Re: [DL] Mood Music [OT] german.

[ERIK WEISSENGRUBER <eweissen@watarts.uwaterloo.ca>]

At 02:30 AM 1/17/00 -0600, you wrote:
>> Haben, to have, and Hassen, to hate DO sound similar in the second person
>> familiar (the "du" form)


In the present tense, the second person would be addressed in the following
manner:

Du hastest mich (you hate me)

In the past tense it would be

Du hast mich gehast

 but I believe they are spelled differently.  Of
>> course, if they sound similar, (ie are homonyms) and this would give each
>of
>> the beginning lines double meanings.   (Quite possibly the intent I don't
>> know.)
>
>Yes, but doesn't Haben conjugate into "hast" and "habst"?
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