questions-2

[fervent hollow]

Still think it's weird but what do I know?

[swift bough]

It’s a mood that doesn’t exist in English, that’s for sure

But that’s literally what it’s for

It’s to distance yourself from other‘s statements

[fervent kernel]

pain

[fervent hollow]

Pain

[night dagger]

es ist fast ähnlich wie "die" statt "sie"

also die Verwendung von einem Artikel statt einem Personalpronomen

alles ist ein bisschen distanzierter damit oder sowas

[solid hull]

I'd delete this if I were you

[fervent hollow]

Why?

[swift bough]

Wat

I was referring to Konjunktiv I btw

Not II

[solid hull]

you said the mood doesn't exist in English

oh u mean the actual usage of it

[swift bough]

Bruh English doesn’t have Konj I

[solid hull]

it does, but it's not used the same way

[swift bough]

Well at the very least it’s not very obvious compared to German

[solid hull]

only with to be, with other verbs it's only obvious in the third person singular

I recommend he come/be here early

[tropic cedar]

Gibt es einzelnes Wort für English wort music listening oder kein Wort?

[night dagger]

das Instrumental (wie auf Englisch) geht

[tropic cedar]

Während "music listening"

Während des Hörens, passt richtig?

[swift bough]

Musikhören

@tropic cedar

[frail wraith]

Translation for breast and chest in german respectively please

[long whale]

Happens to be the same. :)

https://de.pons.com/übersetzung/deutsch-englisch/Brust

@frail wraith

[nimble viper]

Question for advanced or native speakers:

A few weeks ago I was looking a bit more into present participle in German, that is, the transformation of the infinitive, such as machen > machend or lernen > lernend. I found this discovery very interesting, however, I do not yet feel capable to employ it in any way in my written or spoken German.

"Durch die Praxis lernend...." , "noch versuchend und versuchend" , "Fortpflanzungshandlungsweisen leicht zu beobachten, ausführlich berichtete Beobachtungen machend mehr ausführbar...." , & "wegen aller Merkmale im Spiel, die es extrem süchtig machend bilden."```
Reading such sentences, I can understand most of their meanings *(obviously not Fortpflanzungshandlungsweisen at first glance lol)*, yet as stated, I do not feel comfortable utilising these participles in my German. My questions in regards to this are: Should I use these present participles at all in spoken German? -&-  If I would use these, even if only in writing, how might I go about such in a gramatically-accurate manner?

[long whale]

No, Partizip 1 isn't used at all in spoken German. It's sometimes used in literature, e.g. "Lachend betrat der Mann das Zimmer" = Der Mann lachte, als er das Zimmer betrat (Laughing, the man entered the room/The man was laughing as/when he entered the room). It's also used in places where you wouldn't want a wordy relative clause, for example on signs like "Achtung! Spielende Kinder" (kids at play). All in all, I'd say if you understand the form (adding -d to the infinitive of the verb) and the meaning (person/thing involved in an activity), it's not something you'd need to use yourself anytime soon. :)

BTW, if you turn a Partizip 1 into a noun, e.g. schreiben -> schreibend -> der/die Schreibende, it would translate to "the writing one", and it would be declined according to the rules of the N-Deklination.

[plain umbra]

It's basically just used like a typical adjective/adverb in terms of the grammar.

[long whale]

As a side note, if you see "spielend" used as an adverb, it doesn't really mean "playing/ly", it's more like "easily": Die Prüfung schaffst du spielend = The exam will be a piece of cake for you.

[thorny urchin]

You'd be able to use it if you are telling something that happened right?
"Und dann betrat er lachend das Zimmer"
Not saying it is a common thing but just wanted to know if it would see use like this

[long whale]

Yup, that's correct. :)

[nimble viper]

Thank you guys for such clear and comprehensive answers! Also Susana I must look into the rules of the N-Deklination.

[long whale]

There's a faq for it, actually. ;)

Also, come to think of it, another instance of Partizip 1 just occurred to me (and you will hear that): "schreiend [vor etwas/jemandem] davonlaufen" (to run away screaming = to be utterly horrified by so/sth) ;)

[thorny urchin]

Would that be like a saying/expression?

[long whale]

I'd say so, yes. :)

[celest pollen]

Where "gib" came from

Because "geben means to give "

And I don't see in the table of varieties such a thing at any time

It's an abbreviation or something

[scenic drift]

"gib" is the imperative form of "geben".
"Gib mir das" -> "Give me that!"

[tropic thistle]

geben belongs to the class of 'stem-changing' verbs, which have (as the name implies) changes to their vowel in the 2nd and 3rd persons singular. Since the imperative is also built from the same stem as the 2nd person singular*, that's why you see the change here.

geben > gibst, gibt, gib!
nehmen > nimmst, nimmt, nimm!
lesen > liest, liest, lies!

*What would a rule be without an exception? (A generalization, but I digress.) Here, it is the fact that there are stem-changing verbs where the change is the addition of an umlaut: in these cases, the imperative form does not use the umlauted stem.

stoßen > stößt, stößt, BUT stoße!
raten > rätst, rät, BUT rate!

[ancient pulsar]

this was a bit late but thank you

[fervent kernel]

How does we say in German ""On the island is a nice vibe"?

Auf der Insel ist eine gute Stimmung

Or herrscht eine gute Stimmung

[wintry geode]

Auf der Insel

[fervent kernel]

right die Insel

Tyy

[upper ember]

Wird das Verb dünken noch im Alltag verwendet?

[unborn wadi]

Ich musste es grad googeln also nein, habs noch nie gehört 😂

[nova copper]

Eher weniger, heute bildet sich jeder alles ein

[mellow nova]

it is classified as obsolete by dictionaries @upper ember

[upper ember]

Also.. Die Antwort ist N31N :p

[upper ember]

Danke schön, hast du etwa die Kollokation bass erstaunt gehört?

[unborn wadi]

Nein 😂 Woher hast du diese ganzen Wörter?

