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claudius on June 4, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Which English?

Hm, curious. What would be tell-tale signs of a native German speaker? :)

gtremper on June 4, 2014 | [–]

I've noticed some Germans tend to mix up the present perfect and the infinitive, since they are the same in German.

For example, "I eat" vs "I'm eating" vs "I'm going to eat".

StuffMaster on June 8, 2014 | [–]

Online they often combine two-word compound nouns into one word.

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