Chicken Sandwich
Senior Member
- Joined
- Jun 20, 2010
- Member Type
- Interested in Language
- Native Language
- Russian
- Home Country
- Russian Federation
- Current Location
- Netherlands
I find it hard to believe that native speakers would say "my daughter has an accident" for a 'past event with unspecific time'.
It sounds weird in other languages as well. For a past even with unspecific time we would say in Dutch, 'Mijn dochter heeft een ongeluk gehad.' The same structure as in English. In Russian we would use a past tense, for example, 'Mоя дочь попала в аварию.'
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