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@german Two things:

New to the Fediverse and interested in seeing how reaching out to your Lemmy via my Mastodon account works.
My main question:

I came across an interesting sentence on Duolingo today. „Willst du mit mir zur Bank mitkommen." I know mitkommen is a separable verb, so does that mean I can reply, „Ich komme mit dir zur Bank mit' or would you usually omit the final 'mit"?

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[-] marron12@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Not a native speaker, but I think "ich komme mit dir zur Bank mit" would be grammatically correct, but normally you would just say

Ja, ich komm(e) mit.

Or maybe

Ja, ich komme mit dir zur Bank.

But I don't think you need to say "zur Bank" or "mit dir" since that was already mentioned. Hopefully there's a native speaker who can correct me or add to that if needed.

[-] jouzu@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Native speaker here and I couldn't have said it better.

Both of your examples are correct and natural and OP's sentence is indeed gramatically correct and also pretty natural but would get abbreviated, in practice, the way you described.

[-] acrousey@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago

@marron12 Vielen Dank!

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