And then there’s the different ways to connect verbs in English.
- I want to go to the movies. (“I want going” is wrong.)
- I like going to the movies. / I like to go to the movies. (Both ways work.)
- I despise going to the movies. (“I despise to go” is wrong.)
There aren’t rules for that, as far as I know. Just very fuzzy guidelines at best. And word stress is pretty random too. Both of those things can be tricky for non-native speakers.
Blyfh@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I mostly agree. Sorry if it came out that way, but my comment was not meant to be stating that English is way easier than German. Just wanted to point out that this “hard” and “useless” feature is not that useless and only hard for language learners.