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Future Perfect with modals
Lolly:
--- Quote from: availn on April 21, 2013, 09:41:14 pm ---Dammit, I'll be staying away from this stuff then. All other sentence constructions have made sense so far, but this is just weird. Thanks again, I was just curious about longer sentences, but I think I'll just pretend they don't exist :)
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Have they taught you Konjunktiv yet?
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(Starfish is pro at German. ^_^)
FlorianK:
Don't worry no german ever uses this form, I don't even know why it exists. Srly, even in context a sentence like "I will have wanted to go there?" doesn't make sense in both german or english.
I mean how can you say that in the future you'll be finished with wanting to go somewhere?
Lolly:
--- Quote from: FlorianK on April 21, 2013, 09:49:00 pm ---Don't worry no german ever uses this form, I don't even know why it exists. Srly, even in context a sentence like "I will have wanted to go there?" doesn't make sense in both german or english.
I mean how can you say that in the future you'll be finished with wanting to go somewhere?
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You're predicting your reaction to the past...I guess????
FlorianK:
Futur II (vollendete Zukunft)
pretty much means a finished action in the future. So in like "In 7 months I will be finished with Year 12" that would mean "In 7 Monaten werde ich die zwölfte Klasse abgeschlossen haben"
But in the case of wanting it just doesn't make sense to me ~_~
availn:
--- Quote from: lollymatron on April 21, 2013, 09:47:50 pm ---Have they taught you Konjunktiv yet?
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(Starfish is pro at German. ^_^)
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We've been taught Subjunctive, I think they are the same? It makes much more sense than this stuff, because word order stays the same (at least I think it does lol), and we pretty much were told only to bother with würde, hätte, and wäre.
--- Quote from: FlorianK on April 21, 2013, 09:49:00 pm ---Don't worry no german ever uses this form, I don't even know why it exists. Srly, even in context a sentence like "I will have wanted to go there?" doesn't make sense in both german or english.
I mean how can you say that in the future you'll be finished with wanting to go somewhere?
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Maybe not "I will have wanted to go there", but I think we all use "I would have wanted (liked? idk) to go there" quite a lot.
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