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Query re: German nomenclature
Hi guys - a quick question.
Is the plural of 'Alarmstart' 1) Alarmstarts 2) Alarmstartet thank you! |
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Starts
1) is OK.
Never 2). |
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Re: Query re: German nomenclature
thanks, very helpful
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Alarmstartet? - Perhaps...
Having just re-read your question I got a doubt. In theory someone could possibly have written this, even in a book, but it would not be correct standard German but rather familiar, colloquial, offhand: you would speak like this very informally to some comrades, for example if all the guys involved are mechanics:
"Er alarmstartet, nachdem feindliche Flugzeuge..." (He takes off in a hurry after some enemy aircraft...). I can imagine such a phrase but then, I am NOT German so I think our German comrades here are in a position to make a better assessment than I can. In any case this possible word can be used (because of German grammatics), if at all, only to say that a pilot (only ONE) is taking off in a hurry, in an emergency. Not possible for several ones. (It's similar in English: he takeS off means one pilot only). |
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Re: Query re: German nomenclature
thanks
I meant one pilot or several together took or take off on Alarmstarts, plural. |
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OK
Yes, excuse me: I forgot the first lines of your inquiry. "alarmstartet" would be wrong.
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Re: Query re: German nomenclature
"Alarmstartet" is not used in the German language, neither as a verb nor as a noun ...
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