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Halo, ich habe ein frage mit dem Verb 'Wollen':
zB: Wie sagt Mann auf deutsch "I want him to have the book" und "They wanted me to come"
Danke!
Feb 21, 2016 4:46 AM
Answers · 2
English uses a so-called "accusative and infinitive" construction (AcI, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusative_and_infinitive) with some verbs, and "to want s.o. to do s.th." is among those. German does have an AcI construction for verbs of perception ("Ich höre dich kommen"), but not for "wollen", so you need to use a subclause with "dass" ("möchten/wollen, dass jemand etwas tut").
February 21, 2016
Ich will, oder besser: Ich möchte, dass er das Buch bekommt.
Sie wollen/möchten, dass ich komme.
February 21, 2016
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