapid utterance, and familiar, colloquial language, reject an e, and, in writing, mark the om1ss1on by an apostrophe, as fidtt' id) Cinch 2c. 3175 hab' {tn zc. Numerous instances of this kind of omission occur in our text. - Many writers omit e of the final syllable of verbs ending in hen. They write gehn for geben, fehn for feben, 2c.

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