separable verbs

Date: 2006-12-15 10:42 pm (UTC)
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Along that same vein, sometimes an infinitive can be separable, sometimes not - yes, the meaning changes - and the only way to distinguish them is where the stress lies.

An example that springs to my mind in German is a joke that involves people in car coming across something and the driver asks: "Umfahren oder umfahren?" (Run it down/drive over it or swerve/drive around it?)
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