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To be more precise, English uses word order to do what most other Indo-European languages do with declination and conjugation.

The hardest part of learning German was getting used to V2 verb order (or similarly, verbs with separable prefixes). I can understand the rule perfectly fine, but parsing sentences in real time is extremely challenging.



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