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[muckefuck]

Herbert Karel Angelo Kuchacevič ze Schluderpacheru

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[clintswan.livejournal.com]

bless...

[come-to-think.livejournal.com]

My mother's mother's name was Magdalena Carolina Wilhelmina Augusta Oppermann Hughes. I never saw her, but my brother & I learned it as a chant.

[tisoi.livejournal.com]

What's the "ze" for?

[anicca-anicca2.livejournal.com]

no

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

It's the equivalent of German von. (Interestingly, however, the German version retains the Czech dative suffix, i.e. von Schluderpacheru.)

[pne.livejournal.com]

Genitive, I believe, not dative.

(Masculine dative is also -u, but genitive can be, too, when it’s not -a, and I think that “from” takes the genitive.)

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, pne! Yours is the 20,000th comment in his journal.

You may now request your boon!

[pne.livejournal.com]

Well, if I could ask for anything it would be for Japanese to be included in your “Polyglot” posts :)

Though I realise they’re primarily for your benefit and interest rather than mine.