Finding driver bugs with DR. CHECKER

Posted Sep 17, 2017 14:26 UTC (Sun) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: Finding driver bugs with DR. CHECKER by Wol
Parent article: Finding driver bugs with DR. CHECKER

I am, thou art, he is, we/you/they are.

That's clutching at straws. In English, “to be” and “to have” are among the very few outliers, and nobody actually uses “thou art” anymore.

Compare that to German sein: ich bin, du bist, er/sie/es ist, wir sind, ihr seid, sie sind (present tense) and ich war, du warst, er/sie/es war, wir waren, ihr wart, sie waren (past tense). Oh, and there's a subjunctive mode, too: ich sei, du seist, er/sie/es sei, wir seien, ihr seiet, sie seien. Oops, actually there's two of them: ich wäre, du wärst, er/sie/es wäre, wir wären, ihr wäret, sie wären. And of course there are composite forms for present perfect, past perfect, and future I and II (although they work basically like the same forms in English – German and English are related, after all). But the past participle of sein that you need for these is the very obvious gewesen. Any questions?