Also erstaunt ja, "bass erstaunt" noch nie

[wise pendant]

Ja, aber nur relativ selten im Norden

Das Wort war im Hochdeutschen noch nie viel benutzt, weil es soweit ich weiß eigentlich ein niederdeutsches Lehnwort ist und in alten niederdeutschen Gebieten z.T. in die hochdeutsche Umgangssprache übergegangen ist.

[noble yacht]

Kann für den Süden das gleiche sagen ✌️

[upper ember]

Danke für die Antworten :)

Also im Satz "sie dünkt sich zu fein für diese Arbeit" würde man eher "sie bildet sich... ein" sagen?

[fair zenith]

ja

[long whale]

Careful: you'll need a different construction. :)

[upper ember]

Ist "sich einbilden" etwa ein beliebtes Wort?

[whole portal]

Was heißt beliebt?

[long whale]

Why "etwa" (indicates surprise)? 🤔

[upper ember]

Etwa zu benutzen bedeutet dass ich dafür neugierig bin, die Antwort zu kriegen

[whole portal]

Ich verstehe aber nicht wirklich, wie die Frage gemeint ist.

Einbilden ist ein Wort mit einer Bedeutung, es wird verwendet, wenn man diese Bedeutung ausdrücken möchte. Inwiefern kann ein Verb beliebt sein?

[long whale]

Trust me, it indicates surprise. Which is rather surprising in the context. :)

[whole portal]

Das richtige Wort hier wäre übrigens finden.

[long whale]

*übrigens ;)

[whole portal]

Tippfehler 🙄

[long whale]

I know that. :)

[upper ember]

Ik versta het niet :(

Könnt ihr mir mal einige andere Beispielssätze abgeben, in denen man etwa richtig benutzt?

Ich wäre euch sehr dankbar

[long whale]

See II 1. here: https://www.dwds.de/wb/etwa#d-1-2 :)

[upper ember]

Was soll das denn heißen? :))

[whole portal]

"sie findet sich zu fein für diese Arbeit"

or hält

[upper ember]

Ein Verb kann beliebt sein, indem man dieses Wort gerne benutzt :))

[whole portal]

Beliebt sind Dinge aber in erster Linie bei einer Gruppe an Personen

Und das ist denke ich bei den wenigsten Wörtern der Fall.

[fervent kernel]

@upper emberWas brauchen sie denn, der herr?

[proven sphinx]

You sound like a medieval knight who just time-traveled to the present day. 😂

Seriously though, it's weird using formal pronouns here on this server.

[fervent kernel]

Yeah i see them rarely being used in daily life as well. It's common that people say "ihr könnts mich dutzen" after they introduce themselves

[proven sphinx]

I think "der Herr" sounds pretty outdated. I don't think people say it these days anymore.

[fervent kernel]

oh that one. Well i usually use it more as a joke on this server. I think i heard that when watching some german movie, i can't recall which one it was though 🙂

[proven sphinx]

Probably some movie from the 50s or earlier.

[fervent kernel]

Pretty sure i heard "Was darf es sein, der Herr." A couple of times

[echo sleet]

Nowadays, I think "Was brauchen sie denn" is enough

[upper ember]

Er spottet meiner wohl :P

[proven sphinx]

That's just gibberish, I'm afraid...

[fervent kernel]

Ich hatte keinesfalls das Bedürfnis sie zum Narren zu machen, werter Herr.

[echo sleet]

This sounds like very old german

When written, totally fine, but no one talks like that anymore

[fervent kernel]

Ich will lediglich wie ein gebildeter Deutscher klingen.

[echo sleet]

Das klingt eher so als würden Sie mit einem König reden.

[fervent kernel]

Oh damn not even Teachers or Politicians?

[proven sphinx]

Now you truly sound like a medieval knight who traveled through time. 😂

[echo sleet]

nope

How well is your understanding of german?

[fervent kernel]

i would say it's great

[echo sleet]

Then I'd try to watch some native content

[fervent kernel]

sadly there are still a few vocabularies left that i need to learn

[proven sphinx]

People at C level often try too hard to sound sophisticated. You don't have to sound like a medieval knight from German Minnesang to be fluent.

[upper ember]

Comment dirait-on il se moque de moi alors?

[echo sleet]

je suis anglais

[proven sphinx]

Er macht sich über mich lustig.
Er verspottet mich.

[echo sleet]

wieso?

[upper ember]

Spotten n'existe pas alors?

[echo sleet]

la velo

[proven sphinx]

It does.

Er spottet über ihn.

That would also work.

Er spottet über mich.

But "sich über jemanden lustig machen" is the more common variant, whereas "spotten" is more formal.

[fervent kernel]

@echo sleetUnaussprechlich durch Worte wäre meines Herzens Seligkeit, wenn ich endlich mal ein Buch lesen könnte ohne Vokabel nachschlagen zu müssen :/

[echo sleet]

ersetze alles vor dem Komma mit "ich wäre glücklich"
Das klingt deutlich natürlicher

[proven sphinx]

Goethe, lebst du denn noch? 😂

[echo sleet]

xd

[echo sleet]

Hatte letztens n freund der meinte "du schreibst wie van gogh"

[proven sphinx]

Was auch immer das heißen soll. Vincent van Gogh war ja ein niederländischer Maler. Er war nicht einmal Schriftsteller. 😂

[fervent kernel]

Vielleicht war das der Witz 🙂

[echo sleet]

Das war das Problem
Mein Freund wollte jemandem mit dem Satz für seine 5 Seitige deutsch Arbeit komplimentieren

[fervent kernel]

xD

[upper ember]

Fällt es den Deutschen von heute schwer, Goethe zu verstehen?

[proven sphinx]

Fällt es uns leicht? Na ja, mehr oder weniger. Manchmal muss man schon etwas genauer lesen.

Es hilft ja auch nicht, dass er oft so lange Sätze schreibt.

[upper ember]

Benutzt er Wörter, deren Bedeutung sich verändert haben?

[proven sphinx]

Prosa ist natürlich einfacher zu verstehen als ein Gedicht.

[upper ember]

Ich lese gerade ein Werk von ihm...

