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13 Dec 2019
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What is the difference between sein and wesen?
Feel free to just provide example sentences.
Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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13 Dec 2019
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Low German is a different language, probably spoken by a few people in northern Germany. If you want to be understood everywhere you shouldn't learn Low German words. Apparently they use wesen as an alternative to sein, so it also means to be. Etymologically this is very interesting, we probably got our past participle from there
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Do you mean the nouns Sein and Wesen or the verbs sein and gewesen?
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No. You probably mean gewesen, which is the participle 2 of sein
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@mabue99 Wikitionary lists it as a verb in Low German (what does mean?)
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/wesen
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/wesen
German
Low German is a different language, probably spoken by a few people in northern Germany. If you want to be understood everywhere you shouldn't learn Low German words. Apparently they use wesen as an alternative to sein, so it also means to be. Etymologically this is very interesting, we probably got our past participle from there
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