Re: Past Tenses in Western Europe


"Ruud Harmsen" <realemailseesite13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im
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> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:45:37 +0100: Andras Barany <ba@xxxxxx>: in
> sci.lang:
>
> >It is possible, in some regions it's the only way you would say that.
> >It would be extremely unnatural to use the preterite in Austrian German
as
> >well. So, yes, you'd say "Ich bin im Lokal gesessen".
>
> Bin? Nicht habe?

No, in southern dialects (including Franconian), the verbs "sitzen",
"stehen" and "liegen" take "sein" rather than "haben".

Regards,
Ekkehard


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