[proven sphinx]

Ja, natürlich.

Und er benutzt auch viele Wörter, die selbst zu seiner Zeit nicht gerade Alltagswörter waren.

[echo sleet]

ist es nicht anders herum
er benutzt Wörter die Alltag waren, es aber nicht mehr sind?

[proven sphinx]

Das natürlich auch, aber ich meine es eher so, dass er ja ein hochgebildeter Schriftsteller war, also kannte er viele Wörter, die der Durchschnittsdeutsche zu derer Zeit wohl nicht kannte.

[echo sleet]

ja gut stimmt

[proven sphinx]

"zu derer Zeit" scheint selbst nicht so oft gebraucht zu werden. Man sagt öfter einfach "zu der Zeit" oder "zur damaligen Zeit". 😅

[echo sleet]

hab fast nie Goethe gelesen

[upper ember]

Hast du ihn nicht in der Schulezeit lesen müssen?

[nova copper]

*Schulzeit 😉

[echo sleet]

Klar schon, nur nicht oft

habe glaube ich bisher irgendwie 3-4 Gedichte von ihm oder so gelesen

und das ist schon länger her

[upper ember]

Deutsch hat eine große Diglossia. Es hilft, dass in den Wörterbüchern die Wörter mit "gehoben" markiert sind.

[proven sphinx]

Die ganzen Dialekte machen das alles auch nicht einfacher.

[upper ember]

Meistens ist die Literatur der Jugend manchmal egal. ):

[proven sphinx]

Nirgendwo sonst ist die Diglossie aber so stark ausgeprägt wie in der Schweiz.

Da spricht man wirklich fast nur den Dialekt, aber man schreibt immer auf Hochdeutsch.

[upper ember]

Roger Federer bemüht sich, ein gutes Hochdeutsch zu sprechen. 😛

[proven sphinx]

Sein Schweizer Akzent ist aber trotzdem unverkennbar.

[upper ember]

Hochdeutsch ist die Schriftsprache. Die anderen Dialekte stellen eine mindere Komplexität dar. o_O

[proven sphinx]

Na ja, die Dialekte sind nicht immer weniger komplex.

Das Schweizerdeutsche z. B. hat zwar kein Präteritum und viele der Kasusendungen sind nicht eindeutig erkennbar, aber es benutzt auch die Konjunktiv-Formen viel öfter als das Standarddeutsche.

[echo sleet]

Selbst als deutscher lernt man was hier

[proven sphinx]

Er hät gsäit, er hegi öppis glernt. (Wörtlich: Er hat gesagt, er habe etwas gelernt).

Auf Hochdeutsch ist das gehoben mit dem K1, aber auf Schweizerdeutsch ist es ganz normal.

[echo sleet]

Ich kann Dialekt wie in der Schweiz oder in Bayern ganz schlecht verstehen

Österreich geht noch, kommt auf die "Stärke" des Dialekts an

[normal parcel]

Bitte .was ist die Unterschiede Zwischen DSH-2 Und B2-Zertifkat ?

[night dagger]

du solltest Wiki gucken

[fervent kernel]

einen oberösterreicher verstehst du sicher nicht

die benutzen auch ihre eigenen vokabel

[echo sleet]

wenn sie dialekt sprechen dann nicht/kaum

[whole portal]

Das ist dann ja kein Deutsch mehr.

[fervent kernel]

Deutsch hat viele Sprachvarietäten, aber ich stimme yoshi zu, dass nur Hochdeutsch gelehrt werden sollte.

[cobalt oriole]

Der Dialekt von einem Oberösterreicher ist gar nicht so schlimm. Schwerer zu verstehen sind die Dialekte aus Tirol oder der Steiermark.

[mental furnace]

Hallo leute. Ich werde 3 Satze schreiben. Wenn möglich, kontrolieren bitte Sie es. wenn ich etwas falsche mache,sagt mir bitte. Vielen dank 🙂
1- Ich berate dir,dass du nicht dort gehen sollst. 2- ich empfehle dir,dass du nicht dort gehen sollst, 3- ıch schlage dir vor,dass du nicht dort gehen sollst.

Die übersetzung sagt,dass gesamte Satze richtig sind. ich denke, dass etwas falsche ist.

[modern solstice]

1- Ich rate dir, dass du nicht dort hingehen solltest. 2- Ich empfehle dir, nicht dort hin zu gehen. 3- Ich schlage dir vor, dort nicht hinzugehen

[fervent kernel]

1. Ich rate dir, dass du nicht dort hingehst. 2.Ich empfehle dir, dass du nicht dort hingehst. 3. Ich schlage vor, dass du nicht dort hingehst

@long whale was meinst du

[mental furnace]

Vielen Dank beide für ihre Hilfe @modern solstice und @fervent kernel. Warum haben sie "hingehen" benutzt. Ich meine,dass "hingehen" gleich mit" to go somewhere" ist, oder?

[modern solstice]

*Vielen Dank für ihre hilfe/ für eure hilfe
ja, es heißt to go somewhere

[modern solstice]

konjunktion von 'hingehen' im Präsens:
ich gehe hin
du/er/sie geht hin
wir gehen hin
ihr geht hin
sie gehen hin

[echo sleet]

du gehst hin
er/sie/es geht hin*

[narrow pier]

Hi guys, i have read it in Deutsch-Coach.com to NOT put a comma after the MFG,
that this is a mistake, so which one is correct ( Mit freundlichen Grüßen ) OR ( Mit freundlichen Grüßen, )

[echo sleet]

First one is correct when you just say MFG
however the 2nd can be used when putting a name after, so
Mit freundlichen Grüßen, enter name

[narrow pier]

at the end of an email

[narrow pier]

so you should say MFG,

dein Ali

[echo sleet]

That's how I was tought

[narrow pier]

and no comma after the ali

[echo sleet]

no

[narrow pier]

thank youuuu

[long whale]

Yes, yours work fine. They'd also work with an infinitive construction, and they'd be both shorter and more elegant that way. :)

[long whale]

That's what I was taught, too. However, they've changed it. There's no comma before the signature, now. :)

[fervent kernel]

sowas wie 1. Ich rate dir, nicht dort hinzugehen?

ich hab extra dass benutzt, weil ich dachte der typ muss dass sätze draus machen

[echo sleet]

When did they change it

[celest pollen]

Stadt ist nicht veit von mir entfernt✅ ❌

[fervent kernel]

no comma before the signature?

