general-2

[fair iron]

When using one as a personal pronoun.

[pine ginkgo]

oh

that's better

🤔

[sturdy shadow]

@pallid kelp cyberpunk cat girls?

Like the ones i see on deviantart all the time?

Mecha catgirls with neon lines and swords?

Count me in!

[pine ginkgo]

mecha cyberpunk cattrapgirls?

🤔

[steel quest]

Ty Casca

[pallid kelp]

yeah that kind of stuff too, Erik

it's gonna be great, if I ever finish

which I won't guarantee

[sturdy shadow]

I'll maybe support you

[opal sequoia]

How much grammar?

[pallid kelp]

If by basic grammar you mean the bare minimum and by 4000 words you don't mean function words (we count those in grammar)
Then you'd probably sound like a veeery nerdy a2, I suppose. Or someone that made a very specific effort not to learn non-basic grammar

[opal sequoia]

The CEFR levels are mostly described in terms of being able to communicate rather than any specific vocab or grammar, so that's probably a better thing to look at anyway.

Except perhaps in the context of an official test.

[pallid kelp]

Well, no, it's true even for official tests, but they do try to give a more exact interpretation to each level by creating gates and requirements for them

[opal sequoia]

Yeah.

[ocean robin]

👀

WTF

are you human

[opal sequoia]

When you start having conversations in German then people will be better able to tell what your level is.

Du solltest nun versuchen, das zu tun. 😄

[fair iron]

Does the day draw near during which we'll finally hear you speak in German? 😮

[sudden panther]

Eh there's a bit of a difference between binge studying and actually understanding and feeling comfortable with what you've learned. Languages take practice. 😉

[opal sequoia]

Was meinst du, Arrem? Man könnte nicht eine ganze Sprache schlagartig kennenlernen?

[pine ginkgo]

könnte

[opal sequoia]

Danke.

[sudden panther]

Eh. Not sure how that would work with grammar.

[pallid kelp]

that would not work at all with languages

in general it doesn't really work with anything that has to be learned

it's good to pass tests but not much more than that, and language tests that are worthy of their name are too complex to be passed with raw memory

[sudden panther]

Totally Berz. Like the Duolingo placement test.

[sturdy shadow]

https://darkdestroyer39.tumblr.com/post/162971606095/this-is-beautiful

This is the best thing ever

[pallid kelp]

🙄

[whole rapids]

Does someone want to do our "translate random sentences" game?

[ocean robin]

YES but in 1 hr for me

[whole rapids]

Okay, that works for me too.

[forest verge]

flappers

did you dad or whatever hear us

[sudden panther]

Pferd. Translate a sentence for us.

[whole rapids]

Pferd. Übersetz einen Satz für uns.

[ocean robin]

no coal

[sudden panther]

wat 4 coal?

[fair iron]

Dat 4 coal.

[thick charm]

Wat is dat 4 1 Koal

[fair iron]

Das musse de Coal selb frag.

I weiß net.

[whole rapids]

Mit zwei Kohlen und einem Eisenerz kann man einen Stahlbar schmeiden.

[fair iron]

einen *Stahlbarren *schmieden. ^^

[whole rapids]

Danke Sir Casca.

Herr des Westens.

[fair iron]

😊

[whole rapids]

Hast du vergessen? @ocean robin

[fair iron]

Sie wollte übersetzen, oder nicht?

[whole rapids]

Ja, ich glaube schon.

[hot cloak]

Hallo

[fair iron]

[ocean robin]

I was so busy for things for tommorow, sorry. :(

[fair iron]

What about now?

^^

[ocean robin]

I am going to sleep. :(

but give me one quick

[fair iron]

German to English, or English to German?

[ocean robin]

English to German.

[fair iron]

- I hope that you will be well rested in the morning. :)

[ocean robin]

Ich hoffe, dass du am Morgen ausgeruht sein werde.

wtf casca was that

I am even not sure about the order

[fair iron]

*wirst.

Apart from that, it was perfect! 😃

Anyway, sleep well, Flappy.

[ocean robin]

owo I was correct

Thank you Casca.

[fair iron]

You mentioned wanting another sentence?

[ocean robin]

Yep!

[fair iron]

- This server is celebrating its birthday!```

[ocean robin]

hehehe

"Dieses Server feiert seinen Geburtstag!" 🤔

[fair iron]

💯

You'll be level B in no time. 😃

Now get some rest, Flappy. ^^

[ocean robin]

:0

holy shiet

[fair iron]

*Dieser.

[ocean robin]

Gute Nacht dann.

[fair iron]

Missed that, sorry.

[ocean robin]

wait that is der Server?

[fair iron]

Yes.

[ocean robin]

Damn, always thought it was das.

[fair iron]

Schlaf gut!

