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by bad_alloc 1103 days ago
> For instance, to pick German again, when "caching" certain parts of sentences for later processing, which does not exist in other languages.

Do you have an example for this?

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Gestern bin ich mit dem Freund meiner Mutter, der in dem großen roten Haus im Tal des Berges wohnt, Fußball spielen gegangen.

Literal translation: Yesterday, was I with the friend of my mother, who in the big red house on The Valley of the mountain lives, playing football.

So you get a lot of context before you actually get what happened.

Seems very similar to English subclauses