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Modal particles in German are always uninflected words similar to grammatical particles in English which are also uninflected. However, English grammatical particles in fact include function words such as sentence connectors, sentence substitutes, conjunctions, interjections and even [[adverb|adverbs, which German particles do not do. They are entities standing out for their simpliciy in a language which is so much more inflected than Emglish.

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