[ocean robin]

[minor heart]

Tfw wanna be like flappy and be good at math and german

:c

[fair iron]

We can help you with both. 😃

[sudden panther]

Being good at math is easy. Just use

[sudden panther]

erry day

[fair iron]

Write this in your next exam:

return eval(question)```

^^

[ocean robin]

just use fancy algebra everyday

ok I'll sleep

[minor heart]

night flap

[ocean robin]

[sudden panther]

nowsleepgoodnite

[fair iron]

[minor heart]

rip

[lost dagger]

I never really was interested in Cro but Einmal um die Welt came on on a playlist a friend made and I really like the refrain

[green depot]

Cro ❤

[shy bobcat]

Cro 😒

[green depot]

Iced Tea 😒

[shy bobcat]

True

I hate iced tea honestly

My name is more for the "Arizona" bit lol

[green depot]

That's understandable

[shy bobcat]

Hot tea is much better lol

[lost dagger]

definitely

though I've made half iced black tea half lemonade with lots of mint and it was really good

[shy bobcat]

And counterintuitively is better for cooling down because it makes you sweat, that's what the Arabs did

And since it's stupid hot here as well, I do it as well

[lost dagger]

My friend is like "look how easily I bruise" and kicks the counter with her shin then collapses in pain

of course you bruise

when you do that

[proven cedar]

your friend is very smart

[still hazel]

Very

[hot cloak]

Not gonna lie, that's prolly something I'd do

[still hazel]

Prolly

All abord the "prolly trolley"

[hot cloak]

Hardy har har

Don't you have a bed time Schuh

Shoo shoo off you go, lil kids should be resting up for school 👀 👀

[still hazel]

Lol

I'm helping my brother out

His girlfriend broke up with him

And she was so nice, we were really close friends

So he's trying to talk to her one more time before he goes home

[full falcon]

Maybe you can still keep contact

[still hazel]

🙁

I will try... We were quite good friends

[full falcon]

It'd be sad when you break up with someone to break contact with the whole family if you had a good relationship with them

[still hazel]

Yeah

She had good reasons, I'm not mad

[full falcon]

Of course it could be a bit awkward for your brother but maybe he can understand

[still hazel]

I just feel horrible for my bro

[hot cloak]

Woah wait, weren't they gonna get married tho

[full falcon]

yeah :/

[still hazel]

He's broken-heated

Oh not them

My other brother

The oldest brother is engaged

[hot cloak]

Oh. Can't keep track

Yikesese

[still hazel]

The middle just broke up with like a 8 year relationship

Heyy

[hot cloak]

Good god get the man a bucket of B&Js

Hi Eine

[toxic urchin]

Ice cream helps

[hot cloak]

Ben and Jerry's

[full falcon]

ben & jerry's

[toxic urchin]

Ben and jerry

[hot cloak]

Best ice cream

[full falcon]

Yeah no not that Die Eine

:')

[hot cloak]

[toxic urchin]

well that helps too

[hot cloak]

😂

[full falcon]

xD

[hot cloak]

Incest is nocest

[toxic urchin]

r/nocontext

oh wait I get it

[opal sequoia]

[hot cloak]

Rip the guy just broke up with his gf, it's past midnight, and no one is sight but schuh

u secretly thirsty eine

What is it ?

[toxic urchin]

its a game

also guys what do you think of cyronics?

Cryonics*

[hot cloak]

Sci fi dream

Interesting tho

[toxic urchin]

I don't think it's something thats impossible

[hot cloak]

Not at all. Probably in the near future, we can do it. But not right now, I don't think

[toxic urchin]

Have you read about water bears?

[hot cloak]

Plenty of inventions come from sci fi lol

Nope

[toxic urchin]

its not that actual name

lemme google

Tardigrade

These guys can survive in space

[hot cloak]

Ohhh I've seen pictures

Yeah

Huh

[toxic urchin]

I meant revival

[hot cloak]

Well, I figure it's not like something quit out of a Robert Heinlein book lol

Then there's the idea of freezing people to make then live longer

Cryo chambers

[toxic urchin]

From what I have read the current tech cant prevent cell damage

[hot cloak]

Yeah

Severe cold

[toxic urchin]

The cells become dehydrated and compress and they use some chemicals that are toxic for organs

"Revival would require repairing damage from lack of oxygen, cryoprotectant toxicity, thermal stress (fracturing), freezing in tissues that do not successfully vitrify, and reversing the effects that caused death. In many cases extensive tissue regeneration would be necessary"

Man tardigrades are badass

the longest that living tardigrades have been shown to survive in a dry state is nearly 10 years

[minor heart]

@ocean robin I'm ready for our game

[ocean robin]

oooowi

We need a native though 🤔 or a B or C level

[minor heart]

true

Shuld poke some see if they are up or something

[ocean robin]

yeah

[thick charm]

I could help you, maybe

What would I need to do?

[minor heart]

yay

[ocean robin]

yaaay

[minor heart]

Just say something in english and we have to translate it

I think thats how it goes?

[thick charm]

Oh just like Base did it?

[ocean robin]

Yup yup.

[thick charm]

RIght so let me think of something

[bitter rune]

The cat was run over by a sports car.

[ocean robin]

🤔

oh wait passive

[toxic urchin]

The car was run over by a sports cat

[ocean robin]

was run over 🤔 Why was I thinking about laufen

[thick charm]

"The panda was eating bamboo leaves as his dinner, which he seemed to enjoy very much"

[ocean robin]

🤔

[thick charm]

How about that one

I was rummaging through news articles I've read today and that's the only sentence that seemed both easy enough to translate while still being complicated enough to be a challenge.

[minor heart]

🛑 slow down pls xd

[twilit garden]

Panda eating bamboo:

https://streamable.com/9evsw

[ocean robin]

:0

LOL

[thick charm]

So you want it to be easier then, Dac?

