German composition

Note 2 — Section 137. DO NOT BE ASHAMED OF YOUR ORIGIN. II.

Reading edition

Translate ‘you’ by Ihr in this address, and use the verb in the 2nd pers. pl., which at that time was the common address for people of the lower rank of society. Say ‘had you (Ihr) besides (außer) the two already mentioned brothers not yet another’?

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