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scenic lintel
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good! you? although #botchannel seems the wrong place for this :P

tender trellis
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botchannel is basically a spam channel so it doesnt matter mmlol

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@main pebble that would be physics student

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lolk :P

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how is switzerland treating you? :D

scenic lintel
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good. studying for exams :P

tender trellis
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oh when are they? :o

main pebble
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ah, then i must inform you I am a student of maths
let's go make fun of engineers together!

scenic lintel
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XD sounds fun!

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august suzu

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holup
are these final exams?

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in august??

scenic lintel
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yeah it's weird

main pebble
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when does the year start then

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semester ends in may, exams are in august

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september

main pebble
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oh my that is strange

scenic lintel
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on the plus side we have a crap ton of time to study for them

main pebble
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mayhaps

tender trellis
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viel erfolg 🍀

scenic lintel
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dankeschön

tender trellis
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remind me again, youre in zurich, right?

scenic lintel
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yep

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you?

tender trellis
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in bayern rn

scenic lintel
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nice

tender trellis
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gonna move to vienna soon

scenic lintel
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:O

tender trellis
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do you know zwitschi??

scenic lintel
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nope

tender trellis
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oh schade

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maybe cuz hes a vc perosn

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person

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hes in zurich too

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wait

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have you met sascha irl? 👀

scenic lintel
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yes

tender trellis
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gasp

scenic lintel
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I'm not really active on this server except in #science so yeah

tender trellis
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yeah i know 👀

scenic lintel
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:P

tender trellis
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maybe i should visit you in science more often

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i think i def will when the uni starts anyways lol

scenic lintel
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what will you be studying

tender trellis
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chemistry

scenic lintel
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nice

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ex beginner

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How to get started
The simplest way to learn German is to find topics you don’t understand yet and search for explanations of them. This list provides you with a guide for which topics to learn if you are completely new to German. Type the topic into Google (or YouTube) and start learning!

Introduction
1: Alphabet (especially ä, ü, ö and ß)
2: Basic greetings (hello, goodbye, etc.)

Part 1 - Simple Sentence
1: Noun gender & plurals
2: Nominative case (What are cases?)
3: Nominative pronouns (I, you, he, she, etc.)
4: Verbs in present tense
5: Definite/indefinite articles
6: Accusative case (for nouns)
7: Accusative pronouns
8: Word order of simple sentences
9: How to ask questions

Tips

  • Always learn the gender of a noun when you learn a new noun
  • Learn to use a translation dictionary (e.g. dict.cc, leo.org)
  • Use >faq resources to see our list of German learning resources
  • For listening and pronunciation practice, try watching movies or videos (incl. YouTube)
  • You can listen to pronunciation for words on websites like dict.cc, forvo.com, and others
  • Practice writing sentences every day (and asking people to correct them)
  • Ask as many questions as possible
  • Don’t be scared to make mistakes!!!! If you don’t let yourself make mistakes, you will never be able to learn German
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faq resources

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i tried to write < > spoilers

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play wos buntes

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play Vienna calling

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mikro spinnt feg das kurz beheben

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play da da da

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play konis hupen

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play bibi hendel

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play zayn pillow talk

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queue

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Queued songs:
  1. Ariana Grande - Into You
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ex beginner

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How to get started
The simplest way to learn German is to find topics you don’t understand yet and search for explanations of them. This list provides you with a guide for which topics to learn if you are completely new to German. Type the topic into Google (or YouTube) and start learning!

Introduction
1: Alphabet (especially ä, ü, ö and ß)
2: Basic greetings (hello, goodbye, etc.)

Part 1 - Simple Sentence
1: Noun gender & plurals
2: Nominative case (What are cases?)
3: Nominative pronouns (I, you, he, she, etc.)
4: Verbs in present tense
5: Definite/indefinite articles
6: Accusative case (for nouns)
7: Accusative pronouns
8: Word order of simple sentences
9: How to ask questions

Tips

  • Always learn the gender of a noun when you learn a new noun
  • Learn to use a translation dictionary (e.g. dict.cc, leo.org)
  • Use >faq resources to see our list of German learning resources
  • For listening and pronunciation practice, try watching movies or videos (incl. YouTube)
  • You can listen to pronunciation for words on websites like dict.cc, forvo.com, and others
  • Practice writing sentences every day (and asking people to correct them)
  • Ask as many questions as possible
  • Don’t be scared to make mistakes!!!! If you don’t let yourself make mistakes, you will never be able to learn German
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group writing

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group

Commands for the central bot group system.

group info <group>

Gets information about a group.

group join <group>

Join a group

group joinall

Join all available groups at once.

group leave <group>

Leave an existing group.

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removecefr Level A

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cefr Level B

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ex babbel

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FAQ not found. Try >explain all.
Note: This entry has been added to our FAQ idea pool.

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group writing

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group

Commands for the central bot group system.

group info <group>

Gets information about a group.

group join <group>

Join a group

group joinall

Join all available groups at once.

group leave <group>

Leave an existing group.

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join writing

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@idle wharf it's >group join Writing ^^

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thank you!

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play I am gay Putin

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skip

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d_extrumi#0001 has skipped the song.

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play supergay putin

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play Rasputin

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play Streetlab - Dennie Baum Videoclip

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play boney m garden

lean tartan
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remind

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❌ Bad argument: when is a required argument that is missing.

lean tartan
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remind uwu

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❌ Bad argument: Invalid time provided, try e.g. "tomorrow" or "3 days".

lean tartan
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remind 365 days uwu

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Alright @lean tartan, in 11 months, 4 weeks and 1 day: uwu

karmic peak
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remind list

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Reminders
In 11 months, 1 week and 5 hours

[931] check how many faqs youve written so far you lazy fuck

In 49 years, 11 months and 1 week

[934] nice

karmic peak
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remind 22 days next meme for boosters

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Alright @karmic peak, in 3 weeks and 1 day: meme for boosters

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:x: You already have this role.

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cefr

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Roles you can give yourself
  • Level A
  • Level B
  • Level C
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❌ Bad argument: Role "remove A" not found.

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how can i remove my role

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cefr level A

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:x: You already have this role.

tender trellis
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cefr remove Level A

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❌ Bad argument: Role "remove Level A" not found.

proper ibex
lapis yacht
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cefr level B

desert mural
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@next furnace

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ex duolingo

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Duolingo is a decent resource to start with if you're a complete beginner, but it's neither efficient nor comprehensive!

What Duolingo will teach you about grammar is very limited, and none of the systems they use will help you practise much of it.
You can learn some vocabulary with it, but their method (based on the concept of spaced repetition) doesn't work for everybody, and the way Duolingo teaches is not very effective compared to the amount of time it requires from you.

So, if you find it useful, by all means keep using it, but remember not to fall for its gamification of language learning, and move past it when it stops being beneficial. Ignore the "streaks".

In any case, keep in mind that Duolingo is not enough to learn a language, ever.

If you're looking for guidance or alternatives, check out >faq beginner in our #botchannel .

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ex beginner

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How to get started
The simplest way to learn German is to find topics you don’t understand yet and search for explanations of them. This list provides you with a guide for which topics to learn if you are completely new to German. Type the topic into Google (or YouTube) and start learning!

Introduction
1: Alphabet (especially ä, ü, ö and ß)
2: Basic greetings (hello, goodbye, etc.)

Part 1 - Simple Sentence
1: Noun gender & plurals
2: Nominative case (What are cases?)
3: Nominative pronouns (I, you, he, she, etc.)
4: Verbs in present tense
5: Definite/indefinite articles
6: Accusative case (for nouns)
7: Accusative pronouns
8: Word order of simple sentences
9: How to ask questions

Tips

  • Always learn the gender of a noun when you learn a new noun
  • Learn to use a translation dictionary (e.g. dict.cc, leo.org)
  • Use >faq resources to see our list of German learning resources
  • For listening and pronunciation practice, try watching movies or videos (incl. YouTube)
  • You can listen to pronunciation for words on websites like dict.cc, forvo.com, and others
  • Practice writing sentences every day (and asking people to correct them)
  • Ask as many questions as possible
  • Don’t be scared to make mistakes!!!! If you don’t let yourself make mistakes, you will never be able to learn German
lapis seal
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!queue

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queue

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:x: There's nothing in the queue.

lapis seal
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np

true locust
icy egret
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@true locust hello meteor 😍

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icy egret
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true locust
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UwU

unreal crane
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Ex

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Ex

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ex

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❌ Bad argument: name is a required argument that is missing.

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help

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DictCC Commands
lookup <lang_in> <lang_out> <word>

Allows you to look up words you don't know.

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list

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ex list

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FAQ not found. Did you mean...
Resource List

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resource list

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Resource List

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ex Resource list

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;-;;;;

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help

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Generic Commands

Generic commands used by basically every bot.

cat

Responds with a random cat image.

charinfo <characters>

Show information about a number of characters.

danke

Gerne.

dog

Responds with a random dog image.

freedisappointment <member> <message>

Bully your fellow users with this wonderful meme command.

friendshipendedwith <old_friend> <new_friend>

Bully your fellow users even more with this wonderful meme command.

help [command]

Shows help about the bot, a command, or a category

ping

Pong.

quote <channel> <message>

Quote a message from a <channel>.

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ex beginner

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How to get started
The simplest way to learn German is to find topics you don’t understand yet and search for explanations of them. This list provides you with a guide for which topics to learn if you are completely new to German. Type the topic into Google (or YouTube) and start learning!