[ocean robin]

ok Nemo

[mild cosmos]

if a noun is nominative in the first clause of a sentence, and you want to use a pronoun to refer back to that noun in a subordinating clause, do you still use the nominative pronoun? Zum Beispiel "Das ist der Mann, der ich nicht mag."

[minor heart]

for me atleast

[ocean robin]

By the way hi.

[twilit garden]

hi

[minor heart]

flappy is better at it than me

but we still play together

[ocean robin]

👀

[minor heart]

she'll prolly hit b1 before me

[ocean robin]

lol wat

[thick charm]

No, since "ich" becomes the subject of the subordinate clause there. It would be ", den ich nicht mag"

[mild cosmos]

ok danke.

[thick charm]

So... an easier sentence for Dac.

[ocean robin]

Let's translate Chuck's sentence

[thick charm]

This is hard you guys

didn't know I was that uncreative

[minor heart]

plus I just woke up

[ocean robin]

LOL

[thick charm]

"There is tasty coffee in my coffee mug."

[minor heart]

Das ist schwierig... I dunno "you guys"

[thick charm]

Oh no that was just me complaining about things

the one in quotation marks was meant to be the sentence

[minor heart]

oh

🤦🏻

[ocean robin]

"Der Pandabär war Bambusblätter as Abendessen gegessen, was er vielmals zu genießen schein."

brah

wat was that chuck

[thick charm]

I'M SORRY

[ocean robin]

whai

[thick charm]

Didn't think that one was going to be that complicated

[ocean robin]

🤔

wher are my mistakez

[grand seal]

It's passive voice, right? That one is giving me trouble as well.

[ocean robin]

passive voice where? 🤔

[thick charm]

Turns out I'm bad at this.

[ocean robin]

oh look solet is here

[thick charm]

Luna is on the case

[ocean robin]

gonna take the red pen

[pine ginkgo]

i am sure "as" is not real word in german outside of music

🤔

[ocean robin]

🤔

wat are you talking about

Did I just say as?

[pine ginkgo]

shouldn't you know what you were writing

🤔

[ocean robin]

🤔

oh yeah

[grand seal]

Als > as

[ocean robin]

am I wanted to write

"Am Abendessen"

[pine ginkgo]

i am not sure if you are wanted to write

why are you wanted to write

🤔

[ocean robin]

🤔

[thick charm]

So you got the gist of it right, that's a good thing. The first thing here is "war" in the first sentence, since that's generally only used for verbs that indicate movement or any type of change to the subject "Er war gelaufen, er war gegangen, er war verändert". There's another word here you should be using, do you happen to know which one it could be?

[ocean robin]

🤔

mmmh

No, I can't see dat verb in my mind

[thick charm]

hat

instead of war

er hat gegessen

[ocean robin]

OH YEAH

goddamit, I think it's because it was past that I didn't think of hat

🤔

[thick charm]

The second thing I want to mention is the use of "vielmals" here. While it is a feasible translation of "very much", it's generally only used in a sense of "multiple times". The adverb you'd want to use here is "sehr."

[ocean robin]

I thought of that first

[thick charm]

Then go with your gut feeling the next time

And for the third and last thing, you flipped around two letters in your last word.

[ocean robin]

goddamn

typo comes again

[thick charm]

So knowing that, do you think you could rewrite the sentence?

[ocean robin]

yep let me do dat

[pine ginkgo]

one day flappsy will make a sentence without mistakes and typos

i believe!

[ocean robin]

:D/

"Der Pandabär hat Bambusblätter am Abendessen gegessen, was er sehr zu genießen schien."

[sudden panther]

as

[ocean robin]

god

forgot dat

[pine ginkgo]

i stopped believing

[sudden panther]

Oh no.

[thick charm]

DONT STOP

BELIEVING

[pine ginkgo]

not sure how you are doing it, btw

[thick charm]

HOLD ON TO THAT FEELELELELELING

[sudden panther]

IN THE SHAPE OF AN L ON HER FOREHEAD

[pine ginkgo]

but it's way better to completely rewrite the sentence from scratch

than to copy and then fixing the mistakes

[ocean robin]

DOING WHAT

OH YEAH

🤔

[minor heart]

I go to use the restroom

[pine ginkgo]

shut up let me finish

[minor heart]

I come back

.>

What

[ocean robin]

owo

[grand seal]

Lmao

[thick charm]

We're just singing a musical number

Arrem and Chuck in concert

on ice

[pine ginkgo]

yep

oh chuck

did you see

[sudden panther]

Oooh. I do like ice.

[ocean robin]

🤔

[pine ginkgo]

the photos from pax of that one guy wearing a portable melee machine?

[ocean robin]

wat

[pine ginkgo]

it was pretty amazing and you should also get one, chuck

[thick charm]

Oh yes I did

Time for them to finally port Melee to the Switch

Right so, Dac, do you want to try to translate the sentence I gave you?

"There is tasty coffee in my coffee mug."

[ocean robin]

yum

wait dac wher ar yu

[pine ginkgo]

dac died :(

[ocean robin]

nuuuuuh

let me translate it then

withiut typos i hope

*without

[minor heart]

uh yea

Dac kept getting distracted

sorry

[pine ginkgo]

flappsy to the rescue!