[echo sleet]

seems like it

[long whale]

Yeah.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen (no comma)

[name]

[long whale]

No idea. I didn't find out about it too long ago. 🤷

[long whale]

Yes, exactly. - Maybe they had to, I don't know. :)

[upper ember]

Wie sagt man "j'ai failli tomber" ich wäre beinahe gefallen?

[unique dune]

hwhat

oh my god i’ve signed every single email i’ve ever sent incorrectly

[long whale]

Correct. :)

[swift bough]

how did you sign them

[unique dune]

mit komma

[long whale]

The horror! 😹

[unique dune]

[echo sleet]

same

[vast violet]

Wie sagt man "I see you around here a lot"?
Ich sehe dich viel hierherum?

[vale charm]

Ich seh dich hier ur oft

[fervent kernel]

Ich seh dich hier oft

ur ist austrian dialekt i think

[vale charm]

was willst du damit sagen

[vale charm]

yeah, but its the superior one

[vast violet]

Say, I see someone often whenever I visit a store or a park

or just other places in the vicinity

[vale charm]

I seh dich oft im Supermarkt/Park

[vast violet]

what about multiple places?

[vale charm]

Ich seh dich oft im Supermarkt UND/ODER Park

[long whale]

You could say something like "Wir laufen uns wirklich oft über den Weg" :)

[vale charm]

true

[vast violet]

ah

[vale charm]

its a figure of speach

so not to be used in other situations

(just letting you know)

[vast violet]

Okay. Danke für eure Hilfe

Okay noch eine Frage.
Was klingt natürlich?

Ich verbringe Zeit auf etw.
Ich verwende Zeit auf etw.
Ich widme etw.(Dat.) Zeit.

[vale charm]

das letzte

you never use "auf"

[rigid anvil]

Ich verbringe Zeit mit jemandem. (Einer Person) -> Ich verbringe viel Zeit mit Jack.

Ich verwende/nutze die freie Zeit, um mehr lernen zu können. (Using the time for something)

Ich widme mich der Kunst. (Sich der Zeit widmen kannst du nicht)

[vast violet]

auf dict.cc habe ich den zweiten Satz gefunden. Die ersten und dritten sind mir als passende Übersetzungen eingefallen

[rigid anvil]

Es kommt also ganz darauf an, was Du sagen willst.

[vale charm]

nope

das ist einfach nicht korrekt

hör nicht auf die Lügenpresse des freien Netzes!

auf==>für, dann passts

sonst aber nicht

[vast violet]

Also kann ich dann nur mit jdm. Zeit verbringen, oder?

[vale charm]

oder für etw

aber ja!

[rigid anvil]

Ich verbringe viel Zeit mit Jack. (Mit jemanden)
Ich verbringe viel Zeit am Klavier. (Mit etwas)

[vast violet]

Ah, also "Ich verwende Zeit für etw." ist okay?

[vale charm]

ja

aber nur wenn es ein nominalisiertes Verb ist

Deutsch ist deppat

[vast violet]

Ah, also zusammenhangsabhängig verändern sich die Präpositionen, oder?

[vale charm]

ja

langes wort mein lieber

[vast violet]

fürs Trainieren vllt.?

[vale charm]

genau!!!

du kannsts eh schon ur gut

[vast violet]

Danke sehr, freut mich, das zu hören

[vale charm]

perfekt mein lieber

[vast violet]

😄

[timid hinge]

Would this be correct for "you won't believe me" :
Du werdest mich nicht glauben

[stable pebble]

@timid hinge Du wirst mich nicht glauben

[cobalt oriole]

Du wirst mir nicht glauben

[stable pebble]

oh right it's dative

whoops

[timid hinge]

"mein Mutter hat mir schrien" Is that correct for "my mother yelled at me"?

[charred harbor]

Not really no ^^;

The gender you used for "Mutter" is incorrect and also the verb "schreien" just means to scream or shout in general
The verb for shouting at someone is "anschreien"

[balmy tusk]

how do i remember where to use der, die or das for the?

[charred harbor]

Brute memorisation

[lament temple]

im a german learner too, but if your learning a word learn the definitw article with it and note it, it saves you from having to look back

[lusty harness]

Hallo! I have a grammar question. I'm studying the relative superlative of adjectives and adverbs and the rule in my book says: AM before adj. or adv. + (E) STEN at the end of the adj. or adv. Then there is this example: "Er ist der jüngste unter seinen Freunden". My doubt is about the word "jüngste", why is it written like this and not "jüngsteN" like the rule says?😵‍💫

[radiant pilot]

because in the first case, it's in the dative case. However in the second sentence , the adjective "jüngste" is used in the nominative case after a definite article

[wet swan]

why we say "weil ich noch keinen menschen in audorf kenne." instead of "weil ich in audorf noch keinen menschen kenne"? tag me

[lusty harness]

So both sentences could be right or in this sentence the adjective should be either in the dative or nominative case?

[radiant pilot]

yes, exactly

or accusative

hope it's clear for you

[lusty harness]

Kind of eheh, adjective declinations are kinda hard for me to get but I'm trying. Thanks!😊

[radiant pilot]

anytime. for me too. Good luck !

[long whale]

"am... -sten" is usually used to refer to a verb: Tom läuft am schnellsten (Tom runs the fastest), Anne schreibt am schönsten (Anne writes most beautifully). If the superlative is in front of a noun, the ending must be in accordance with the case and gender of this noun. If your verb is "sein/ist", both are possible: Tom ist der größte OR Tom ist am größten. :)

[celest pollen]

Gleich fahre ich mit Radfahren❌✅

[long whale]

The verb is Rad fahren, and it works just like a separable verb. Try again? :)

[celest pollen]

Ok

I will try again

Gleich fahre ich mit Rad ?