Introduction
1: Alphabet (especially ä, ü, ö and ß)
2: Basic greetings (hello, goodbye, etc.)

Part 1 - Simple Sentence
1: Noun gender & plurals
2: Nominative case (What are cases?)
3: Nominative pronouns (I, you, he, she, etc.)
4: Verbs in present tense
5: Definite/indefinite articles
6: Accusative case (for nouns)
7: Accusative pronouns
8: Word order of simple sentences
9: How to ask questions

Tips

  • Always learn the gender of a noun when you learn a new noun
  • Learn to use a translation dictionary (e.g. dict.cc, leo.org)
  • Use >faq resources to see our list of German learning resources
  • For listening and pronunciation practice, try watching movies or videos (incl. YouTube)
  • You can listen to pronunciation for words on websites like dict.cc, forvo.com, and others
  • Practice writing sentences every day (and asking people to correct them)
  • Ask as many questions as possible
  • Don’t be scared to make mistakes!!!! If you don’t let yourself make mistakes, you will never be able to learn German
lapis seal
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play Billie eilish bellyache

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play Miley Cyrius Mothers daughter

icy egret
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play acnl 1am

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❌ Bad argument: query is a required argument that is missing.

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Changed player volume to: 30%

icy egret
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vol 50

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Changed player volume to: 50%

icy egret
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skip

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hecke#6550 has skipped the song.

tender trellis
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cefr B

simple glacier
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help

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Group Commands

Commands for temporary sessions.
Groups are made of text and voice channels that are
temporarily created whenever a session is happening.
All groups are opt-in by default which means you
have to explicitly join them in order to be able
to access them.
Each group has moderators assigned to it who can
either start or end a group session and even ping
all members of it along with the ability to manage
messages within the group channel.

group

Commands for the central bot group system.

groups

List all groups this guild has.

sub <group>

Join an existing group.

unsub <group>

Leave an existing group

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sub translation

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:x: You're already in this group.

lucid karma
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groups

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These groups are currently accessible
  • Grammar - Lessons! Subscribe for pings.
  • Reading - Lessons! Subscribe for pings.
  • Advancedreading - Like Reading but only B2+ level content.
  • Coding - For all the coding nerds.
  • Food - A group for food talks.
  • Gaming - All gaming-related topics.
  • Science - STEM-related topics.
  • Sciencepractice - For solving science problems.
  • Translation - Offers weekly sentences to translate.
  • Writing - Join to get weekly and monthly prompts!
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cefr level b

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info mesh

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Could not convert "user" into Member or FetchedUser.

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info 278842352620273665

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Information about Mesh#4227
ID

278842352620273665

Joined

21/11/2018 08:53 (7 months, 3 weeks and 6 days ago)

Created

08/02/2017 10:59 (2 years, 5 months and 1 week ago)

Voice

Casual with 8 others

Roles

@​everyone, Learning German

true locust
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sub translation

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:x: You're already in this group.

icy egret
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@lapis seal oh you peepoBlush

lapis seal
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😛

flat vine
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faq beginner

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How to get started
The simplest way to learn German is to find topics you don’t understand yet and search for explanations of them. This list provides you with a guide for which topics to learn if you are completely new to German. Type the topic into Google (or YouTube) and start learning!

Introduction
1: Alphabet (especially ä, ü, ö and ß)
2: Basic greetings (hello, goodbye, etc.)

Part 1 - Simple Sentence
1: Noun gender & plurals
2: Nominative case (What are cases?)
3: Nominative pronouns (I, you, he, she, etc.)
4: Verbs in present tense
5: Definite/indefinite articles
6: Accusative case (for nouns)
7: Accusative pronouns
8: Word order of simple sentences
9: How to ask questions

Tips

  • Always learn the gender of a noun when you learn a new noun
  • Learn to use a translation dictionary (e.g. dict.cc, leo.org)
  • Use >faq resources to see our list of German learning resources
  • For listening and pronunciation practice, try watching movies or videos (incl. YouTube)
  • You can listen to pronunciation for words on websites like dict.cc, forvo.com, and others
  • Practice writing sentences every day (and asking people to correct them)
  • Ask as many questions as possible
  • Don’t be scared to make mistakes!!!! If you don’t let yourself make mistakes, you will never be able to learn German
lean tartan
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star random @tender trellis

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🌟 5 #general ID: 542713996780896257

Suzu

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Bro‘s moods:

whats that
i hate that
im drunk

lean tartan
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star random @pearl heath

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4 #general ID: 567314804612792330

Z 🕷 🕷 P

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im bored. i made this chart counting messages with at least 1 uwu.

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star random

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4 #general ID: 592153327349923845

FROG SOD 🐸

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"heyyy gurl, just one look at your pretty face is enough to make my hair not be the only thing that's wild and rising 😉 😉 😘 😘"

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star random @frank orbit

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🌟 7 #archived-media ID: 598205998192132132

phae

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Ich kann nicht aufhören des auszulachen

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star random @frank orbit

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2 #general ID: 599719526476677130

phae

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I mean you can be a toxic drama queen bottom

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star random @frank orbit

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🌟 6 #general ID: 498108296771796992

phae 🌈

Callum opened his eyes, tears flowing, he knew what Arrem was going to say. 'You're banned' said Arrem with a sad voice, Callum face turned into despair.. he's no longer the same man now that he's banned. Arrem hugged Callum and told him 'Fuck you' before telling him to leave the server.

frank orbit
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star random @frank orbit

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2 #general ID: 599719526476677130

phae

Jump to post
I mean you can be a toxic drama queen bottom

tender trellis
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star

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❌ Bad argument: message is a required argument that is missing.

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star random Hecke

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❌ Bad argument: Member "Hecke" not found

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help

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DictCC Commands
lookup <lang_in> <lang_out> <word>

Allows you to look up words you don't know.

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help command

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No command called "command" found.

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word

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seeing verbs

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explain seeing verbs

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In German, there are a few different verbs describing the act of seeing. The most important ones are sehen, schauen, zuschauen, anschauen, zusehen and ansehen.

🔸 sehen (sieht, sah, hat gesehen) is the closest translation to “see”. It indicates an ability to see something.
(1) Ich sehe dich. (I can see you.)
(2) Siehst du das Auto? (Can you see the car?)

🔸 schauen (schaut, schaute, hat geschaut) is similar to English “look”. It indicates that you are actively trying to see something or looking in a particular direction. You usually use it together with some prepositional phrase that indicates the target. Schauen does not take a direct object! The verb gucken means the same as schauen, which one is used is mostly regional.
(3) Ich schaue aus dem Fenster. (I am looking out of the window.)
(4) Sie schaute unter den Tisch. (She looked under the table.)
‼ There are a lot of idioms with schauen, such as nach jmdm. schauen “to look after someone” and auf etw. schauen “to guard sth.”

🔸 anschauen means “to look at sth”. You use it when indicating that you are looking at an object. zuschauen on the other hand indicates you’re looking at an action.
anschauen requires an accusative object, but zuschauen requires dative.
(5) Ich schaue die Landschaft an. (I am looking at the landscape.)
(6) Ich schaue den Kindern zu. (I am watching the children (doing sth).)

🔸 ansehen and zusehen mean the same thing as anschauen and zuschauen respectively.
(7) Sie sehen uns an. (They are looking at us.)

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Music Commands
current

Return information about the current song.

play <query>

Add a song to the queue.

skip

Skip the current song.

upnext

Show the queue.

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groups

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These groups are currently accessible
  • Grammar - Lessons! Subscribe for pings.
  • Reading - Lessons! Subscribe for pings.
  • Advancedreading - Like Reading but only B2+ level content.
  • Coding - For all the coding nerds.
  • Food - A group for food talks.
  • Gaming - All gaming-related topics.
  • Science - STEM-related topics.
  • Sciencepractice - For solving science problems.
  • Translation - Offers weekly sentences to translate.
  • Writing - Join to get weekly and monthly prompts!
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gr c

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:heavy_check_mark: I replaced your old CEFR role with Level C.

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help

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cefr a

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level A

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cefr A

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:heavy_check_mark: I replaced your old CEFR role with Level A.

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4 #general ID: 527276975149285406

Snowseidon

Jump to post
Who says I didn’t lick it

tender trellis
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-roles

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roles

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rr learning german

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rr Learning German

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Wot

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rr learning German

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:x: You do not have this role.

tender trellis
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rr Learning German

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:x: You do not have this role.

tender trellis
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rr Learning German

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:x: You do not have this role.

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cefr A

left cliff
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@tender trellis >gr

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gr Learning German

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Thanks

tender trellis
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ex beginner

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How to get started
The simplest way to learn German is to find topics you don’t understand yet and search for explanations of them. This list provides you with a guide for which topics to learn if you are completely new to German. Type the topic into Google (or YouTube) and start learning!

Introduction
1: Alphabet (especially ä, ü, ö and ß)
2: Basic greetings (hello, goodbye, etc.)

