I'm guessing that it's a historical accident that "to" is demed part of the infinitive in English and "zu" isn't in German. Wart, meinst du die getrennte Verben?
[Pedant] Mann braucht kein "do" in "We do split" [/Pedant]
> [Pedant] Mann braucht kein "do" in "We do split" [/Pedant]
I know. I just want to emphasize.
> So sich erinerren ≡ zu sich erinneren?
Not in that case. (Here we'd have "sich zu erinnern"). An example for splitting the "zu" from a verb. Strange, it looks like we do not do in German that much (or at all). I must have mixed it up with some other construction.
I'm guessing that it's a historical accident that "to" is demed part of the infinitive in English and "zu" isn't in German. Wart, meinst du die getrennte Verben?
[Pedant] Mann braucht kein "do" in "We do split" [/Pedant]