[thick charm]

withiut typos i hope not a good start there Flappsy

[ocean robin]

yes :(

[minor heart]

Es gibt lecker Kaffee in meiner Kaffee-tasse(?)

I feel like something is wrong

[pine ginkgo]

not quite

it works colloquially

[minor heart]

I didnt know mug so i made something up

[thick charm]

Kaffeetasse is the correct translation, amazingly enough

[ocean robin]

WOOO

[pine ginkgo]

but not written correctly

:D

but yeah, correct words

[ocean robin]

:(

[minor heart]

surprised

[pine ginkgo]

yo dac

[ocean robin]

Lol Tasse is mug in French

[pine ginkgo]

what is "lecker"

what type of word

[ocean robin]

:0

[minor heart]

🤔

[ocean robin]

leckerer

[minor heart]

adjective?

[thick charm]

no flaPPS

[ocean robin]

[pine ginkgo]

yes

and what happens to adjectives in sentences

🤔

[ocean robin]

🤔

[minor heart]

uhh

[pine ginkgo]

especially if you pair them with another word

🤔

[ocean robin]

🤔

[minor heart]

Uhm

[thick charm]

LEGGER KAFFEE

[pine ginkgo]

flappsy, you can answer too

[minor heart]

bitte flappy

[ocean robin]

leckeres Mädchen

[pine ginkgo]

good step

[thick charm]

🤔

[pine ginkgo]

but that's not an answer

[ocean robin]

declinaison

[pine ginkgo]

yes!

[ocean robin]

like errm what was the sentence again

[pine ginkgo]

"There is tasty coffee in my coffee mug"

[ocean robin]

AH

mmmh so no article

[minor heart]

Leckere kaffee?

[pine ginkgo]

what is the gender of kaffee

[ocean robin]

der?

[pine ginkgo]

yep

[minor heart]

Der Kaffee

[ocean robin]

GOD FOR ONCE I UAVE GENDERS RIGHT

[minor heart]

But you still said uave

C:

jk ❤

[thick charm]

she meant to say suave

[pine ginkgo]

and now the case?

[thick charm]

as in

She is very suave

[ocean robin]

lol

[minor heart]

yuh

[ocean robin]

*have

accusative because what is in the mug, coffee

[thick charm]

WHATS IN THE MUUUUUG

[ocean robin]

WOOOO COFFEE

[thick charm]

You want to drink your morning coffee but there is no coffee in the mug, just the head of Brad Pitt's wife.

That's how I like to start my days

[pine ginkgo]

well, dac?

[ocean robin]

i am sorry bit I lile tea better

*like goddamn

PHONE STOP

[thick charm]

So you're telling me you prefer tea over the head of Brad Pitt's wife?

Yeah I gotta agree

[ocean robin]

🤔

dac wher ar yu

I am sure the thing I said was wrong

[thick charm]

One day you'll get the reference and then you'll be like "Chuck you motherfucker thanks for spoiling the plot you dick"

[minor heart]

dac r trying

his brain r 💯

[pine ginkgo]

well

what cases are possible

[minor heart]

Leckeres Kaffee?

[pine ginkgo]

what gender is kaffee

[minor heart]

Der

[pine ginkgo]

try again

[mild cosmos]

"Lecker Kaffee ist in meiner Tasse"?

[pine ginkgo]

same mistake

no

wait

yes

actually, not quite the same, but close

[ocean robin]

"coffee mug"

@minor heart

[minor heart]

Lecken?

[pine ginkgo]

no

lecker is the stem

[twilit garden]

you used the right gender but not the right set of endings

[ocean robin]

I said leckerer and it wasn't true

🤔

[pine ginkgo]

because it isnt

[ocean robin]

damn

wait

[twilit garden]

what, Solet?

[ocean robin]

it's not nominative

[pine ginkgo]

yes

[twilit garden]

it is

[ocean robin]

what is in the coffee mug

[pine ginkgo]

no

[placid heath]

Leckerer Kaffee klingt richtig

[twilit garden]

ja

[ocean robin]

:0

[pine ginkgo]

that'S the wrong sentence

[twilit garden]

Solet, what are you doing?

[ocean robin]

but in the sentence

[pine ginkgo]

you all came late

and are talking about the wrong sentence

[thick charm]

Now I'm confused

[pine ginkgo]

nemo, you are talking about clock's sentence

[ocean robin]

"There is tasty coffee in my coffee mug."

[pine ginkgo]

we are talking about dac's sentence

[twilit garden]

"There is tasty coffee in my coffee mug"

[pine ginkgo]

yes

[ocean robin]

mmh accusative then

[pine ginkgo]

not nominative

[ocean robin]

wait

location

🤔

[mild cosmos]

Es gibt leckeren Kaffee in meiner Kaffeetasse

[pine ginkgo]

yep

[ocean robin]

so it was accusative

[minor heart]

grumble grumble

[thick charm]

That's not how I'd say that

[minor heart]

Lets do another like that

[thick charm]

But yeah I get where you're coming from

[placid heath]

Naja, wenn man "There is" mit "Es ist" übersetzt, klappt das aber mit leckerer Kaffee :P

[minor heart]

so I can get better

[pine ginkgo]

wenn man das tut :)

[placid heath]

Ist das englische "There is" nicht eher ein "Es ist"? So als Aussage zu einem Fakt?

