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[kittydesade]

The present time subjunctive of strong verbs is formed by adding subjunctive endings to the simple-past stem of the verb. An umlaut is added to the stem vowels a, o, or u. Although the würde construction and the subjunctive form of the main verb are equivalent in meaning, the würde-construction is more common in spoken German.

While all verbs have subjunctive forms, only a few of them are common in informal German. In written German the most common are fände (finden), gäbe (geben), ginge (gehen), hielte (halten), hiesse (heissen), liesse (lassen) käme (kommen), täte (tun). Of these verbs fände, gäbe, ginge, and käme are also common in spoken German

finden -- fand + umlaut + subjunctive ending -e = fände
gehen -- ging + no umlaut (b/c i) + subjunctive ending -e = ginge

Hier sind einege Gedanken, die Frau Müller hat, wenn sie sich im Büro langweilt. Die Verben in diesen Sätzen sind im Konjunctiv. Suchen Sie den passenden English Satz auf der rechten Seite.

1. Das täte ich gern. I would do that gladly.
2. Wir kämen gern zu er Konferenz. We would be glad to come to the conference.
3. Frau Lange ginge sicher mit zum Chef. Frau Lange would certainly come along to [see] the boss.
4. So etwas gäbe es bei mir nicht. Such a thing would never happen with me.
5. Das wäre ein gutes Geschäft. That would be a good deal.
6. Und wenn die Sekretärin krank würde? And what if the secretary got sick?


Okay. Weasels slain. At least for the moment, they'll respawn eventually. I've got my day job work done, I'm leaving early again today, I've got tasks lined up for this evening, I can do this. Especially with having gotten some momentum in my Grimm essay. Apart from my transitions I can probably actually do this, and what I might do is just write the individual chunks and then try and smash them together, since writing it straight through isn't going nearly as well as it usually does. Thank Thoth or someone for outlining beforehand.

We got the washer installed today! Now we just need to plug in the dryer and the hard part of that is going to be getting it through the utility room to garage door. Which we then need to put back on its hinges or something. Oops. But, apparently the washer? Was teleported in from the future. I shit you not, I mean, I know it's been a while since I've used a new washer or anything but goddamn. Do these things really need 20-25 settings? Steam wash, delicate wash, bleach wash, pre-wash, child safety wash? I don't know, I only remember a small fraction of them, the boy told me that I have to read the manual before I use it and I actually think he might be right. Which is rather frightening because I've been using a washer and dryer since I was a teenager.

Still, that means I can actually go through clothes, sort them out, do some damn laundry which is good because I was running out of clean clothes, and figure out what needs to get packed up for spring/summer and what needs to get packed up for Goodwill and what needs to get sent upstairs to the craft room. Because I think ultimately I'm going to just make a quilt out of my old t-shirts that I can't bring myself to throw away but that really aren't in decent shape anymore. I do want to re-buy two t-shirts, Good Morning Sinners and Gutter Ballet specifically. Those can both wait, though.

And then when all that's done I can actually, gasp, shock, put clothes in my dresser. What a revolutionary concept! Not quite yet, though. At the moment I can only wash as many clothes as I can hang up to dry, since the dryer didn't get hooked up, since the boy was pretty much home on his own and there was no way he was going to get the dryer into the utility room on his own. That's tomorrow, though. Today... well, there's more than enough work to deal with today.

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[kikibug13]

Having a washer is a relief, ngl. It just. CLEAN CLOTHES WHEN I CAN PUT THE EFFORT.