[long whale]

Where did the "mit" come from?

[celest pollen]

Mmmmm i think beacuse mit / with - maybe damit?

[long whale]

No. If your sentence ends there, as in "I'm about to start cycling", it's "Gleich fahre ich Rad"

If you'd like to add something like "I'm about to go into town by bike", you'd say something like "Gleich fahre ich mit dem Rad in die Stadt." :)

[celest pollen]

Dem because Rad ist „Der” und Dativ ?

[long whale]

Ehh - it's "das Rad". And it's a rule: in English you just say "by bus", "by train", etc., in German, you always use the definite article: mit dem Bus, mit dem Zug. :)

@celest pollen

[celest pollen]

Danke ⚡️

In Die stadt, can be zu Stadt ?

"Gleich fahre ich mit dem Rad zu Stadt."

I ask such silly things because during an dialogue I won't quickly analyze what might fit here and I will, for example, save what I consider "appropriate" and somehow it will fit

[long whale]

Never.

You will simply have to think, analyze and practice until the proper preposition and case come naturally. That's why learning a language to fluency takes such a long time and is such a laborious process. 🤷@celest pollen

[celest pollen]

Ah why wasn't I born German intermingled with English

[dusty pendant]

quick question; when using a subordinate clause as an object with modal verbs, where do you put it?
i.e
"Ich muss sagen, dass ..."
or
"Ich muss, dass ..., sagen"?

[wintry apex]

1st one is correct

[dusty pendant]

oh thank god

ty for the quick response

another question:
can you put any object into the phrase "das ist mir egal"?

[wintry apex]

can you give me an example?

"das ist mir egal" ist auf jeden Fall richtig

[long whale]

Even an English example would help. I mean if it's "Tom doesn't care" -> Das ist Tom egal/Tom is das egal

Is that what you meant?

[dusty pendant]

I mean that "das"

can you say that you don't care about something specific or is it a fixed phrase?

[long whale]

Interesting question. Let's say you gave your friend a book with a banknote in it, the friend dropped the book down a drain and now kept apologizing about losing the book, you could say "Das Buch ist mir egal, [aber das Geld nicht]" (I don't mind/care about the book, but I do mind about the money.

[wintry apex]

you can say, es ist mir egal, ob du kommst oder nicht

es ist mir egal, welches Buch das ist

Es ist aber wichtig, dass ich das Geld bekomme

[dusty pendant]

I see, so you can just put any noun or pronoun [within reason] there

thanks!

[wintry apex]

but it does not really make sense without a context.

I do not hear that a lot in Germany

Mir ist egal/das ist mir egal/es ist mir egal is usually followed by a Nebensatz

[lusty harness]

That was a very helpful explanation, thank you!🤗

[proven sphinx]

It should be "mit Sturmhauben" and "mit Glatzen".

Though I guess both are possible in some cases? Hmm...

I guess if you use the singular, you're emphasizing that they all are one unit in a way.

Yeah, both are possible.

Google seems to confirm it.

In fact, "Männer mit Glatze" is much more common...

I did think it sounded weird.

[coral coral]

What's the best word to use for table? I came up with a method so i can start adapting to the language.

Tabelle seems confuse, because when i formed a phrase it used other words for table

[long whale]

Tabelle is a graph (google images will help). The word for the piece of furniture is "der Tisch". Use a good dictionary, it will give you context. :)

[coral coral]

So i should use "der" before the name when referring to a piece of furniture alone?

Or in any phrase

[long whale]

In most cases, use of the definite article is the same in German and in English. Since German nouns have 1 of 3 genders, it's best to learn every noun with its gender/definite article, though (and also with its plural). :)

[coral coral]

Thats where i regret being born in Brazil 😎

[long whale]

Why? Is the use of the definite article that different in Portuguese? I know it isn't in Spanish.

[coral coral]

I dont think so, but it does sound pretty different to my 15 year old head with a ton of "parental pressure" up my head

But dont worry bout it ima be just fine

i think

[long whale]

I'm sure you will. :) Do keep in mind what I said about using a good dictionary, will you? Whenever you're on a PC/laptop/notebook, Pons is best.

Linguee isn't bad either, wordreference is brilliant. dicct will just give you a ton of words without context. :)

[coral coral]

I do need to buy one, thanks for the tip!

Google translator only stabbed me in the back

[long whale]

Online is fine, you won't need a paper dictionary.

For online translators, deepl is miles better than google.

[coral coral]

Btw im going to write it down here to see if it can help other people as well

[long whale]

https://de.pons.com/übersetzung/portugiesisch-deutsch/mesa

[coral coral]

Im going to write on a piece of paper the names of the object in my house in german and then stick it to the object
(Use tape ofc)

Hoping it helps me start from somewhere

[long whale]

Good idea. Don't forget to add der/die/das.

If you're just starting, I can recommend languagetransfer.org (his accent's a bit shit, his method is good) and Nicos Weg at dw.com :)@coral coral

Both free, by the way.

[swift bough]

Fun fact, I have never seen Susana use the word shit before.

[coral coral]

Given the fact, just printed her message as some kind of rare thing 👌

Whats the most used word for oven?

If i had to guess i would say ofen

[night dagger]

jup. durchaus

[onyx rain]

Wenn man sagen wollte, "I feel bad", "I feel sad", kann man "sich fühlen" nutzen?
Z.B. Ich fühle mich traurig oder ich fühle mich schlecht und so weiter.

[upper ember]

Ja, klar.

Merke dir diese Konstruktionen auch:

mir ist kalt, mir wurde übel, usw

[onyx rain]

Wenn jemand mich fragt "Wie geht's dir?", kann ich auch antworten - "Ich fühle mich traurig oder andere Gefühlen" ?

[upper ember]

Warum nicht?

