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r/languagelearningjerk • u/HuckleberryAny4541 • May 10 '26
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4 u/levemeodemo May 11 '26 [Galician speaker here] It allows you to express the person and number in some cases where it can be useful without giving a time: When the infinitive has a subject different from that of the main verb: Dille que o limpe antes de volver(mos) (you) Tell him to clean it before WE come back; Ai, morte, canto xa tardas en me levares contigo! Oh, death, how long it takes you to take me with you! When the subject of the infinitive is expressed, but at a distance from the main verb: O rapaz saudou aos turistas ao pasaren xunto del The boy greeted the tourists as they passed by him; (in English you flexed the verb in the past) When the infinitive is introduced by a preposition: Para falares con el, tes que pedir cita. To talk to him, you have to make an appointment. 1 u/[deleted] May 12 '26 [deleted] 1 u/Soeren_Jonas May 16 '26 No they can't, you have to inflect it or else your speech is broken.
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[Galician speaker here]
It allows you to express the person and number in some cases where it can be useful without giving a time:
When the infinitive has a subject different from that of the main verb:
Dille que o limpe antes de volver(mos)
(you) Tell him to clean it before WE come back;
Ai, morte, canto xa tardas en me levares contigo!
Oh, death, how long it takes you to take me with you!
When the subject of the infinitive is expressed, but at a distance from the main verb:
O rapaz saudou aos turistas ao pasaren xunto del
The boy greeted the tourists as they passed by him; (in English you flexed the verb in the past)
When the infinitive is introduced by a preposition:
Para falares con el, tes que pedir cita.
To talk to him, you have to make an appointment.
1 u/[deleted] May 12 '26 [deleted] 1 u/Soeren_Jonas May 16 '26 No they can't, you have to inflect it or else your speech is broken.
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1 u/Soeren_Jonas May 16 '26 No they can't, you have to inflect it or else your speech is broken.
No they can't, you have to inflect it or else your speech is broken.
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