German for Programmers

The main difference is that in English the rest of the sentence continues after the “on,” while in German the “on” always has to come at the end of the clause. The most striking part of this work is that Japanese speakers are far more likely to consider “light blue” to be a basic color term than English speakers would:

Just as our word “blue” covers both “blue” and “light-blue” in Japanese , so do English prepositions cover a different “semantic space” than German prepositions. There’s no way to rearrange the sentence to have the same meaning without adding extra punctuation or words – “the ball gives the dog to the man” has a completely different meaning.

Source: wickedchicken.github.io