Part 1 - Simple Sentence
1: Noun gender & plurals
2: Nominative case (What are cases?)
3: Nominative pronouns (I, you, he, she, etc.)
4: Verbs in present tense
5: Definite/indefinite articles
6: Accusative case (for nouns)
7: Accusative pronouns
8: Word order of simple sentences
9: How to ask questions

Tips

  • Always learn the gender of a noun when you learn a new noun
  • Learn to use a translation dictionary (e.g. dict.cc, leo.org)
  • Use >faq resources to see our list of German learning resources
  • For listening and pronunciation practice, try watching movies or videos (incl. YouTube)
  • You can listen to pronunciation for words on websites like dict.cc, forvo.com, and others
  • Practice writing sentences every day (and asking people to correct them)
  • Ask as many questions as possible
  • Don’t be scared to make mistakes!!!! If you don’t let yourself make mistakes, you will never be able to learn German
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explain all

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  • Accusative [Akkusativ]
  • Adjective Declension [Adjektivdeklination]
  • also [so, so und also]
  • beginner [How to get started, Starting out]
  • beibringen [lernen, studieren, Study Vocabulary, unterrichten]
  • Beide [Beides, Beides vs. Beide, Beide vs. Beides]
  • Birthdays
  • case [Cases, grammatical case]
  • CEFR [CEFR levels]
  • CH [Schweiz, Switzerland]
  • Dativ [Dative]
  • denn [weil, weil, denn, da]
  • der-die-das [gender, genders, Grammatical gender]
  • duo [Duolingo]
  • Eszett [Scharfes S, ss, ß]
  • FAQ
  • Gender patterns
  • Genitiv [Genitive]
  • German keyboard [German letters, Keyboard]
  • Glossary [Grammar terms, Grammatical terms]
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help

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German Commands

Commands used by the German learning server.

cefr [role]

Assigns a role to you from a list of available roles.

removecefr <role>

Removes a previously assigned role.

verb <verb>

Get the conjugation for a verb you provided.

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beginner

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faq resources

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help cefr

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[cefr|getcefr|gr] [role]

Assigns a role to you from a list of available roles.
If you abuse this command, you will get blacklisted.

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help CEFR

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ex CEFR

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If you see something like A1, B2 or C1, these represent the proficiency of a speaker in a language they're not native in, and are called CEFR levels. They are valid for any language, not only German!
Roughly speaking, A levels are beginners and C levels are experts. Remember that CEFR level are self-assessed and indicative!
You can see more specific names and descriptions on the Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages

🗨 How do I know what level I am?
If the table on Wikipedia is too generic for you, you can try using this one here:
https://rm.coe.int/168045bb52
Just check each column one at a time: if you can do all it describes, move to the next column. Your level is the highest where you can do the most things.

Alternatively, you can use this questionnaire to estimate your level more accurately:
https://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/sites/laits.utexas.edu.fi/files/Self Assessment Checklist European.pdf

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@frank orbit which link are you referring to?

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The one at the very bottom

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The one to the questionaire

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It just doesnt lead anywhere for me

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@tender trellis

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It works for me

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It just says the thing‘s broken when I go on it

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ex beginner

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How to get started
The simplest way to learn German is to find topics you don’t understand yet and search for explanations of them. This list provides you with a guide for which topics to learn if you are completely new to German. Type the topic into Google (or YouTube) and start learning!

Introduction
1: Alphabet (especially ä, ü, ö and ß)
2: Basic greetings (hello, goodbye, etc.)

Part 1 - Simple Sentence
1: Noun gender & plurals
2: Nominative case (What are cases?)
3: Nominative pronouns (I, you, he, she, etc.)
4: Verbs in present tense
5: Definite/indefinite articles
6: Accusative case (for nouns)
7: Accusative pronouns
8: Word order of simple sentences
9: How to ask questions

Tips

  • Always learn the gender of a noun when you learn a new noun
  • Learn to use a translation dictionary (e.g. dict.cc, leo.org)
  • Use >faq resources to see our list of German learning resources
  • For listening and pronunciation practice, try watching movies or videos (incl. YouTube)
  • You can listen to pronunciation for words on websites like dict.cc, forvo.com, and others
  • Practice writing sentences every day (and asking people to correct them)
  • Ask as many questions as possible
  • Don’t be scared to make mistakes!!!! If you don’t let yourself make mistakes, you will never be able to learn German
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ex all

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  • gsw [Swiss German]
  • Homework [How to ask a question, Translation]
  • kein [Negation, nicht]
  • kennen [wissen, wissen und kennen]
  • KII 1 [Usage of Konjunktiv II]
  • KII 2 [Structure of Konjunktiv II]
  • Nach-In-Auf-Zu [Prepositions of Place Part 1]
  • N-Declension [N-Deklination, Weak Nouns]
  • Nominativ [Nominative]
  • Passiv [Passive]
  • Proposals [Suggestions]
  • Resource List [Resources]
  • schauen [seeing verbs, sehen]
  • Stative Passive [Zustandspassiv]
  • tias
  • um zu [Usage of zu]
  • verbs word order [Word Order for Verbs, word order verbs]
  • Vorgangspassiv
  • Word Order for Nouns & Pronouns [word order nouns, word order pronouns]
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Passive Voice
In English and German, a verb can have one of two voices which describe the relationship between the verb and the subject. These voices are the active voice and passive voice.

Typically, we use the active voice, where the subject is the doer or agent of the action. For example:

The man eats the apple.

In this sentence, the agent (the man) is acting upon (by eating) the object (the apple).

In the passive voice, the subject is the receiver or patient of the action. This typically places the emphasis on the patient or action, and the agent can be left out altogether if it is unknown or irrelevant. For example, the above sentence converted into the passive voice becomes:

The apple is being eaten.

In this example, the patient (the apple) is being acted upon (by being eaten) by an unknown agent.

German offers two passive forms: the Vorgangspassiv and the Zustandspassiv. The Vorgangspassiv refers to the process of an action, while the Zustandspassiv refers to the state of an action. The Vorgangspassiv is more often used and relates closely to the active voice. See >explain Vorgangspassiv for an explanation of the Vorgangspassiv, and see >explain Stative Passive for an explanation of Zustandspassiv.

See Also:
https://bit.ly/2Nqu84t (dartmouth university)
https://bit.ly/2y6iy9D (canoo)
https://bit.ly/2RyEodX (Passive Voice on Pferd's blog)

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  • Accusative [Akkusativ]
  • Adjective Declension [Adjektivdeklination]
  • also [so, so und also]
  • beginner [How to get started, Starting out]
  • beibringen [lernen, studieren, Study Vocabulary, unterrichten]
  • Beide [Beides, Beides vs. Beide, Beide vs. Beides]
  • Birthdays
  • case [Cases, grammatical case]
  • CEFR [CEFR levels]
  • CH [Schweiz, Switzerland]
  • Dativ [Dative]
  • denn [weil, weil, denn, da]
  • der-die-das [gender, genders, Grammatical gender]
  • duo [Duolingo]
  • Eszett [Scharfes S, ss, ß]
  • FAQ
  • Gender patterns
  • Genitiv [Genitive]
  • German keyboard [German letters, Keyboard]
  • Glossary [Grammar terms, Grammatical terms]

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ex also

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The German “also”
This word means “so, therefore”. It is used in the beginning of a sentence to show that what you’re about to say follows from what you said before:
(1) Er war müde, also ging er schlafen. (He was tired, so he went to sleep.)

You can put it in the middle of a sentence too, then it shows that you’re going back a topic or are reminding of it:
(2) Ich habe also mit ihm geredet… (and so/as I said, I spoke to him…)

A very similar use is also to start a sentence with a dragged out aaalso (=aaanyway).

⚠ You cannot use so in these sentences!

The German “so”
So has a few uses. Most of them correspond pretty directly to English “like this/that”. Perhaps the most normal use of it is to answer a “how” (wie) question:
(3) Wie geht das? — So! (How does one do that? — Like this!)

You can of course also use it this way if no one asked you a question:
(4) Er lief so herum. (He walked around like that. [could indicate e.g. walking style or clothing, depends on context])

Together with an indefinite noun it indicates that you care about the properties of that noun, and not the noun itself:
(5) Ich will so ein Haus. (I want a house like that [but not necessarily this particular one].)

Note that here, the proper question is not wie but was für ein:
(6) Was für ein Spiel willst du spielen? — So eins. (What kind of game do you want to play? — One like that)

Another very common way to use it is for emphasizing a size or amount. Just like in English, you may drag out the so for a bit to emphasize it even more:
(7) Das ist so schön! (This is so beautiful!)

The English “also”
English “also/too” straigtforwardly translates to German auch. There is no relation to German so/also here:
(8) Ich habe ihn auch gesehen. (I also saw him. / I saw him too.)

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ex CEFR

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If you see something like A1, B2 or C1, these represent the proficiency of a speaker in a language they're not native in, and are called CEFR levels. They are valid for any language, not only German!
Roughly speaking, A levels are beginners and C levels are experts. Remember that CEFR level are self-assessed and indicative!
You can see more specific names and descriptions on the Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages

🗨 How do I know what level I am?
If the table on Wikipedia is too generic for you, you can try using this one here:
https://rm.coe.int/168045bb52
Just check each column one at a time: if you can do all it describes, move to the next column. Your level is the highest where you can do the most things.

Alternatively, you can use this questionnaire to estimate your level more accurately:
https://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/sites/laits.utexas.edu.fi/files/Self Assessment Checklist European.pdf

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help

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lookup <lang_in> <lang_out> <word>

Allows you to look up words you don't know.

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cefr

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faq search IPA

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cefr level A1

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cefr level A

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faq search pronunciation

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remind

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cefr gaming

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cefr a

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group translation

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group

Commands for the central bot group system.

group info <group>

Gets information about a group.

group join <group>

Join a group

group joinall

Join all available groups at once.

group leave <group>

Leave an existing group.

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group coding

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group

Commands for the central bot group system.

group info <group>

Gets information about a group.

group join <group>

Join a group

group joinall

Join all available groups at once.

group leave <group>

Leave an existing group.

