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From: Antonio Marques <no_email@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Official German spelling update
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:38:15 -0000 (UTC)
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Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:
>> |"viel" (or the Middle High German vil) was originally used as
>> |a noun that entailed a partitive genitive. As you can see
> 
>   The omission of the partitive is akin a bit to when the "of"
>   is dropped in "a couple friends." Compare that also to German:
>   "eine Art von Zahlwort" -> "eine Art Zahlwort".
> 

Can one still say 'viel Danks/Glücks', or would that be wrong outright?