Timeline for Odd (seeming) use of "gern" with subjunctive
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| Oct 27, 2021 at 16:39 | comment | added | Hubert Schölnast | @RDBury: Yes, there is sarcasm involved. | |
| Oct 25, 2021 at 16:50 | comment | added | RDBury | I had a feeling there was some sort of sarcasm involved, but I wasn't sure. | |
| Oct 25, 2021 at 15:25 | comment | added | Hubert Schölnast | @RDBury: About the last sentence (penalty ticket): Here "gerne" means "if you want". The driver already got a ticket but obviously argues with the officer, so the officer asks the driver if they want even more penalty. | |
| Oct 23, 2021 at 18:15 | comment | added | RDBury | So in the Müll example, gern just means a preference rather than enjoyment. E.g. one might say Ich gehe gern früh los, bevor der Verkehr zu dicht wird. I take it that gern in the original example is to soften the request, so really it's acting as a modal particle since it's not really necessary to convey the meaning. I'm not certain what function gerne has the last example. Is it something like "easily" or "very well"? As in "I could easily also issue you another penalty notice." | |
| Oct 23, 2021 at 12:31 | history | edited | Hubert Schölnast | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 23, 2021 at 12:21 | history | answered | Hubert Schölnast | CC BY-SA 4.0 |