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ex all

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  • gsw [Swiss German]
  • Homework [How to ask a question, Translation]
  • International Phonetic Alphabet [IPA, Pronunciation, Sound transcription]
  • kein [Negation, nicht]
  • kennen [wissen, wissen und kennen]
  • KII 1 [Usage of Konjunktiv II]
  • KII 2 [Structure of Konjunktiv II]
  • Nach-In-Auf-Zu [Prepositions of Place Part 1]
  • N-Declension [N-Deklination, Weak Nouns]
  • Nominativ [Nominative]
  • Passiv [Passive]
  • Proposals [Suggestions]
  • Resource List [Resources]
  • schauen [seeing verbs, sehen]
  • Stative Passive [Zustandspassiv]
  • tias
  • um zu [Usage of zu]
  • verbs word order [Word Order for Verbs, word order verbs]
  • Vorgangspassiv
  • Word Order for Nouns & Pronouns [word order nouns, word order pronouns]
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ex Adjektivdeklination

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A Brief Guide to Memorizing German Noun and Adjective Declension by Basementality
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jWl5-kkqF3FQLDzrz8XLBJj7hvPFQK7MT5SYEDGK65E/edit

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ex bride

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Beide

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ex beide

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Both Beide and Beides mean "both", then how to differentiate them?

🔸 Use beide if the items are of the same kind.
🔸 If the items are different, use beides.
- Ich will beide Äpfel!

- Möchten Sie Ketchup oder Mayo?
- Beides, danke.

🔸 With people you always use beide.

🔸 Article or no article?
An article is used when the people described are doing something together.
- Die beide sind verlobt. (they are engaged to one another)
- Beide sind verlobt. (they are both engaged, each to their own significant other)

Note: other forms of beid* like beidem or beiden depend on grammatical case, see >explain case.

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Generally you use the preposition nach when talking about going to countries, cities or directions, for example:
(1) Ich fahre nach Berlin. (I’m going to Berlin.)
(2) Ich gehe nach Westen. (I’m going west.)
(3) Ich fahre nach Deutschland. (I'm going to Germany.)

‼ Note that nach does not work with countries or regions that take an article. In this case you need to replace it with in, for example: Ich fahre in die Schweiz. (I’m going to Switzerland.)
In addition to that you will need to use auf for specific islands, for example: Ich fliege auf die Balearen. (I fly to the Balearic Islands.)
Here you can find a map with countries that take an article: http://i.imgur.com/QRFA2WI.png

🌟 nach is also idiomatically used in nach Hause gehen (to go home)

The preposition zu is used when talking about going to people, or places with a proper name, for example:
(4) Ich gehe zu ihm. (I go to him.)
(5) Ich gehe zum [zu dem] Arzt. (I go to the doctor.)
(6) Ich gehe zu Aldi. (I go to Aldi.)

You use in if you will end up inside a place or location, for example:
(7) Ich gehe in die Kirche. (I go to church.)
(8) Ich gehe ins [in das] Kino. (I go to the cinema.)

You use auf if you will end up on something, or for going to formal events, for example:
(9) Ich klettere auf den Berg. (I climb up the mountain.)
(10) Ich gehe auf die Toilette. (I go to the toilet.)
(11) Ich gehe auf eine Party. (I go to a party.)

🌟 When in doubt, use zu, since you can often replace in and auf with zu, for example:
(12) Ich gehe zur Kirche. (I go to the church.) [but not necessarily inside]
(13) Ich gehe zu einer Party. (I go to a party.)

‼ However, note that you cannot replace zu with in if it would be absurd to speak of going inside:
(14) Ich fahre in die Kirche. (I drive into the church.)

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Translations for etwas werden aus
  1. This idea will never materialize.
  2. to become somewhat cheaper
  3. Something must be done.
  4. Have your pick.
  5. Take your pick!
  6. to make something of oneself
  7. to put a finer point on it / that
  8. to care for sth.
  9. to extrapolate sth. from something else
  10. He is brewing mischief.

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get role>Gaming

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get role>Gaming

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play

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play derspicito

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play ussr anthem

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oof

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skip

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play when i was high

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play despacito 2

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play lass sie gern

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skip

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play voglio vederti danzare

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play um die welt

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skip

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play ussr anthem

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skip

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play kalinka

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skip

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play radetzky marsch

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skip

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help

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join group gaming

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Ich bin der Größte kek

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sub to join a group

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a ja

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ex beginner

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How to get started
The simplest way to learn German is to find topics you don’t understand yet and search for explanations of them. This list provides you with a guide for which topics to learn if you are completely new to German. Type the topic into Google (or YouTube) and start learning!

Introduction
1: Alphabet (especially ä, ü, ö and ß)
2: Basic greetings (hello, goodbye, etc.)

Part 1 - Simple Sentence
1: Noun gender & plurals
2: Nominative case (What are cases?)
3: Nominative pronouns (I, you, he, she, etc.)
4: Verbs in present tense
5: Definite/indefinite articles
6: Accusative case (for nouns)
7: Accusative pronouns
8: Word order of simple sentences
9: How to ask questions

Tips

  • Always learn the gender of a noun when you learn a new noun
  • Learn to use a translation dictionary (e.g. dict.cc, leo.org)
  • Use >faq resources to see our list of German learning resources
  • For listening and pronunciation practice, try watching movies or videos (incl. YouTube)
  • You can listen to pronunciation for words on websites like dict.cc, forvo.com, and others
  • Practice writing sentences every day (and asking people to correct them)
  • Ask as many questions as possible
  • Don’t be scared to make mistakes!!!! If you don’t let yourself make mistakes, you will never be able to learn German
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help mememilly

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[memename|memenick|mememilly] [member]

Shuffles the consonants in the given member's nickname.

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mememilly @left cliff

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memename

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memename @robust mulch

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memename @frank orbit

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memename jowisz

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Test

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poor souls, trying their best brocko

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soon™

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?ranks

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¿ranks

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removecefr B

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My German is getting awful. I don't think I'm still level B

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I don't even know what happened to my german skills. I wasn't that awful

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cefr gaming

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join gaming

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uhh

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group join

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wait what was it

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yeah that

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or simply sub

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sub

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sub info

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you need to give it a group lmao

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@tender trellis sieht man irgendwo welche es alle gibt? xD

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dankii

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cat

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charinfo <characters>

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danke

Gerne.

dog

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freedisappointment <member> <message>

Bully your fellow users with this wonderful meme command.

friendshipendedwith <old_friend> <new_friend>

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help [command]

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quote <channel> <message>

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@silent shale

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<remind 20h diplo

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Information about Tartarus#6996
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Created

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Nur Deutsch with 8 others

Roles

@​everyone, Writing, Grammar, Gaming, Learning German

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<info @rare sierra

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The simplest way to learn German is to find topics you don’t understand yet and search for explanations of them. This list provides you with a guide for which topics to learn if you are completely new to German. Type the topic into Google (or YouTube) and start learning!

Introduction
1: Alphabet (especially ä, ü, ö and ß)
2: Basic greetings (hello, goodbye, etc.)

Part 1 - Simple Sentence
1: Noun gender & plurals
2: Nominative case (What are cases?)
3: Nominative pronouns (I, you, he, she, etc.)
4: Verbs in present tense
5: Definite/indefinite articles
6: Accusative case (for nouns)
7: Accusative pronouns
8: Word order of simple sentences
9: How to ask questions

Tips

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  • Learn to use a translation dictionary (e.g. dict.cc, leo.org)
  • Use >faq resources to see our list of German learning resources
  • For listening and pronunciation practice, try watching movies or videos (incl. YouTube)
  • You can listen to pronunciation for words on websites like dict.cc, forvo.com, and others
  • Practice writing sentences every day (and asking people to correct them)
  • Ask as many questions as possible
  • Don’t be scared to make mistakes!!!! If you don’t let yourself make mistakes, you will never be able to learn German
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  • Proposals [Suggestions]
  • Resource List [Resources]
  • schauen [seeing verbs, sehen]
  • Stative Passive [Zustandspassiv]
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Generally you use the preposition nach when talking about going to countries, cities or directions, for example:
(1) Ich fahre nach Berlin. (I’m going to Berlin.)
(2) Ich gehe nach Westen. (I’m going west.)
(3) Ich fahre nach Deutschland. (I'm going to Germany.)

‼ Note that nach does not work with countries or regions that take an article. In this case you need to replace it with in, for example: Ich fahre in die Schweiz. (I’m going to Switzerland.)
In addition to that you will need to use auf for specific islands, for example: Ich fliege auf die Balearen. (I fly to the Balearic Islands.)
Here you can find a map with countries that take an article: http://i.imgur.com/QRFA2WI.png

🌟 nach is also idiomatically used in nach Hause gehen (to go home)

The preposition zu is used when talking about going to people, or places with a proper name, for example:
(4) Ich gehe zu ihm. (I go to him.)
(5) Ich gehe zum [zu dem] Arzt. (I go to the doctor.)
(6) Ich gehe zu Aldi. (I go to Aldi.)

You use in if you will end up inside a place or location, for example:
(7) Ich gehe in die Kirche. (I go to church.)
(8) Ich gehe ins [in das] Kino. (I go to the cinema.)

You use auf if you will end up on something, or for going to formal events, for example:
(9) Ich klettere auf den Berg. (I climb up the mountain.)
(10) Ich gehe auf die Toilette. (I go to the toilet.)
(11) Ich gehe auf eine Party. (I go to a party.)

