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Subject: Re: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?m=F6chte_versus_h=E4tte_gern?= Posted on: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:03:28 +0200

Pete schrieb:
>> (There's no "I would like to buy a beer" with "hätte gern")
>
> Thanks for that last comment. Everyone else assumed I wanted to
> know how to ask for a beer, but I already knew that: Ein Bier, bitte.
> My question involved whether "hätte gern" can be used with a verb
> infinitive, and the answer is not always, I guess. "Ich möchte
> " is the safe way.
>
>
> Pete
>
>
To be quite clear, if you do use "hätte gern" with a verb, then the verb
form has to be the past particle, and not the infinitive form. You are
also no longer saying "I would like a beer", but "I would have liked to
have bought a beer", which might cause a few raised eyebrows in the pub.

T.