[onyx rain]

Weil ich nur diese Konstruktion sehen habe, "Mir geht's X/Y/Z"

[upper ember]

Das scheint, eine verwandte aber unterschiedliche Bedeutung zu haben. Sich fühlen impliziert eher einen geistlichen Zustand, während jemanden adj gehen den Verlauf von etwas impliziert. Vergleichen wir: to be doing bad, to be feeling bad 😛 Siehst du den Unterschied? :]]

[warped crag]

Can someone explain to me, what is good for use and what is different:
An was denkst du?
or
Woran denkst du?

[onyx rain]

Ach so, ja, danke.

[plush pelican]

What is the difference between "über etw. streiten", "sich über etw. streiten", "um etw. streiten", and "sich um etw. streiten"?

[rigid anvil]

It‘s both means the same and can be used in the same way.

[rigid anvil]

It basically means all the same. You can rearrange them all, in the way you did.

[plush pelican]

Danke

[warped crag]

danke für deine Antwort

[feral rivet]

Think there's a small difference between "(sich) über etw. streiten" and "(sich) um etw. streiten" - über is for topics, e.g. arguing if spring is better than summer. Um is for items, e.g. when little children fight over a toy

[long whale]

You could, but more idiomatically, you'd say "Ich bin traurig/glücklich/zufrieden" :)

[fervent kernel]

F

[arctic cosmos]

Was bedeutet :
1-ex-beliebige person
2-ex-beliebiges buch

[celest pollen]

Jemand könntest ein Bild, aus Buch schicken✅ ❌

[mellow nova]

Do you mean 'Someone could send a picture from a book" ?

[celest pollen]

ye

[mellow nova]

Jemand könnte/konnte (not sure if you mean hypothetical or past tense) ein Bild aus einem Buch schicken

Jemand (and all other indefinite/definite pronouns) either take 3rd person singular, if singular, or 3rd person plural, if plural, conjugation

[long whale]

Spelling! eine x-beliebige person = a random person; ein x-beliebiges Buch = a random book

[scenic drift]

please don't post the same question in both channels 😔

[fervent kernel]

Der Teppich gefällt Dir

Does that mean that you liked or that you like?

[mellow nova]

the Präteritum of gefallen is gefielen

not every verb that starts with ge- is in Perfekt, and even then it would need an auxiliary verb

does that help? @fervent kernel

[fervent kernel]

Hum...

Gefällt is present?

I thought it was past perfect

So... It means that you like, present tense?

[mellow nova]

you gotta stop mixing past and present perfect

past perfect = waren/hatten + past participle
present perfect = sein/haben + past participle

used quite differently

(past perfect is pretty rare)

but anyways yes, like i was saying, you have to have an auxiliary verb to be in Perfekt

[fervent kernel]

I haven't really learned the past perfect yet

[mellow nova]

it's for things that happened in the past before another thing that happened in the past that you will follow up with

so like in the past of the past

[fervent kernel]

Yes, yes, that I know

[mellow nova]

well then you learned it

[fervent kernel]

I mean that I haven't learned it in German

That concept applies to several languages

[mellow nova]

then you learned it ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[fervent kernel]

Ig?

Welp, thank you

[delicate mica]

Hallo ich habe eine frage :D (hope im not interrupting conversation): if i want to say "wish one could live forever" or " if only one could live for ever" (can't find the exact saying in english but something along those lines), is that a case of konjunktiv, since it is expressing a wish that is unrealistic or could never happen? And how would you express it?

My guess regarding the translation is:

"Möge man unendlich leben könnte."

But i could really use someone to correct me

[scenic drift]

"May you could live indefinitely"? doesn't really work i'm afraid 😅

[mellow nova]

the 'construction' is generally ich wünschte, ich.... (using k2 in the second clause as well)

[scenic drift]

Könnte man (nur?) ewig leben! could work, though.

[mellow nova]

ohhh you want a general statement nvm

[delicate mica]

i think thats kind of what im looking for

[delicate mica]

yeah i was pretty unsure of that sentence so i needed some help

that makes sense in my native language too

[upper ember]

Wenn man doch unsterblich wäre!

[delicate mica]

that also sounds great - could "man" be changed to "einer"? as in if only one was immortal

[upper ember]

Nein, einer wird nicht so benutzt, nur in den obliquen Kasus :))

[delicate mica]

okay - thank you!

[upper ember]

Gern geschehen!!!

[bleak rampart]

Folgen von Klimawandel

Is this correct or does it lack anything? Ping me in your answer pls

[pliant pelican]

waht is the difference between exekutieren and hinrichten???

[sharp blade]

I would say "Folgend des Klimawandels" but "Folgend von Klimawandel" is also correct.

[bleak rampart]

vielen Dank!

[rapid warren]

"Folgen von Klimawandel" is wrong. In Germany many people use this, but grammatical its not correct. I hope this will help you.

"Folgen des Klimawandels" is correct

[sharp blade]

👍

"Folgen von Klimawandel" ist umgangssprachlich

[rapid warren]

Wenn mit Dativ, dann müsste es heißen: "Folgen von dem Klimawandel". Dann wäre es grammatikalisch korrekt

Aber du hast recht, das andere kann man zwar auch sagen, ist wie du gesagt hast aber umgangssprachlich

[mild reef]

Hallo, Woher wissen wir, welcher kommt? (sein oder haben im präteritum )

[wise pendant]

Why didn't anyone say "Folgen vo__m__ Klimawandel" yet?
@sharp blade @rapid warren

[pliant pelican]

ıch denke, dass wir auswendig mussen .

denn es gibt viele Ausnahme

[sharp blade]

Ja, das geht auch

Stimmt

[rapid warren]

Stimmt, geht auch 😅

[wise pendant]

"von" wäre ja eigentlich nicht korrekt

[mild reef]

ok, Danke. Hast du eine wortlist für sein oder haben ?