🌟 When in doubt, use zu, since you can often replace in and auf with zu, for example:
(12) Ich gehe zur Kirche. (I go to the church.) [but not necessarily inside]
(13) Ich gehe zu einer Party. (I go to a party.)

‼ However, note that you cannot replace zu with in if it would be absurd to speak of going inside:
(14) Ich fahre in die Kirche. (I drive into the church.)

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In German, there are a few different verbs describing the act of seeing. The most important ones are sehen, schauen, zuschauen, anschauen, zusehen and ansehen.

🔸 sehen (sieht, sah, hat gesehen) is the closest translation to “see”. It indicates an ability to see something.
(1) Ich sehe dich. (I can see you.)
(2) Siehst du das Auto? (Can you see the car?)

🔸 schauen (schaut, schaute, hat geschaut) is similar to English “look”. It indicates that you are actively trying to see something or looking in a particular direction. You usually use it together with some prepositional phrase that indicates the target. Schauen does not take a direct object! The verb gucken means the same as schauen, which one is used is mostly regional.
(3) Ich schaue aus dem Fenster. (I am looking out of the window.)
(4) Sie schaute unter den Tisch. (She looked under the table.)
‼ There are a lot of idioms with schauen, such as nach jmdm. schauen “to look after someone” and auf etw. schauen “to guard sth.”

🔸 anschauen means “to look at sth”. You use it when indicating that you are looking at an object. zuschauen on the other hand indicates you’re looking at an action.
anschauen requires an accusative object, but zuschauen requires dative.
(5) Ich schaue die Landschaft an. (I am looking at the landscape.)
(6) Ich schaue den Kindern zu. (I am watching the children (doing sth).)

🔸 ansehen and zusehen mean the same thing as anschauen and zuschauen respectively.
(7) Sie sehen uns an. (They are looking at us.)

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If you see something like A1, B2 or C1, these represent the proficiency of a speaker in a language they're not native in, and are called CEFR levels. They are valid for any language, not only German!
Roughly speaking, A levels are beginners and C levels are experts. Remember that CEFR level are self-assessed and indicative!
You can see more specific names and descriptions on the Wikipedia page:
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🗨 How do I know what level I am?
If the table on Wikipedia is too generic for you, you can try using this one here:
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Just check each column one at a time: if you can do all it describes, move to the next column. Your level is the highest where you can do the most things.

Alternatively, you can use this questionnaire to estimate your level more accurately:
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Usage of ZU
Zu is a word that has a lot of uses.
As a preposition it means “to/towards”. (see >ex Dative and >ex Prepositions of Place Part 1)

But it can also be used to indicate an infinitive/gerund in a sentence, for example:
(1) Es ist schwierig, Deutsch zu lernen. = “Learning German is hard.” or ”It’s hard to learn German.”
As you can see, the zu is placed before the infinitive verb that has no prefix or a non-separable prefix. For verbs with a separable prefix, the zu goes between the prefix and the verb with no space in between:
(2) Ich habe heute bloß vor, Essen einzukaufen. = I only plan to buy food today.

You can also see it in the um...zu structure, where it means ”in order to”.
The um goes to the beginning of the phrase and zu works the same way as explained above.
(3) Wir sind zum Supermarkt gegangen, um etwas Brot zu kaufen. = We went to the shop (in order) to buy some bread.
(4) Ich lerne Deutsch, um mit Deutschen reden zu können. = I am learning German (in order) to be able to speak to Germans.
‼you can use um...zu only if the people doing both actions are the same. So in the examples above:
• in (3) we go and we buy bread
• in (4) I learn and I speak
❌ *ich gebe ihm ein Geschenk, um er glücklich zu sein - This and other weird stuffs are WRONG!
🌟 Bonus: When you want to say in order to, but the subjects are different, you use the subordinate conjunction damit.

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How to get started
The simplest way to learn German is to find topics you don’t understand yet and search for explanations of them. This list provides you with a guide for which topics to learn if you are completely new to German. Type the topic into Google (or YouTube) and start learning!

Introduction
1: Alphabet (especially ä, ü, ö and ß)
2: Basic greetings (hello, goodbye, etc.)

Part 1 - Simple Sentence
1: Noun gender & plurals
2: Nominative case (What are cases?)
3: Nominative pronouns (I, you, he, she, etc.)
4: Verbs in present tense
5: Definite/indefinite articles
6: Accusative case (for nouns)
7: Accusative pronouns
8: Word order of simple sentences
9: How to ask questions

Tips

  • Always learn the gender of a noun when you learn a new noun
  • Learn to use a translation dictionary (e.g. dict.cc, leo.org)
  • Use >faq resources to see our list of German learning resources
  • For listening and pronunciation practice, try watching movies or videos (incl. YouTube)
  • You can listen to pronunciation for words on websites like dict.cc, forvo.com, and others
  • Practice writing sentences every day (and asking people to correct them)
  • Ask as many questions as possible
  • Don’t be scared to make mistakes!!!! If you don’t let yourself make mistakes, you will never be able to learn German
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  • "Next monday at 3am sleep"
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How to get started
The simplest way to learn German is to find topics you don’t understand yet and search for explanations of them. This list provides you with a guide for which topics to learn if you are completely new to German. Type the topic into Google (or YouTube) and start learning!

Introduction
1: Alphabet (especially ä, ü, ö and ß)
2: Basic greetings (hello, goodbye, etc.)

Part 1 - Simple Sentence
1: Noun gender & plurals
2: Nominative case (What are cases?)
3: Nominative pronouns (I, you, he, she, etc.)
4: Verbs in present tense
5: Definite/indefinite articles
6: Accusative case (for nouns)
7: Accusative pronouns
8: Word order of simple sentences
9: How to ask questions

Tips

  • Always learn the gender of a noun when you learn a new noun
  • Learn to use a translation dictionary (e.g. dict.cc, leo.org)
  • Use >faq resources to see our list of German learning resources
  • For listening and pronunciation practice, try watching movies or videos (incl. YouTube)
  • You can listen to pronunciation for words on websites like dict.cc, forvo.com, and others
  • Practice writing sentences every day (and asking people to correct them)
  • Ask as many questions as possible
  • Don’t be scared to make mistakes!!!! If you don’t let yourself make mistakes, you will never be able to learn German
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lookup info

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Commands for temporary sessions.
Groups are made of text and voice channels that are
temporarily created whenever a session is happening.
All groups are opt-in by default which means you
have to explicitly join them in order to be able
to access them.
Each group has moderators assigned to it who can
either start or end a group session and even ping
all members of it along with the ability to manage
messages within the group channel.

group

Commands for the central bot group system.

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  • Homework [How to ask a question, Translation]
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  • kennen [wissen, wissen und kennen]
  • KII 1 [Usage of Konjunktiv II]
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  • Resource List [Resources]
  • schauen [seeing verbs, sehen]
  • Stative Passive [Zustandspassiv]
  • tias
  • um zu [Usage of zu]
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How to get started
The simplest way to learn German is to find topics you don’t understand yet and search for explanations of them. This list provides you with a guide for which topics to learn if you are completely new to German. Type the topic into Google (or YouTube) and start learning!

Introduction
1: Alphabet (especially ä, ü, ö and ß)
2: Basic greetings (hello, goodbye, etc.)

Part 1 - Simple Sentence
1: Noun gender & plurals
2: Nominative case (What are cases?)
3: Nominative pronouns (I, you, he, she, etc.)
4: Verbs in present tense
5: Definite/indefinite articles
6: Accusative case (for nouns)
7: Accusative pronouns
8: Word order of simple sentences
9: How to ask questions

Tips

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  • Learn to use a translation dictionary (e.g. dict.cc, leo.org)
  • Use >faq resources to see our list of German learning resources
  • For listening and pronunciation practice, try watching movies or videos (incl. YouTube)
  • You can listen to pronunciation for words on websites like dict.cc, forvo.com, and others
  • Practice writing sentences every day (and asking people to correct them)
  • Ask as many questions as possible
  • Don’t be scared to make mistakes!!!! If you don’t let yourself make mistakes, you will never be able to learn German
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The verbs wissen and kennen both translate to know. However, in most cases they are not interchangeably.

You should use wissen with information or facts, for example:
(1) Ich weiß, dass er Peter heißt. (I know his name is Peter.)
(2) Ich weiß nicht, wie alt er ist. (I don't know how old he is.)
(3) Ich weiß, wo er wohnt. (I know where he lives.)
(4) Ich weiß es. (I know it.)

🌟Note that wissen almost always requires a subordinate clause which starts with either dass, wie, wann, wo, wer, or warum.

The verb kennen is used to express that you are familiar with a person, place or simply a thing, for example:
(5) Ich kenne Maria. (I know Maria.)
(6) Ich kenne diesen Fluss. (I know that river.)
(7) Ich kenne das Buch. (I know the book.)
(8) Ich kenne ihn. (I know him.)

🌟 Note that kennen almost always refers to a noun or pronoun.

‼ As with every rule, there are certain exceptions, in which you can use either, for example:
(9) Ich weiß/kenne den Weg. (I know the way.)
(10) Ich weiß/kenne deinen Namen (I know your name.)

Although they are often used interchangeably in this context, the general rules explained above still apply to them.
The wissen sentence is purely about knowing the way/name, while the kennen sentence also means that you already went that way a few times or have heard that name somewhere before.