[mild cosmos]

Es ist seems more like "it is" than "there is" to me

but I'm not exactly a pro at this

[minor heart]

I like saying es gibt more

[twilit garden]

Es gibt leckeren Kaffee in meiner Kaffeetasse.
Da ist leckerer Kaffee in meiner Kaffeetasse.
Leckerer Kaffee ist in meiner Kaffeetasse.

Out of those three i would go with number 2

[thick charm]

yup

[placid heath]

^

[pine ginkgo]

yep

[mild cosmos]

nummer zwei klingt am besten

[pine ginkgo]

colloquially, at least here around

[twilit garden]

"Es gibt" states existance in a more general sense

[pine ginkgo]

you hear people dropping the ending for lecker a lot though

[thick charm]

"The stadium was filled to the brim with excited fans, who were waiting for the match to begin."

[minor heart]

I feel like 2 feels better to say this sounds weird

[pine ginkgo]

and you may hear stuff like "Ich hab lecker Kaffee!"

[thick charm]

Idk that one feels too complicated again

maybe

[twilit garden]

Or even "Lecker Mädsche"

[thick charm]

LEGGA MÄDSCHE

[ocean robin]

🤔

[mild cosmos]

Das Stadion war gerammelt voll mit begeisterten Fanen, die für der Anfang das Spiel erwartet. (stab in the dark here)

[placid heath]

Fans, die den Anfang des Spiels erwarteten

[ocean robin]

whoa what was that sentence

[mild cosmos]

ok, so as usual I managed to get the cases 100% wrong

[thick charm]

It's not that bad

You got begeisterten right which is pretty good

But the plural of Fan is Fans, it's just an anglicism.

[pine ginkgo]

fanen ist witzig, though

:D

[mild cosmos]

I'm glad. Fanen klingt sehr komisch

[placid heath]

Fans haben wir aus dem englischen geklaut, der Fan, die Fans

[thick charm]

There is Fahne, which can mean flag or smell of booze

Which is fittingly what fans usually carry around with them

both, even.

[placid heath]

^

[mild cosmos]

ok so let me break it down a little. "the beginning (den Anfang)" is akkusativ, that makes sense. Genitiv makes things easier in this sentence than I was expecting: "of the game (des Spiels). Erwarten because "die Fans" Plural ist

habe ich recht?

[thick charm]

Yup

[mild cosmos]

seems like half the time, I make things harder on myself than necessary

[minor heart]

I can barely think in german

its more of

"i assume this is richtig"

"was?"

I'll switch words around

[bitter rune]

Here's one from my real life:

The warm water in my shower doesn't work

[minor heart]

and end up saying them

evenually

[ocean robin]

oh rip :/

[pallid kelp]

oh is this the daily Train your Fläppy moment?

or is the spotlight on somebody else?

[minor heart]

Das warme Wasser in meiner Dusche....nicht?

[bitter rune]

doesn't work is always tricky for people 😄

[ocean robin]

"Das warme Wasser in meiner Dusche funktioniert nicht."

[bitter rune]

sehr gut !

ah

[ocean robin]

wait no

[bitter rune]

meiner dusche

[ocean robin]

oh

wait what's the case in this

[minor heart]

akkusitiv?

[ocean robin]

Dative? 🤔

Because die Dusche

If it's not then dict.cc lies

[pallid kelp]

yeah it's dativ

[ocean robin]

So location?

[pallid kelp]

die -> 💥 DATIV 💥 -> der

[ocean robin]

WOW

[pallid kelp]

BOOM

[minor heart]

bum

[pallid kelp]

(unless it's plural, in which case it's den)

[ocean robin]

yes

[mild cosmos]

How is my word order here: Vor ihren Eltern benehmen sie sich gut.

Es klingt richtig aber mir ist nicht sicher

[pine ginkgo]

ist in ordnung

[mild cosmos]

ok danke

these reflexive verbs are complicated

but I think I'm getting the hang of it.

how about this sentence: Wir würden uns gern dich danken für das Geschenk sagen.

klingt irgenwie komisch

[pine ginkgo]

nope

[bitter rune]

Wir würden uns gern bei dir bedanken für das Geschenk

[pine ginkgo]

oder ohne reflexiv wir würden dir gerne danken

[bitter rune]

Wir würden dir gern für das Geschenk danken
Wir würden dir gern danken für das Geschenk.

Welches ist eigentlich besser. Oder ist das Mundart

[mild cosmos]

ok I knew that combination of danken and sagen wasn't right

[pine ginkgo]

ersteres

[thick charm]

Geht beides, Ersteres ist hochdeutsch(er).

[mild cosmos]

bedanken. das ist sehr nützlich!

[bitter rune]

@ember bramble du kannst aber "danke sagen" benutzen

"wir würden dir gern Danke sagen"

[pine ginkgo]

zweiteres würdest du jetzt aber nicht in einem text schreiben

[bitter rune]

ist absolut cromulent

[pine ginkgo]

mhhh

mhhhhhhhh

mhhh

je nach dem 🤔

[mild cosmos]

ok now my understanding is crumbling

a question usually begins with the finite verb in the first position

Interessiert dich für Sport? seems incomplete

[bitter rune]

da fehlt das Subjekt

[mild cosmos]

genau

[pine ginkgo]

you are missing the subj

asfagah

[bitter rune]

try again

[mild cosmos]

I'm really not sure where to put the subject but it seems to usually come before the reflexive pronoun like so: Interessiert du dich für Sport?

