Re: The Meanings of Middle, or mana kartam

Estonian has

> an impersonal voice, which of course exists only in the 3rd person
> 'sind oodatakse' "you are expected", cf 'sa ootad' "you wait". Note
> that the subject 'you' in 'you are expected' is in the partitive
> ('sind') in Estonian, a case that is used for the non-existent
> accusative (similarly to what is the case in Slavic languages); the
> equivalent (bad) German would be 'Dich ist erwartet'.

Should have been 'dich wird erwartet' (people shouldn't think I can't
write bad German).


Torsten