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cefr Level A

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  • gsw [Swiss German]
  • Homework [How to ask a question, Translation]
  • International Phonetic Alphabet [IPA, Pronunciation, Sound transcription]
  • kein [Negation, nicht]
  • kennen [wissen, wissen und kennen]
  • KII 1 [Usage of Konjunktiv II]
  • KII 2 [Structure of Konjunktiv II]
  • Nach-In-Auf-Zu [Prepositions of Place Part 1]
  • N-Declension [N-Deklination, Weak Nouns]
  • Nominativ [Nominative]
  • Passiv [Passive]
  • Proposals [Suggestions]
  • Resource List [Resources]
  • schauen [seeing verbs, sehen]
  • Stative Passive [Zustandspassiv]
  • tias
  • um zu [Usage of zu]
  • verbs word order [Word Order for Verbs, word order verbs]
  • Vorgangspassiv
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German nouns are sorted in three different genders: masculine, neuter and feminine. These have nothing to do with sex or social gender.
The first thing genders will influence are articles like der, das, die. Each word has its own and you better get it right: some words that look identical can have different meanings depending on the gender they're used with. For example:
die Band = the (musical) band,
der Band = the (book) volume,
das Band = the tape.

Some words, mainly trademarks and loanwords, have multiple acceptable genders while having no change in meaning:
der Jogurt = das Jogurt
das Virus = der Virus
These may vary by region or colloquiality.

💢 But WHY, German, WHY
Gender is actually quite useful! Since sentence structure is less rigid than in English, grammatical case helps you tell the various elements apart (with some practice), and that works through genders: each gender has its own forms, which makes everything a little less ambiguous. Besides, as you've seen with Band above, it allows us to make up words with different meanings that look the same but are not ambiguous, and if that's not magic, I don't know what is. ✨

🙀 But how am I supposed to tell them apart? 🙀
Check out >explain gender patterns. 😉

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Unfortunately, many German words don't have immediately clear clues that reveal it, but thankfully, many common words do follow patterns that reveal their gender.
Plural forms always use die and follow plural declension rules, which are the same for all genders (yay 🎉).
Type >explain grammatical gender for an explanation on grammatical gender.

Here's a list of patterns to recognise word gender.
Note that exceptions may apply.

💙 Masculine words (der):

  • profession/role names (der Verkäufer, der Lehrer)
  • many elements of time (der Tag, der Monat, der Winter)
  • cardinal directions (der Norden, der Süden)
  • words ending in:
    -- -ig der König, der Teig
    -- -ling der Neuling, der Schwächling
    -- -ant der Praktikant, der Elefant
    -- -ismus der Faschismus, der Sozialismus

💚 Neuter words (das):

  • nominalised verbs (das Leben, das Lesen)
  • metals (das Gold, das Kupfer)
  • babies and cubs (das Baby, das Lamm)
  • diminutives in -chen/-lein (das Hündchen)
  • words ending in:
    -- -ment das Experiment, das Sakrament
    -- -ma (usually of Greek origin) das Komma, das Thema

Feminine words (die):

  • many words ending in -e (die Nase, die Kiste)
  • words ending in:
    -- -in (feminine professions/roles): die Verkäuferin, die Lehrerin
    -- -ei die Fischerei, die Bäckerei
    -- -schaft die Mannschaft, die Gemeinschaft
    -- -heit/-keit die Freiheit, die Gerechtigkeit
    -- -ung die Bedeutung, die Achtung
    -- -ion die Aktion, die Religion
    -- -ik die Logistik, die Logik
    -- -anz words of classical origin: die Allianz, die Toleranz
    -- -ur die Natur, die Kultur
    -- -tät die Professionalität, die Kriminalität
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How to get started
The simplest way to learn German is to find topics you don’t understand yet and search for explanations of them. This list provides you with a guide for which topics to learn if you are completely new to German. Type the topic into Google (or YouTube) and start learning!

Introduction
1: Alphabet (especially ä, ü, ö and ß)
2: Basic greetings (hello, goodbye, etc.)

Part 1 - Simple Sentence
1: Noun gender & plurals
2: Nominative case (What are cases?)
3: Nominative pronouns (I, you, he, she, etc.)
4: Verbs in present tense
5: Definite/indefinite articles
6: Accusative case (for nouns)
7: Accusative pronouns
8: Word order of simple sentences
9: How to ask questions

Tips

  • Always learn the gender of a noun when you learn a new noun
  • Learn to use a translation dictionary (e.g. dict.cc, leo.org)
  • Use >faq resources to see our list of German learning resources
  • For listening and pronunciation practice, try watching movies or videos (incl. YouTube)
  • You can listen to pronunciation for words on websites like dict.cc, forvo.com, and others
  • Practice writing sentences every day (and asking people to correct them)
  • Ask as many questions as possible
  • Don’t be scared to make mistakes!!!! If you don’t let yourself make mistakes, you will never be able to learn German
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ex beginner

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How to get started
The simplest way to learn German is to find topics you don’t understand yet and search for explanations of them. This list provides you with a guide for which topics to learn if you are completely new to German. Type the topic into Google (or YouTube) and start learning!

Introduction
1: Alphabet (especially ä, ü, ö and ß)
2: Basic greetings (hello, goodbye, etc.)

Part 1 - Simple Sentence
1: Noun gender & plurals
2: Nominative case (What are cases?)
3: Nominative pronouns (I, you, he, she, etc.)
4: Verbs in present tense
5: Definite/indefinite articles
6: Accusative case (for nouns)
7: Accusative pronouns
8: Word order of simple sentences
9: How to ask questions

Tips

  • Always learn the gender of a noun when you learn a new noun
  • Learn to use a translation dictionary (e.g. dict.cc, leo.org)
  • Use >faq resources to see our list of German learning resources
  • For listening and pronunciation practice, try watching movies or videos (incl. YouTube)
  • You can listen to pronunciation for words on websites like dict.cc, forvo.com, and others
  • Practice writing sentences every day (and asking people to correct them)
  • Ask as many questions as possible
  • Don’t be scared to make mistakes!!!! If you don’t let yourself make mistakes, you will never be able to learn German
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  • gsw [Swiss German]
  • Homework [How to ask a question, Translation]
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  • kein [Negation, nicht]
  • kennen [wissen, wissen und kennen]
  • KII 1 [Usage of Konjunktiv II]
  • KII 2 [Structure of Konjunktiv II]
  • Nach-In-Auf-Zu [Prepositions of Place Part 1]
  • N-Declension [N-Deklination, Weak Nouns]
  • Nominativ [Nominative]
  • Passiv [Passive]
  • Proposals [Suggestions]
  • Resource List [Resources]
  • schauen [seeing verbs, sehen]
  • Stative Passive [Zustandspassiv]
  • tias
  • um zu [Usage of zu]
  • verbs word order [Word Order for Verbs, word order verbs]
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  • Beide [Beides, Beides vs. Beide, Beide vs. Beides]
  • Birthdays
  • case [Cases, grammatical case]
  • CEFR [CEFR levels]
  • CH [Schweiz, Switzerland]
  • Dativ [Dative]
  • denn [weil, weil, denn, da]
  • der-die-das [gender, genders, Grammatical gender]
  • duo [Duolingo]
  • Eszett [Scharfes S, ss, ß]
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German Commands

Commands used by the German learning server.

cefr [role]

Assigns a role to you from a list of available roles.

removecefr <role>

Removes a previously assigned role.

verb <verb>

Get the conjugation for a verb you provided.

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nice

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Botty this scares me so

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To scare me less I changed it botty

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  1. jdn./etw. verachten
  2. hassen
  3. jdn./etw. verschmähen
  4. jdn./etw. geringschätzen
  5. jdn. despektieren
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What does she ask and what does she not say botty?

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I'm always amazed by the speed you're able to shitpost at, Arrim

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Hello lovely people!
We wanted to let you know that after a few months of waiting, our server has become a Discord partner. What this means for us all is that we get access to VIP servers, which should hopefully make everyone's connection a bit more stable, our voice chat will be prettier and less wonky and we even get a custom invite splash (which we will implement as soon as possible) plus a fancy custom invite.
https://discord.gg/german 🎉 🍰

I'd like to thank you all for your support. You all are an amazing community and it would not have been possible to achieve this without you. Thanks for keeping this server an awesome place to learn German together ❤

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faq gsw

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What is Swiss German?
Swiss German is the common name for the group of dialects native to Switzerland. It is closely related to the dialects of south-western Germany (e.g. Swabian), and to a lesser extent to the dialects of Austria and Bavaria.

What do you mean, group of dialects?
Because Swiss German is not standardized in any way, there is a lot of variety in how people speak. The differences aren’t large enough to impede understanding, but they are definitely noticable and range from vocabulary over different sounds being used to even differences in grammar!

If I speak German to a Swiss person, will I be understood?
Yes.
All Swiss German speakers have gone through several years of schooling held in Standard German and will definitely understand you without any problems. However, not all Swiss German speakers are very comfortable speaking it themselves, so keep that in mind.

If I want to move to Switzerland, do I have to learn Swiss German?
First of all, make sure to actually learn Standard German. You’ll need it more urgently. But if that’s out of the way, I would advise you to at least learn to understand it. Swiss people really appreciate it when they don’t have to speak Standard German. You don’t have to learn to speak it yourself to integrate. But feel free to try!

Where can I learn Swiss German?
Good question. There’s a collection of resources here: https://www.reddit.com/r/German/comments/abswl2/i_made_a_collection_of_resources_for_learning/
If you find something, let us know. If you have questions, you can always ask in #dialects.

