Re: Past Tenses in Western Europe

>>>>> "Ekkehard" == Ekkehard Dengler <ED-RS@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> >well. So, yes, you'd say "Ich bin im Lokal gesessen".
>>
>> Bin? Nicht habe?

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

But "essen" -- a transitive verb -- takes "sein"?

Or you mean "geWesen" instead of "geGesen"?



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