[pliant pelican]

ich galube ein moment

https://deutschlernerblog.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Deutsche-Verben-unregelmäßige-starke-Verben-Liste-nach-Sprachniveau-Deutsch-deutschlernerblog_2.pdf

@mild reef

[mild reef]

Oh. Danke Schön

[pliant pelican]

bitte schön

[bleak rampart]

"Was ihr tut können, um zu helfen"

Is there anzthing wrong with this sentence? (please ping me in your answer)

[rapid warren]

Hab ich ja gesagt lul

[scenic drift]

please don't ask the same question in both channels :)

[rapid warren]

"Ihr tut alles was ihr könnt, um zu helfen"

I think you want to say this

[bleak rampart]

that alters the meaning though doesn't it?

[rapid warren]

I dont know exactly what you want to say with the sentence "Was ihr tut können, um zu helfen"

[bleak rampart]

I got advice from someone and

"Was ihr tun könnt, um zu helfen"

does this sound better?

[rapid warren]

Yes, this is better

[upper ember]

Comment dirait-on "ne m'en veux pas" en allemand ? Sei nicht böse mit mir?

[long whale]

It's "jemandem böse sein" -> Sei mir nicht böse OR Nimm es mir nicht übel :)

(jemandem etwas übelnehmen)

[fervent kernel]

Which one is better and why?

Er schien verängstigt zu sein
Er schien Angst zu haben

[rigid anvil]

Both are perfectly fine. Since the second seems easier to me I‘d rather use that one.

[ruby ferry]

could somebody help me translate this sentence? 'im Osten entsteht die Ordnung des beginnenden Kalten Krieges, die von nun an 40 Jahre lang die deutsche Geschichte prägt.', my group partner has translated it as 'In the East, rules were put into order which resulted in the Cold War, which from now on will shape Germany's history for the next 40 years.' - we've decided it doesnt make much sense but we're not quite sure how to phrase it in any other way ?

[mellow nova]

In the east, the ordinance of the (dawning/incipient/beginning/whatever) Cold War emerges, which will shape Germany's history for the next 40 years.

What you wrote is fine but I don't really see why it matters if it makes total sense in English as long as you understand the German sentence

[ruby ferry]

oh its for a graded translation class haha

[mellow nova]

ohhh gotcha

[ruby ferry]

thank u sm though !! :)

[mellow nova]

In that case it might be best to use a different verb structure (notably passive) in English for this context

i.e the ordinance is formed, the ordinance is created, is put into place etc

If there is context around the sentence you can figure that out, whether it is ordinance as in legislature or a regime or rules or w/e

[ruby ferry]

thank you!

that does make a lot more sense

[celest pollen]

Ich werde fur dich emial schicken❌ ✅

[wise pendant]

Check the orthography

And word order

[scenic drift]

in addition to the spelling/capitalization/etc errors, what are you trying to say? "I will send an email to you" or "I will send an email for you (on your behalf)"?

[celest pollen]

I will send an email to you

Ich werde e-mail für dich schicken | now?

[scenic drift]

well, you've still spelled email wrong and not capitalized it? :P

if you're wanting to say you're sending an email to someone oyu don't need a preposition.

hint: it's "jemandem etwas schicken"

[wise pendant]

where the article tho?

[celest pollen]

mmmm article?

what do you mean

[wise pendant]

"an email"

this concept also exists in German

[celest pollen]

I'm still learning all this hard stuff. Where to add what

but not even that I forget and don't want to add it. I just don't know that there has to be something

[mellow nova]

Articles are like 96% of the time 1 to 1 with english

if you used them in your english sentence that you wanted to translate into German, chances are the german sentence needs it too

[wise pendant]

if you still have no sufficient proficiency to even grasp all those concepts it's way to early to start writing sentences on your own

[celest pollen]

I think that it's not too early to build sentences, because even if I make mistakes in spoken language, the world won't collapse and I'll get along somehow

And this will come with time
during the day e.g. when I'm doing something I think "how would I say it in German"

right now I'm just making notes to myself on how to arrange all these fragesats / word order

But sometimes, I would think that it should be like that 100%. And here it is not so and the array is totally different

Some sentence arrangements don't match up at all. And I look in the notes everything and still do not know how to explain some things why something is at the end e.g. and not at the beginning etc.

[wise pendant]

by just writing sentences in a language you don't know won't make you proficient as you learn nothing by doing it.
It's like trying to draw a person from memory, if you've never seen them

you will never get there if you don't first get to know the stuff you want to produce

[celest pollen]

yes
im doing many notes about word order
all these perfekt / prateritum things

And sometimes I undertake, try to put a sentence together and give it here for evaluation

ok danke meine kamraden fur helfen

[scenic drift]

just keep working on it bud, you'll get there o7

[celest pollen]

btw
ein email ?
cuz die emial
and akkusativ ?

[wise pendant]

not quite

[scenic drift]

please check your understanding of the accusative case again 😉

[celest pollen]

hmm so i cant use my table alwys for indefinite articles

[scenic drift]

this table says accusative + eine = eine!

(also, cześć 😄 )

[celest pollen]

right
Cause I was looking at das
and it's die emial

then my table is not bad after all

[scenic drift]

polish explains the struggle with articles 😅

moving from polish to a language with articles is a very tough time.

[proven sphinx]

German actually uses articles a bit more often than English does (but not as often as French), since it also uses the article for abstract nouns like "love" (Liebe) and "hope" (Hoffnung).

Everything is fair in love and in war = In der Liebe und im Krieg ist alles erlaubt.

Don't forget that "im" is short for "in dem", so it's kind of a hidden article as well.

There's also the opposite case though, such as in "I'm a teacher", which would just be "Ich bin Lehrer" in German.

[mellow nova]

Yeah I'd still stick with the number. That's why I didn't put 100 😅

maybe it's a little lower idk how to quantify that

point being most of the time it's the same

[proven sphinx]

Uh, what? Did you write this in the wrong channel?

[mellow nova]

? no wym

[proven sphinx]

Your comment doesn't make any sense in context.

[mellow nova]

definitely does

"i'd still stick with the number (96). That's (your examples) why I didn't put 100
maybe it (96) is a little lower
point being most of the time it (articles) is the same

[scenic drift]

referring to this :)

[proven sphinx]

Ah, I see...

You were pretty vague, though.