What does it sound like?
It’s been variously described as everything from melodious to throat cancer. Best you just listen yourself:
https://youtu.be/h5-If3WKqfg (Dialect of Graubünden)
https://youtu.be/Gz2S9iggdzM (Slightly over the top comparison)
https://youtu.be/PkGatIgXERI (Classic Bern German song)

See also: >faq Switzerland, >faq Dialects

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Group Commands

Commands for temporary sessions.
Groups are made of text and voice channels that are
temporarily created whenever a session is happening.
All groups are opt-in by default which means you
have to explicitly join them in order to be able
to access them.
Each group has moderators assigned to it who can
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all members of it along with the ability to manage
messages within the group channel.

group

Commands for the central bot group system.

groups

List all groups this guild has.

sub <group>

Join an existing group.

unsub <group>

Leave an existing group

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cefr C

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:heavy_check_mark: I replaced your old CEFR role with Level C.

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well..

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DictCC Commands
lookup <lang_in> <lang_out> <word>

Allows you to look up words you don't know.

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  • CEFR [CEFR levels]
  • CH [Schweiz, Switzerland]
  • Dativ [Dative]
  • denn [weil, weil, denn, da]
  • der-die-das [gender, genders, Grammatical gender]
  • duo [Duolingo]
  • Eszett [Scharfes S, ss, ß]
  • FAQ
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  • Genitiv [Genitive]
  • German keyboard [German letters, Keyboard]
  • Glossary [Grammar terms, Grammatical terms]
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A command that helps you train and expand your vocabulary.

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etw. begegnen

A: to split up
B: to pay
C: to enhance
D: to respond to sth.

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A cog that lets you train your vocabulary.

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A command that helps you train and expand your vocabulary.

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faq

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faq help

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Accusative
The accusative case (der Akkusativ) is one of the four cases of the German language. A case affects how a noun or noun phrase is inflected, and indicates the role of the noun or noun phrase in a clause.

🗨 How do I decline in the accusative case?

Feminine and neuter nouns and adjectives are the same as nominative. Masculine nouns, adjectives (and weak nouns) gain an -en ending:

Ich esse den/einen/keinen kleinen Apfel.

Personal pronouns differ for:

ich --> mich
du --> dich
er --> ihn
wir --> uns
ihr --> euch

For a full explanation see >explain adjective declension

🗨 When do I use the accusative case?
The accusative case is mainly used:

- to mark the direct object of many transitive verbs
Ich lese einen Roman.
Er hat die schöne Frau ermordet.
Sie besitzen kein Auto.

- after some prepositions
Danke für deine Hilfe!
Ohne dich kann ich nicht leben.
Sie hatten keine Einwände gegen den Plan.

The following prepositions are always followed by the accusative case:

bis, durch, für, gegen, ohne, um

- to indicate movement in a particular direction in two-way prepositions
Er steigt auf den Gipfel.
Sie hängt das Bild an die Wand.
Ich gehe gleich ins Bett. (ins = in das)

- by adverbials of time and measurement
A definite length or point in time:
Ich habe den ganzen Tag geschlafen.
Sie kommt nächste Woche zurück.

A measurement:
Das Kind ist vier Jahre alt.
Das Tier ist einen Meter groß.

Expressing distance with verbs of motion:
Ich ging die Treppe hinauf.
Ich lief den ganzen Weg zu Fuß.

- in common greetings and wishes
Guten Morgen/Tag/Abend!
Gute Besserung!
Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

Here there is an implicit verb such as 'wünschen', where the greeting/wish is the direct object.

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How to get started
The simplest way to learn German is to find topics you don’t understand yet and search for explanations of them. This list provides you with a guide for which topics to learn if you are completely new to German. Type the topic into Google (or YouTube) and start learning!

Introduction
1: Alphabet (especially ä, ü, ö and ß)
2: Basic greetings (hello, goodbye, etc.)

Part 1 - Simple Sentence
1: Noun gender & plurals
2: Nominative case (What are cases?)
3: Nominative pronouns (I, you, he, she, etc.)
4: Verbs in present tense
5: Definite/indefinite articles
6: Accusative case (for nouns)
7: Accusative pronouns
8: Word order of simple sentences
9: How to ask questions

Tips

  • Always learn the gender of a noun when you learn a new noun
  • Learn to use a translation dictionary (e.g. dict.cc, leo.org)
  • Use >faq resources to see our list of German learning resources
  • For listening and pronunciation practice, try watching movies or videos (incl. YouTube)
  • You can listen to pronunciation for words on websites like dict.cc, forvo.com, and others
  • Practice writing sentences every day (and asking people to correct them)
  • Ask as many questions as possible
  • Don’t be scared to make mistakes!!!! If you don’t let yourself make mistakes, you will never be able to learn German
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If you see something like A1, B2 or C1, these represent the proficiency of a speaker in a language they're not native in, and are called CEFR levels. They are valid for any language, not only German!
Roughly speaking, A levels are beginners and C levels are experts. Remember that CEFR level are self-assessed and indicative!
You can see more specific names and descriptions on the Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages

🗨 How do I know what level I am?
If the table on Wikipedia is too generic for you, you can try using this one here:
https://rm.coe.int/168045bb52
Just check each column one at a time: if you can do all it describes, move to the next column. Your level is the highest where you can do the most things.

Alternatively, you can use this questionnaire to estimate your level more accurately:
https://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/sites/laits.utexas.edu.fi/files/Self Assessment Checklist European.pdf

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Information about Arrem#4798
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@proud obsidian

ID

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Created

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Ouija

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cefr level A/

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cefr A

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sub Ouija

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remind me 11am tomorrow send the fucking email you nipple

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remind me tomorrow 11am send the ficking email you nipple clamp

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star <message>

Stars a message via message ID.
To star a message you should right click on the on a message and then
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functionality.
A message needs to be present in the starboard in order for this command to work.
It is recommended that you react to a message with ⭐ instead.
You can only star a message once.

star random [member]

Shows a random starred message.

star show <message>

Shows a starred message via its ID.

star stats [member]

Shows statistics on the starboard usage of the server or a member.

star who <message>

Show who starred a message.

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The German “also”
This word means “so, therefore”. It is used in the beginning of a sentence to show that what you’re about to say follows from what you said before:
(1) Er war müde, also ging er schlafen. (He was tired, so he went to sleep.)

You can put it in the middle of a sentence too, then it shows that you’re going back a topic or are reminding of it:
(2) Ich habe also mit ihm geredet… (and so/as I said, I spoke to him…)

A very similar use is also to start a sentence with a dragged out aaalso (=aaanyway).

⚠ You cannot use so in these sentences!

The German “so”
So has a few uses. Most of them correspond pretty directly to English “like this/that”. Perhaps the most normal use of it is to answer a “how” (wie) question:
(3) Wie geht das? — So! (How does one do that? — Like this!)

You can of course also use it this way if no one asked you a question:
(4) Er lief so herum. (He walked around like that. [could indicate e.g. walking style or clothing, depends on context])

Together with an indefinite noun it indicates that you care about the properties of that noun, and not the noun itself:
(5) Ich will so ein Haus. (I want a house like that [but not necessarily this particular one].)

Note that here, the proper question is not wie but was für ein:
(6) Was für ein Spiel willst du spielen? — So eins. (What kind of game do you want to play? — One like that)

Another very common way to use it is for emphasizing a size or amount. Just like in English, you may drag out the so for a bit to emphasize it even more:
(7) Das ist so schön! (This is so beautiful!)

The English “also”
English “also/too” straigtforwardly translates to German auch. There is no relation to German so/also here:
(8) Ich habe ihn auch gesehen. (I also saw him. / I saw him too.)

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ex all

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  • Adjective Declension [Adjective endings, Adjektivdeklination]
  • also [so, so und also]
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  • beibringen [lernen, studieren, Study Vocabulary, unterrichten]
  • Beide [Beides, Beides vs. Beide, Beide vs. Beides]
  • Birthdays
  • case [Cases, grammatical case]
  • CEFR [CEFR levels]
  • CH [Schweiz, Switzerland]
  • Dativ [Dative]
  • denn [weil, weil, denn, da]
  • der-die-das [gender, genders, Grammatical gender]
  • duo [Duolingo]
  • Eszett [Scharfes S, ss, ß]
  • FAQ
  • Gender patterns
  • Genitiv [Genitive]
  • German keyboard [German letters, Keyboard]
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Accusative
Akkusativ

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Accusative
The accusative case (der Akkusativ) is one of the four cases of the German language. A case affects how a noun or noun phrase is inflected, and indicates the role of the noun or noun phrase in a clause.

🗨 How do I decline in the accusative case?

Feminine and neuter nouns and adjectives are the same as nominative. Masculine nouns, adjectives (and weak nouns) gain an -en ending:

Ich esse den/einen/keinen kleinen Apfel.

Personal pronouns differ for:

ich --> mich
du --> dich
er --> ihn
wir --> uns
ihr --> euch

For a full explanation see >explain adjective declension

🗨 When do I use the accusative case?
The accusative case is mainly used:

- to mark the direct object of many transitive verbs
Ich lese einen Roman.
Er hat die schöne Frau ermordet.
Sie besitzen kein Auto.

- after some prepositions
Danke für deine Hilfe!
Ohne dich kann ich nicht leben.
Sie hatten keine Einwände gegen den Plan.

The following prepositions are always followed by the accusative case:

bis, durch, für, gegen, ohne, um

- to indicate movement in a particular direction in two-way prepositions
Er steigt auf den Gipfel.
Sie hängt das Bild an die Wand.
Ich gehe gleich ins Bett. (ins = in das)

- by adverbials of time and measurement
A definite length or point in time:
Ich habe den ganzen Tag geschlafen.
Sie kommt nächste Woche zurück.

