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"What comes onto the table gets eaten!"
Translation:Was auf den Tisch kommt, wird gegessen!
March 21, 2013
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Looking back at this, I think I have to clarify that the place does not generally go in front of the verb. In a regular sentence, it's exactly the other way round: Wir essen am Tisch. [not Wir am Tisch essen.] It's different here, because the sentence starts with a relative pronoun. You can see that when you turn the sentence around: "Es wird gegessen, was auf den Tisch kommt."
Levi
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@Soglio : I wrote exactly the same thing as you did - and I think what Germandy was trying to say, is that in a relative clause the verb goes to the very end ( [...], was auf den Tisch kommt. ).