[bitter rune]

ja!

fast perfekt

Interessierst du dich für Sport

[mild cosmos]

ascho

danke!

[bitter rune]

Lustigerweise ist der Satz "Interessiert dich Sport?" aber in Ordnung

ich weiß aber nicht genau warum

Ich kann die ganzen grammatikalischen Erklärungen nicht. Dafür müssen Leute wie @pine ginkgo oder @thick charm ran

[thick charm]

Ich rate auch meistens nur. 💪 🙃

[pine ginkgo]

mhh

du kannst auch "Interessiert Sport dich?" sagen

wieder mal die flexible worststellung und so ne nkack

[mild cosmos]

Genau grammatikalischen Erklärungen sind nicht wie wichtig für viele Muttersprachlerer als Sprachenlernender. For instance, I've learned more English grammar through studying German than I ever learned in school. 😛

[pine ginkgo]

you should try to learn latin then

:P

[mild cosmos]

hahaha I get enough of that from my girlfriend; she doesn't exactly "speak" latin, but she knows quite a bit because of medical school

[pine ginkgo]

i basically learned everything i know about german grammar

by learning latin

(well, not everything, but getting a deeper unstanding)

[mild cosmos]

That's certainly an intriguing possibility. Maybe next year I'll try my hand at it. For now, I'm focusing on the B1 exam, but I absolutely don't want my German ability to crystallize at the B1 level

[pine ginkgo]

well

you shouldn't really

since you gotta learn german grammar by learning german

but as a native, you don't really "get" to properly know how german grammar works

and learning latin helped me a lot there

[mild cosmos]

I hope to speak German as well as I can speak English, but the road to reach that goal is a long one.

[proven eagle]

dudu

[ocean robin]

YES

[cold palm]

Yeah

[ocean robin]

GODDAMIT PARIS WHY

[cold palm]

?

[ocean robin]

You were good

[proven eagle]

France is getting weirder while Germany is getting...

[ocean robin]

good.

[cold palm]

Good

[ocean robin]

Getting good.

[lunar urchin]

[proven eagle]

better*

[ocean robin]

Yeeeeah

[cold palm]

Yeah better

[proven eagle]

they even have angela merkel emoji!

[ocean robin]

Yep!

[lunar urchin]

as well

[pine ginkgo]

too

[ocean robin]

LOL

[lunar urchin]

, too

[thick charm]

is the only emote we need

[ocean robin]

LOL

[pine ginkgo]

also this

[ocean robin]

YES

[lunar urchin]

[thick charm]

also

(let me dream)

[cold palm]

Oh hi Chuck

[proven eagle]

I propose a Charlie Hebdo emoji.

[ocean robin]

yes let me dream too

[thick charm]

Hey Math!

[proven eagle]

🤔

[ocean robin]

And wavecat too

[thick charm]

Man if they ever decide to add wavechuck, that's gonna be a national holiday

[cold palm]

Lol

[cold palm]

National holiday lol

[ocean robin]

let me dream

[proven eagle]

Floppy

[ocean robin]

yes

[proven eagle]

nothing

im just bored

[ocean robin]

🤔

[cold palm]

Me either

[thick charm]

Did you draw that?

[ocean robin]

Yep!

[cold palm]

I was studying for exam

But boring

[thick charm]

Well done!

[ocean robin]

Thank yoou! .3.

[proven eagle]

@cold palm i also have exam tomorrow

[cold palm]

Tomorrow?

[proven eagle]

yes

[cold palm]

My exam starts at 25th to 28th

[proven eagle]

awwwww

tomorrow me MATH EXAM

[cold palm]

I have to study chemistry biology too

[ocean robin]

I don't have exams yet

OH MATH :HEART:

[cold palm]

Math oh....

Our school is notorious for math test difficulty

[ocean robin]

why don't y'all love math?

[cold palm]

EXTREMELY DIFFICULT

[proven eagle]

i love math

[cold palm]

I love it

But too difficult

[ocean robin]

yay!

[cold palm]

I am very bad at math

[proven eagle]

math... you gotta use your brain...

problem solving is fun.

[cold palm]

Haha there's no one who is worse at math than me

[thick charm]

🤔

I'm sure I'm worse

[cold palm]

I was doing math homework too

?

[ocean robin]

#general-2 is math and senteces game.

[cold palm]

You must be better than me

[fair iron]

I can't guarantee that these will or can stay, so enjoy them while they last.

[ocean robin]

Sentences. 👀

[cold palm]

You are university student

[fair iron]

[ocean robin]

OH GOD

[proven eagle]

I'm grade 7 by the waie.

[ocean robin]

CATTO COME THERE

[thick charm]

oh man you destroyed the meme

[cold palm]

[thick charm]

The curse has been broken

[proven eagle]

oml

somebody just added the emoji

[cold palm]

@proven eagle Grade 7? How old are you?

[proven eagle]

12

[ocean robin]

HOLY SHIT

[cold palm]

Really?

