Re: Three "Genki"-questions

From: Marc Adler (marc.adler_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 23:28:27 GMT

Paul Blayek idatzi du 3/27/2005 10:01 AM:

> Nice bit of over snipping there.

Thanks.

> But hottoite is not "the imperative form".

In actual usage, it's the most common one, though.

Marc

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