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Tuesday, October 10, 2023
German Practice Sentence
Charles Duff and Paul Stamford, German for Beginners, 2nd ed. (New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1960), p. 16:
Welcher Esel kommt da?
Which jackass is coming there?
I can think of many occasions when this sentence would come in handy.