A measurement:
Das Kind ist vier Jahre alt.
Das Tier ist einen Meter groß.

Expressing distance with verbs of motion:
Ich ging die Treppe hinauf.
Ich lief den ganzen Weg zu Fuß.

- in common greetings and wishes
Guten Morgen/Tag/Abend!
Gute Besserung!
Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

Here there is an implicit verb such as 'wünschen', where the greeting/wish is the direct object.

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weil vs denn vs da
These are the three common causal conjunctions in German: weil, denn, and da. They are all used to introduce a cause or reason to something and are analagous to 'because' or 'since' in English.

So what are the differences between them?
The main difference is the placement of the verb. denn is a coordinating conjunction, so it introduces a main clause and the verb is the second element:

Ich habe einen Apfel gegessen, denn ich hatte Hunger.

weil and da are subordinating conjunctions, so introduce subordinate clauses, where the verb is (usually) the last element:

Ich habe einen Apfel gegessen, weil/da ich Hunger hatte.

Subordinating conjunctions can introduce a sentence:

Weil/da ich Hunger hatte, habe ich einen Apfel gegessen.

But this does not work with a coordinating conjunction like denn:

Denn ich hatte Hunger, habe ich einen Apfel gegessen.

What are the other differences?
There are many subtle differences in usage between them that you can only really learn by immersion. However, there are a few of note:

da is similar to English 'as' or 'since', in that it often precedes a main clause and introduces a reason that is already known.

weil can have qualifiers like nur, but this does not work (or sounds pecuilar) with the other conjunctions:

Ich habe ihn festgenommen, nur weil ich sein Grinsen nicht mochte.

It can also have a 'placeholder' adverb, like darum, deshalb, or deswegen, in a main clause, where it points to the subordinate clause:

Er konnte deswegen nicht kommen, weil er krank war.

When should I use which?
You can use whichever one you like and you will be understood. However, weil is widely favoured in spoken language, followed by da. denn is not common in spoken language, but still fairly common in written language.

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@mighty nebula can you do >faq create a b

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I think I need to give you a role for that to work

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I'll try

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Lmao.

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Eee what was the command.

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Great.

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I'm pretty sure it's curators and not community but we'll see lmao.

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Oh yeah it is, you're in the channel.

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What's curators and can I join

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It's for people who write FAQ entries. Yes if you're gonna write FAQ entries.

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"ich tu mich beeilen" - @mighty nebula 2019

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Naja, ich versuche gerade eben, alle Facetten dochs kurz und knapp zu erklären und das ist nicht einfach :^) bin aber gleich fertig

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"gleich" - @mighty nebula an hour ago loleyes

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faq gleich hätte ich auch gerne. Bei dir heißt das immer was anderes. mmlol

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Oh no.

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Ich muss doch einen ordentlichen Text schreiben. loleyes

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@tender trellis hello Mr removes shit entries from the DB manually man. Please do your job. mmlol

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I'd like 210 please.

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@mighty nebula next one for you to write. loleyes

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Life is mine 🤗 Also yeah, that's a good one, will write it after doch :^)

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make sure it's under 2k chars and post it in #curators before actually creating the entry pretty please

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Given that she's been writing for hours I'm expecting a novel.

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Will do :^)

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Well you can always split it in parts 1 through 15.

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*chapters

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Sind Nachrichten eigentlich automatisch weniger als 2000 Zeichen lang?

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Alles klar, dann passe ich darauf auf :^)

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Ah, ich bin gerade nur bei 1100, lol

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Just ask cow to add it to the DB manually so it can be exactly 2K. loleyes

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Are you adding formatting?

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Yes

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Imagine an unformatted faq entry 😩

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Good. You're not fired.

thin iris
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I can write faq

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cefr Level B

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:heavy_check_mark: I replaced your old CEFR role with Level B.

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play childish flamingo

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ex beginner

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How to get started
The simplest way to learn German is to find topics you don’t understand yet and search for explanations of them. This list provides you with a guide for which topics to learn if you are completely new to German. Type the topic into Google (or YouTube) and start learning!

Introduction
1: Alphabet (especially ä, ü, ö and ß)
2: Basic greetings (hello, goodbye, etc.)

Part 1 - Simple Sentence
1: Noun gender & plurals
2: Nominative case (What are cases?)
3: Nominative pronouns (I, you, he, she, etc.)
4: Verbs in present tense
5: Definite/indefinite articles
6: Accusative case (for nouns)
7: Accusative pronouns
8: Word order of simple sentences
9: How to ask questions

Tips

  • Always learn the gender of a noun when you learn a new noun
  • Learn to use a translation dictionary (e.g. dict.cc, leo.org)
  • Use >faq resources to see our list of German learning resources
  • For listening and pronunciation practice, try watching movies or videos (incl. YouTube)
  • You can listen to pronunciation for words on websites like dict.cc, forvo.com, and others
  • Practice writing sentences every day (and asking people to correct them)
  • Ask as many questions as possible
  • Don’t be scared to make mistakes!!!! If you don’t let yourself make mistakes, you will never be able to learn German
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Botty bist du sauer mit mir?

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explain all

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  • Accusative [Akkusativ]
  • Adjective Declension [Adjective endings, Adjektivdeklination]
  • also [so, so und also]
  • beginner [How to get started, Starting out]
  • beibringen [lernen, studieren, Study Vocabulary, unterrichten]
  • Beide [Beides, Beides vs. Beide, Beide vs. Beides]
  • Birthdays
  • case [Cases, grammatical case]
  • CEFR [CEFR levels]
  • CH [Schweiz, Switzerland]
  • Dativ [Dative]
  • denn [weil, weil, denn, da]
  • der-die-das [gender, genders, Grammatical gender]
  • duo [Duolingo]
  • Eszett [Scharfes S, ss, ß]
  • FAQ
  • Gender patterns
  • Genitiv [Genitive]
  • German keyboard [German letters, Keyboard]
  • Glossary [Grammar terms, Grammatical terms]

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Both Beide and Beides mean "both", then how to differentiate them?

🔸 Use beide if the items are of the same kind.
🔸 If the items are different, use beides.
- Ich will beide Äpfel!

- Möchten Sie Ketchup oder Mayo?
- Beides, danke.

🔸 With people you always use beide.

🔸 Article or no article?
An article is used when the people described are doing something together.
- Die beide sind verlobt. (they are engaged to one another)
- Beide sind verlobt. (they are both engaged, each to their own significant other)

Note: other forms of beid* like beidem or beiden depend on grammatical case, see >explain case.

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Duolingo is a decent resource to start with if you're a complete beginner, but it's neither efficient nor comprehensive!

What Duolingo will teach you about grammar is very limited, and none of the systems they use will help you practise much of it.
You can learn some vocabulary with it, but their method (based on the concept of spaced repetition) doesn't work for everybody, and the way Duolingo teaches is not very effective compared to the amount of time it requires from you.

So, if you find it useful, by all means keep using it, but remember not to fall for its gamification of language learning, and move past it when it stops being beneficial. Ignore the "streaks".

In any case, keep in mind that Duolingo is not enough to learn a language, ever.

If you're looking for guidance or alternatives, check out >faq beginner in our #botchannel .

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How to get started
The simplest way to learn German is to find topics you don’t understand yet and search for explanations of them. This list provides you with a guide for which topics to learn if you are completely new to German. Type the topic into Google (or YouTube) and start learning!

Introduction
1: Alphabet (especially ä, ü, ö and ß)
2: Basic greetings (hello, goodbye, etc.)

Part 1 - Simple Sentence
1: Noun gender & plurals
2: Nominative case (What are cases?)
3: Nominative pronouns (I, you, he, she, etc.)
4: Verbs in present tense
5: Definite/indefinite articles
6: Accusative case (for nouns)
7: Accusative pronouns
8: Word order of simple sentences
9: How to ask questions

Tips

  • Always learn the gender of a noun when you learn a new noun
  • Learn to use a translation dictionary (e.g. dict.cc, leo.org)
  • Use >faq resources to see our list of German learning resources
  • For listening and pronunciation practice, try watching movies or videos (incl. YouTube)
  • You can listen to pronunciation for words on websites like dict.cc, forvo.com, and others
  • Practice writing sentences every day (and asking people to correct them)
  • Ask as many questions as possible
  • Don’t be scared to make mistakes!!!! If you don’t let yourself make mistakes, you will never be able to learn German
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group

Commands for the central bot group system.

group list

List all groups this server has.

group members <group>

Get a list of all group members for a group.

group mine

List all groups that you've joined.

group moderators <group>

Get a list of all moderators for a group.

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These groups are currently accessible
  • Ouija
  • Grammar - Lessons! Subscribe for pings.
  • Reading - Lessons! Subscribe for pings.
  • Advancedreading - Like Reading but only B2+ level content.
  • Coding - For all the coding nerds.
  • Food - A group for food talks.
  • Gaming - All gaming-related topics.
  • Science - STEM-related topics.
  • Sciencepractice - For solving science problems.
  • Translation - Offers weekly sentences to translate.
  • Writing - Join to get weekly and monthly prompts!
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Commands for the central bot group system.

group info <group>

Gets information about a group.

group join <group>

Join a group

group joinall

Join all available groups at once.

group leave <group>

Leave an existing group.

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group join Science

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:x: You're already in this group.

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❌ Bad argument: name is a required argument that is missing.

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