From: naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
   On 2024-07-15, Antonio Marques  wrote:   
      
   > I'd never thought of _vielen_ as a singular, hence my request.   
   >   
   > It still sounds odd to me. Christian says Dank is to be read as a mass   
   > noun, but I can't quite make that work.   
   >   
   > I'm also a bit puzzled that german children won't instinctively interpret   
   > vielen as a plural.   
      
   How so?  There's no preceding determiner, so strong declension   
   applies.  If "vielen" was plural, it would have to be dative.  Also,   
   I think "Dank" simply cannot be plural without an ending like -e,   
   -er, -en, or -s.  And if it was a dative plural noun, it would have   
   to terminate in -n or -s as a further constraint.   
      
   --   
   Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)