Relative Clauses

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[@gabor6259]

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[@TrueSchwar]

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[@gabor6259]

In Hungarian the question and relative pronouns are differentiated. Mi - what (question) Ami - what (relative) Ki - who (question) Aki - who (relative) Hol - where (question) Ahol - where (relative) You see the pattern. And then all of these get the same case endings. Gapping and adjectival are the 2 main types of creating relative clauses. Gapping: Az ember, akit utálok. Az - The, ember - person, akit - whom, utálok - I hate. Adjectival: A mindenkit utáló ember. - The person who hates everyone. (literally: the everyone-hating person) A mindenki által utált ember. - The person whom everyone hates. (literally: the hated-by-everyone person) Of course in both of these cases you can use relative pronouns. Az ember, aki mindenkit utál. - The person, who hates everyone. Az ember, akit mindenki utál. - The person whom everyone hates.

[@teacupanimates]

they taught me this at school, surprised to see people dont know this! i live in the UAE, so it could be why.

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[@steffahn]

5:50 I think you missed using the past tense 見た (mita), too, in the lower sentence.

[@lXBlackWolfXl]

I would like to also state that German changes up its word order a bit in subordinate clauses. German is normally a 'hybrid' svo sov language. Normally the verb is placed after the first noun phrase (typically the subject), so you have SVO. However, if there's more than one verb (aka auxiliary verbs), then the infinitive(s) are all moved to the end. Thus instead of saying 'Ich werde lesen das Buch' (I will read the book) you say 'Ich werde das Bush lesen'. On a side note, you'll often see grammarians claim that German is actually SOV but moves the inflected verb to the front. This contradicts wals which lists German as having a hybrid order, and also means that Germans are making a transformation in every single sentence, which is obviously non-sense. Back on topic, subordinate clauses of all types in German instead are consistently SOV. Using the example from before 'I book that I will read' would be 'Das Buch das ich lesen werde'. Note how 'werde' (meaning both 'will' and 'become') now comes after lesen ('to read') unlike before. This gives German the unusual property in that both the beginning of ends of subordinates clauses are marked. Normally its not easy to explain where a relative clause ends through syntax alone. This has the added benefit that German can make relative clauses far more elaborate than what languages like English would allow. In fact, they're technically open-ended; there is no real hard set limit. Any construction, no matter how long, would still be possible to unravel, though obviously overly long relative clauses could strain a listener's short-term memory. Also, Germans sort of prefer to avoid relative clauses, funny enough, due partially to their language having some alternate strategies for conveying the same information. Besides, German speakers tend to be kinda laconic; They tend to get straight to the point and not bother mentioning less important information. I know of no other language on the planet that has such a system. There are languages that mark the end of relative clauses, but they don't mark the beginning (this is the norm in languages that place relative clauses before the head noun, such as Japanese and Chinese). German is literally the only language I've ever heard of that marks both ends. I would like to see other ways to do this, but languages seem to strongly prefer to just ignore the issue. German's case only came up due to how its unusual word order evolved. It was historically SOV, but switched somewhat to SVO due to influence from the Romanic languages, but not completely, resulting in the strange hybrid word order seen today. English amusingly used to have the same word order as modern German, but English decided to switch fully to SVO.

[@olfrud]

wow, thanks! Now I understand why I have kind of an easy time learning japanese...a lot of the grammatical structure feel kind of natural to me (I'm a german speaker)...although most of the time everything is kind of upside down in japanese.

[@rhetoric5173]

Great work, though I am uncertain of the MS Arabic nominative dual case. In colloquial it would end with a plural rather than a dual. Arabic has an entirely different grammar theory than the greek based one presented here, the greatest grammarian sebawyeh has yet to even be translated into English.

[@EGFritz]

The part on lequel is wrong, it is only a relative pronoun when it is the object of a preposition. Otherwise it can only be a relative adjective

[@olfrud]

Great videos! Just wanted to point out that at 3:52 in German there is a mistake: "die Leute, die schläft" first of all is grammatically incorrect, it should be "die Leute, die schlafEN", but also in context "Leute, die schlafen" sounds kind of strange, although not wrong, we would rather say "Personen" in that case, because "Leute" has kind of a negative or "stranger" kind of vibe to it...I don't know how to describe it, since German is my first language, it just feels wrong.# Edit: also at the end 7:17 its: "ein nach Hause gehender Mann", not a "nach heim"...but I have to say...seeing the mistakes you made in German indicates to me you really know about the languages you speak of and not just copy pasted, so great job and thank you for that interesting video!

[@MatthewMcVeagh]

Some good information but a lot of mistakes as well I'm afraid.