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[kittydesade]

The present time subjunctive forms of regular weak verbs are identical to the simple-past forms. For this reason, the würde-construction is frequently used rather than the subjunctive form of regular weak verbs.
e.g. Ich würde den Computer nicht kaufen.

The present time subjunctive forms of irregular weak verbs are like the simple past forms, but with an umlaut added. With the exception of wüsste, the subjunctive forms of irregular weak verbs are rarely used. The würde-construction is more common in colloquial German.
e.g. Würdest du die CDs mitbringen?
Ich wüsste nicht, ob ich das machen könnte.

Ein Picknick. Stefan spricht mit seiner Schwester Monika über seine Pläne für ein Picknick. Übersetzen Sie, was er sagt, ins Englische.

STEFAN: Hättest du Zeit mitzukommen?
MONIKA: Ja, sicher. Ich könnte einen Tag frei nehmen.
STEFAN: Wüsstest du, wen wir sonst einladen sollten?
MONIKA: Vielleicht Onkel Max und Tante Gabi.
STEFAN: Vielleicht könnten wir alle zusammen fahren?
MONIKA: Schön. Das könnten wir.
STEFAN: Wenn ich nur wüsste, wo die beiden sind!
MONIKA: Was meinst du, was Onkel Max mitbrnigen wird?
STEFAN: Heringe, natürlich, wie immer. Und ich werde dann viel zu trinken mitbringen.



And then I ended up writing The Company Goes To A Brothel. I do not know why. Or how. It just happened. It may or may not turn out to be porny, either. Which isn't exactly what you'd expect of a fic whose sole purpose is to put characters in a brothel, but hey.

This is another one of those times when I'm sure I had something more to say, but I can't remember what the hell it was. Blah blah heading home for putting together bed and vanity and doing blogwork, switching between the last Once episode and the Grimm essay on Wesen biology. I guess that was one of the other things, we had a commenter on our blog today who basically left a long rambling comment that definitely wasn't in fluent English and I'm not sure was meant to be coherent in any language of origin, to say that we were wrong and our blog wasn't very good and how could Audrey be with Duke when she was clearly meant to be with Nathan and the Writers Said So. Leaving aside the language issue (I tried translating it into Spanish to see if it made more sense there), I thought it was clear that we've been trying not to espouse any particular ship in Haven as A Thing That Is Happening. And equally clear about the fact that, yes, we have biases, let us show you them and establish that these are our biases, not Things That Are Happening. Between that and someone else a few days ago commenting "man, I expected better from you guys, you missed this that and the other thing" it left both of us going "jeez why do we bother this isn't fun" and wanting to pull blankets over our heads and hide.

Then we read some more positive feedback on the blog, remembered that we do this because it's fun and we're not terribly militant about EVERYONE READ THIS AND AGREE WITH US FOR WE ARE WISE (or I don't think we are)? And now we feel better.

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[kikibug13]

I approve of feeling better. *nodnods*