GERMAN · C2WORD NOTES
MEANING & PRONUNCIATION
die Periphrase
periphrasis; roundabout expression
periphrasis; multiword grammatical construction
IN CONTEXT
Im Sprachkurs untersuchten wir die Periphrase mit würde und Infinitiv, weil manche synthetischen Konjunktivformen im Gespräch ungewohnt förmlich klingen.
In language class, we examined the periphrastic construction with würde and an infinitive, because some synthetic subjunctive forms sound unusually formal in conversation.
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