[proven eagle]

ya

[cold palm]

I am 15

[fair iron]

@crystal delta Flappy calls for you. ^^

[crystal delta]

😮

[cold palm]

And I'll be 16 in October

[ocean robin]

[proven eagle]

👏

[fair iron]

^^

[cold palm]

[ocean robin]

OMG I AM SO HAPPY

[cold palm]

I like it

[proven eagle]

[crystal delta]

Ohhh someone added new emoji? 😉

[cold palm]

Congratulations @ocean robin

[ocean robin]

;3;

[fair iron]

I blame Mic, 🐱.

Always adding emoji.

[crystal delta]

^.^

[ocean robin]

LOL

now wavecat exists

[cold palm]

Yeah!

[ocean robin]

The dream is fulfilled

[cold palm]

[minor heart]

@ocean robin

miau

[cold palm]

I like it

[ocean robin]

heheh

Now Dac, describe this cat in German.

[fair iron]

Katzenartig.

[thick charm]

Flauschig

[cold palm]

??

[ocean robin]

Don't worry Math, don't worry

[fair iron]

(Katzenartig means cat-like.)

[ocean robin]

I am to confused

Oh.

[cold palm]

Oh I see

And then Flauschig?

[ocean robin]

*too

[minor heart]

Ich bin eine süße Katze?

[ocean robin]

Damn phone.

[crystal delta]

FALSCH

[minor heart]

for the cat

[ocean robin]

Du bist?

[thick charm]

flauschig = fluffy

[minor heart]

9

[crystal delta]

DAS BIN ICH 😠

😾

[cold palm]

Okay okay

[ocean robin]

WHOA CATTO

[crystal delta]

😛

[cold palm]

Schön Katzen

[pine ginkgo]

help

i found this emote

[cold palm]

[fair iron]

Thank Wormic.

[ocean robin]

YEEEAH IKR

[pine ginkgo]

kill it with fire

[ocean robin]

When I saw that omg

[cold palm]

The emoji is so funny

[pine ginkgo]

[ocean robin]

I laughed for a good of couples of minutes

[cold palm]

Lol me too

[thick charm]

top 5 emotes in no particular order

[ocean robin]

Good couples of minutes. 🤔

And D:

My waveflapps

[cold palm]

[pine ginkgo]

[fair iron]

My favourite emoji are the following:

❤ 🐱

[ocean robin]

YEAH.

PERFECT.

[cold palm]

I like Merkel

[minor heart]

I imagen whenever Flappy does caps

there should be loud french accent

[ocean robin]

YES.

[sudden panther]

H O H E E N E R G I E

[viscid cape]

^ I think there might be a subliminar message in favour of a candidate there

[cold palm]

For me French looks cool

[fair iron]

^

[ocean robin]

And cute accent, as a lot think.

[cold palm]

Haha some foreigners think that Korean accent is cute too

[fair iron]

You both sound adorable, I'm sure of it.

[thick charm]

Accents in general are pretty amazing

[ocean robin]

Well, when I do a recording or when I am about to talk...

hell yeah excitement everywhere

[thick charm]

I know, I used to be pretty self-conscious about my accent as well. It's way easier to just live with it. You're stuck with it, so you might as well make the best of it.

[ocean robin]

And thank you Casca. ❤

[cold palm]

Thank you Casca❤ ❤

[thick charm]

Womanizer | Casca

[pine ginkgo]

fuck your accent chuck

[thick charm]

Fuck your hair Luna

[fair iron]

Your accent is cute too, Chuck. What do you say now?

[ocean robin]

Womanizer

[pine ginkgo]

i gonna stand on your shoulder, you big club

[thick charm]

I say thank you and appreciate the compliment

[pine ginkgo]

pouring beer on your head while drinking

[ocean robin]

wtf

[thick charm]

sounds like a good time

[pine ginkgo]

yep

[ocean robin]

Beer river?

Is this a good idea?

[cold palm]

Hmm?

[thick charm]

Yes

[cold palm]

Maybe

[ocean robin]

I don't want y'all sick after that

[fair iron]

Can't go wrong with beer in the title.

[thick charm]

Exactly

[ocean robin]

Because overdose of beer

🤔

[pine ginkgo]

overdose? 🤔

[thick charm]

It can't be a bad activity if it includes drinking beer

[fair iron]

Doesn't exist in Germany.

[cold palm]

I haven't drink beer so I have no idea

[thick charm]

The only dose we have is Bierdose

[pine ginkgo]

but why would you drink bier out of a dose

🤔

[thick charm]

Because Flaschen are expensive

[ocean robin]

I didn't too, Math.

[cold palm]

Of course you are younger than me

[ocean robin]

And hopefully because if I did it would be creepy.

[cold palm]

Creepy?

[ocean robin]

Drinking beer at 14 🤔

[pine ginkgo]

is not really creepy

[thick charm]

🤔

[ocean robin]

ok i have drunk champagne but champagne is like

OMG 111

[thick charm]

Schnapszahl

[ocean robin]

SORRY ADDICTION FOR 11 COMES BACK

[thick charm]

How can you be addicted to a number?

[ocean robin]

🤔

[cold palm]

Well I am mathematician

[fair iron]

Your favourite number is 11, and my favourite number is 15.

Your next birthday covers both those things, Flappy. ^^

[thick charm]

My favourite numbers are 7 and 10

Both of which I had on my jersey as an up and coming soccer superstar

[ocean robin]

Yeah, Casca. ^^

[sudden panther]

Flopps. Wanna translate German -> English?

