{"id":1778,"date":"2016-10-31T09:29:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T09:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/superior-english.com\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2016-10-31T15:13:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T15:13:50","slug":"nettigkeiten-fuer-anfaenger-please-be-so-kind-as-to-infintive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/superior-english.com\/en\/2016\/10\/31\/nettigkeiten-fuer-anfaenger-please-be-so-kind-as-to-infintive\/","title":{"rendered":"Nettigkeiten f\u00fcr Anf\u00e4nger: Please be so kind as to-infintive"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cW\u00e4ren Sie so freundlich?\u201d Wer als ehrgeiziger Fremdsprachler von dieser Floskel im Englischen\u00a0Gebrauch macht, tappt oft in eine Falle: Allzu gerne vergisst man zum Schluss das kleine \u201cas\u201d<\/strong> <\/em>bzw. \u201cto\u201d<\/strong><\/em>. Dabei entstehen schr\u00e4ge S\u00e4tze wie z.B.:<\/p>\n

Please be so kind and<\/strong> <\/del>send me another copy of the invoice. <\/em><\/p>\n

Please be so kind to send<\/del> <\/strong>me another copy of the invoice.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Richtig w\u00e4re: Please be so kind as to<\/u> send me another copy of the invoice.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Nach Bauchgef\u00fchl f\u00e4hrt man (aus welchen Gr\u00fcnden auch immer?) hinter kind<\/em>\u00a0mit einem \u201cund\u201d\u00a0oder dem Verb fort. Aber Mensch! Es ist so einfach, das richtig hinzubekommen! Die W\u00f6rtchen as <\/em><\/strong>und to <\/em><\/strong>sind uns immerhin nicht v\u00f6llig fremd. Also bauen wir mal eine Br\u00fccke:<\/p>\n

Die W\u00f6rtchen as to<\/em>, <\/strong>wenn man diese so als Pr\u00e4position zusammensetzt, bedeuten so viel wie betreffend \/ bez\u00fcglich \/ hinsichtlich \/ was [+Akkusativ] betrifft<\/em>. [Aber Achtung! Manche Sprachprofis finden diese Formulierungsweise–obwohl sie durchaus weit verbreitet ist–eher problematisch bzw. \u00fcberfl\u00fcssig und raten dazu, diese m\u00f6glichst zu vermeiden.] Hier zwei Beispiele:<\/p>\n

We were puzzled as to<\/strong> how to formulate our request.<\/p>\n

As to <\/strong>the details of the relaunch, I\u2019m afraid you\u2019ll have to wait for the press release.<\/p>\n

Im Englischen schreibt man also im Grunde genommen\u00a0\u201cPlease be so kind\u2026 was [<\/u><\/strong>mein Anliegen] betrifft<\/strong>.<\/u>\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

With that in mind, please be so kind as to<\/u> <\/strong>remember \u201cas to\u201d or choose a different, less formal way to make\u00a0your request.<\/p>\n

Die „Please be so kind as to“-Floskel ist sowieso ziemlich\u00a0steif und f\u00f6rmlich. In den meisten F\u00e4llen reicht tats\u00e4chlich ein ganz einfaches Please<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Happy writing!<\/p>\n

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  \u201cW\u00e4ren Sie so freundlich?\u201d Wer als ehrgeiziger Fremdsprachler von dieser Floskel im Englischen\u00a0Gebrauch macht, tappt oft in eine Falle: Allzu gerne vergisst man zum Schluss das kleine \u201cas\u201d bzw. \u201cto\u201d. Dabei entstehen schr\u00e4ge S\u00e4tze wie z.B.: Please be so kind and send me another copy of the invoice. Please be so kind to send … Continue reading Nettigkeiten f\u00fcr Anf\u00e4nger: Please be so kind as to-infintive<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[273],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","no-featured-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1L3QY-sG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/superior-english.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/superior-english.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/superior-english.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superior-english.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superior-english.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/superior-english.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1800,"href":"https:\/\/superior-english.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/1800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/superior-english.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superior-english.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superior-english.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}