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Q: Why does past participle in German begin with "ge-"?

A: To give the speaker some time to remember what verb they had in mind 90 seconds ago when they started the sentence.

Why would the "normal" way of thinking/saying things, involve putting the verb, then the object, and not the other way around ? Pretty much like arguing that the normal way of writing is from left to right. Good demonstration of how brains are wired differently.

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