[ocean robin]

YES.

[sudden panther]

Rausperte hochstens an grundlich liebhaben la furchtete lieblinge so in, gelernt schones gedeckt auffiel ja wo gemacht eleganz es.
GO.

[ocean robin]

wtf is that

[pine ginkgo]

ban arrem

[ocean robin]

Can he ban himself?

[sudden panther]

http://randomtextgenerator.com/ ❤

[ocean robin]

OMG

I like how I know 10 words in this.

Or even less.

Let's do spamming in dict.cc.

[pine ginkgo]

haha

good luck

[ocean robin]

Which level is that, Solet? 👀

[sudden panther]

Flops, open that site and generate yourself a text in French. 😛

[ocean robin]

:0

OK I LOVE THIS

DAT GRAMMAR 💯

Or pour cent peut hate du xv. Neige or je voici tu epars lunes. Sa tout on plus ou ni venu. Sur fer subitement consentiez par diplomates non imprudente etonnement. Hurlements mendiaient qu frissonner le va boulevards en. Bleuissent souhaitait oh au diplomates ca. Dresse ici fin tempes esprit beaute poteau eperon ils. Rien tres seul donc sur nez eux des. Solet translate dat.

god i love this

[pine ginkgo]

The sun was shining brilliantly and the birds were chirping loudly and charmingly, when the ban hammer struck with roaring thunder.

[ocean robin]

LOL

STARWORTHY THAT

[pine ginkgo]

now

go translate flaps

[ocean robin]

holy shit I am scared

[pine ginkgo]

take your time

[ocean robin]

Rausperte top at greenny like la furchete favorite so in, learnt beautiful covered (?) yes who done elegant he.

🤔

[pine ginkgo]

don't translate that

you can't translate that

[ocean robin]

LOL

that was funny tho

Die Sonne hat brilliant geschinen, und die Vögel hätte charment und laut gezwitschert, wenn der Banhammer mit tosenden Donner traf an."

🤔

god not sure at all

Solet enlighten mee

[pine ginkgo]

first of all

do you see any typos

[ocean robin]

oh god

uuuuh

🤔

*hatte

why that umlaut always typo dat

and this is the first and the last

[viscid cape]

Zwitschern, das habe ich nie zuvor gehört

[minor heart]

oh geez

[viscid cape]

Es ist onomatopoetisch oder?

[ocean robin]

to chirp

[minor heart]

flappy should get b level for that

[ocean robin]

OMG

[minor heart]

xd

[pine ginkgo]

no b level for wrong things

[minor heart]

oh

[ocean robin]

LOL

[minor heart]

oopsie

[ocean robin]

sed tho

[viscid cape]

Voldemort don't be mean to @ocean robin

[whole rapids]

feelsbad.jpg

[viscid cape]

I say Valdemort for you don't like to be mentioned

[minor heart]

[ocean robin]

[viscid cape]

😏

[pine ginkgo]

well

let's get the typos out of the way

look at geschinen and charment

[ocean robin]

hoyl there's typos left

[viscid cape]

'Charment' should be offensive to you

😂

[ocean robin]

I love how I did not write charmant like french way

[pine ginkgo]

yep

i wondered about that ehehe

[ocean robin]

LOL

and for geschienen

[fair iron]

Keep up the great work, Flappy. 😃

[ocean robin]

Gotta use Google then

[pine ginkgo]

okay now to some words

[viscid cape]

@fair iron Don't break the terrifying mood :v

[pine ginkgo]

how did you choose "brilliant"

[ocean robin]

dict.cc

[pine ginkgo]

yes

read the part for brilliant

[ocean robin]

I just wrote "brilliantly"

mmmh wait

[pine ginkgo]

oh lol

mhh

hahaha

i see

[ocean robin]

I wasn't brillant

But brillantly

*it

[fair iron]

Impressive that you missed the i out twice. ^^

[pine ginkgo]

o:D

[ocean robin]

[pine ginkgo]

oh, well, let's skip that for now

[ocean robin]

for now

[pine ginkgo]

for now

[ocean robin]

yes

[pine ginkgo]

okay

what's wrong with hätte

[ocean robin]

I have no idea

[pine ginkgo]

okay

why did you write hätte

[ocean robin]

Hatte and hätte are confusing me idk whai

[pine ginkgo]

well

what if i told you

both are wrong

[fair iron]

^

[ocean robin]

GOD.

WHY.

[pine ginkgo]

now tell my why

you wanted to write hatte/hätte anyway

[ocean robin]

WHAT WAS THE SENTENCE.

[cold palm]

Hatte hätte?

[ocean robin]

wait that I go back again

DON'T TELL ME IT WAS JUST HABEN.

[pine ginkgo]

well, yes

[fair iron]

^^

[pine ginkgo]

i wanted to know

[ocean robin]

OW.

[pine ginkgo]

how you came to write hätte though

:(

[fair iron]

Why would haben have been correct, Flappy?

[cold vessel]

Ohhh, are we doing the translation game again?

[pine ginkgo]

yep

[ocean robin]

because they were chirping. So haben. But whai not another tense?

Which I have forgot the German name.

Let's say plus que parfait.

which is haben in past tense + past participle.