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From: Bertel Lund Hansen <gadekryds@lundhansen.dk>
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Christian Weisgerber wrote:

> Also, endings can be lost in specific grammatical contexts while
> persisting elsewhere.  Since the reduction of vowels in final
> syllables to [ə] between Old and Middle High German, there hasn't
> been a general change affecting endings in German, I think.  However,
> people who studied German as a foreign language are probably very
> aware of the masculine/neuter singular strong dative -e, e.g. "mit
> dem Kind(e)".

I don't know if I *studied* German when learning it in school and later
reading in d.e.s.d, but until now I didn't know about that dative form.
I don't think that I have met it in songs either.

-- 
Bertel
Kolt, Denmark