Maybe if you'd said "percentage" rather than "number", I'd have caught on more quickly. 😅

[mellow nova]

maybe so lol, it made sense in my brain

[proven sphinx]

And "the" doesn't have any deictic function in English, meaning it doesn't point towards something like the German definite article tends to do.

You should have said "that".

That percentage.

[mellow nova]

um ok

[proven sphinx]

In any case, you're right. In the great majority of cases, German and English use an article in the same places.

[ornate shuttle]

der stil meines lebens ☑️
Mein stil des lebens ❎
Der stil von meinem leben ☑️

Ist das stimmt??, welcher satz steht besser erste oder dritte satz??

DANKE IM VORAUS

[proven sphinx]

What exactly are you even trying to say?

I'm not sure if "Stil" is even the right word here.

If it is though, only the first one would be correct in Standard German.

Mein Lebensstil.

That's what I'd say instead.

[ornate shuttle]

Ja Lebensstil hört sich besser an

Danke

[proven sphinx]

It's the only correct way, really. "Der Stil meines Lebens" sounds like you're referring to a specific style that is like reflective of your entire life, and not necessarily your lifestyle.

[celest pollen]

Oh. Ich bin sehr müde. Ich deutsch seit zwei stunden lerne ✅ ❌

[proven sphinx]

"Ich bin sehr müde. Ich lerne Deutsch schon seit zwei Stunden."

Only place the verb last if it's a subordinate clause, usually introduced by "dass", "weil", "da", "damit" etc.

However, if you were to connect those two sentences, then the verb would indeed come last.

"Ich bin sehr müde, da ich schon seit zwei Stunden Deutsch lerne."

[celest pollen]

"Da" ist connector?

[proven sphinx]

Yeah, it means the same as "weil" (because).

[celest pollen]

ah i only know "da" from this side

[proven sphinx]

It can mean that as well. Many words have different meanings.

[celest pollen]

one word and so many meanings, this is how I see it in German often

[proven sphinx]

You could write a sentence like: "Essen wir jetzt, da er schon da ist", where each "da" is used differently. The first "da" means "because" and the second "da" means "here".

[celest pollen]

z.b ob
have many meanings

[proven sphinx]

Hmm, does it, though? 🤔

Ich weiß nicht, ob ich kommen kann = I don't know if I can come

That's how it's normally used.

[celest pollen]

this is how I see it

ob - of course
ob - whether

[proven sphinx]

ob - of course
Excuse me, what? That can't be right. Where do you have that from?

[celest pollen]

https://yourdailygerman.com/meaning-of-ob/

at the end of article

und ob sorry

[proven sphinx]

Ahhhhhh...

It's "und ob", not just "ob".

"Und ob!" as a whole can mean "of course".

[celest pollen]

ob - due to / because
like "Wegen" im right?

[proven sphinx]

That usage is extremely rare. I'm not sure why they felt the need to mention it.

Usually, you just say "wegen".

"Ob des starken Regens wurde das Fußballspiel abgesagt."

That sounds very formal, almost literary.

They even say so...

[pure stream]

I believe the article says or implies it’s mostly used in a literary/formal context

Yeah!

[proven sphinx]

A common synonym of "wegen" would be "aufgrund", though.

Wegen des starken Regens...
Aufgrund des starken Regens...

[plucky salmon]

Can someone translate this first big sentence for me

[scenic drift]

could you have a go at translating it yourself, first? :)

[proven sphinx]

You could try putting it into DeepL as well.

[onyx rain]

To agree with someone, ich bin mit dir einverstanden, ist das zu formell ? Ist es ein informeller Typ?

[long whale]

It doesn't really work, it would mean something like "I accept you". It would either be Ich stimme dir zu (rather formal) or Du hast recht (IMO the more idiomatic thing to say) :)

If you want to agree to someone's suggestion (for an activity, or the price of something), you could say [Ich bin] Einverstanden :)

[kind ocean]

I don't understand why the verb is written like that in this sentence: "Noch nie war etwas derart Riesiges aus Eisen konstruiert worden". Shouldn't it be 'geworden'? Or is it just a way of spelling it

[mellow nova]

in Passiv you use the participle 'worden' to construct Perfekt/Plusquamperfekt

if using Perfekt of werden then you use geworden

ist geöffnet worden
ist geworden

[kind ocean]

Ahh ok, it's because it's passive

[runic carbon]

What German online free course would you recommend that can take you from lower B1 to B2-C1 and isn't DW (I don't like DW at all)

[mellow nova]

I don't know if a free course can go up to c1 tbh

[runic carbon]

Well there's probably one for B1 and one for B2 like different ones

I mean after Upper B1/B2 you don't really need a course it's just immersion, and you can be reading articles etc and translating what you don't know

like readle, but I can't do it now because of seperable verbs ways of using verbs sentence constructions etc that are just incomprehensible to me and also a lot of words that I don't know

[fallow ledge]

There are free exercises about for B2-C1 you could give them a go

The exersise book „Der Weg mit den typischen Fehlern“ has a lot of good things if you can procure a copy

And you can probably find some resources that list grammar topics by level and you can find more info on those individually

And like you said a lot of it is immersion at this point, speak listen read and write a lot

[runic carbon]

yeah I guess I should read articles like this for example and memorise the words that I don't understand and afterwards rewrite it it looks like the best way to get the language

the problem is that these things confuse me. why bemslte and not malte

there are a lot of things like that I just gave an example

[fallow ledge]

Bemalen is to but paint directly onto a surface

Like er bemalte das Haus, he put paint on the house

Er malte das Haus, he put paint on a canvas and made a picture of the house

[runic carbon]

what does it even mean, you always paint onto a surface

[whole portal]

You bemalen a canvas

but you malen an image

[runic carbon]

but here ein ganzes Dorf

[fallow ledge]

Yup

[runic carbon]

🧐

[whole portal]

It's about what is referenced

If bemalen is the predicate, then the object is the object that is being painted on

If malen is the predicate, the object is the thing being painted/created.

bemalen can kinda be translated with to paint on something while malen is just painting something

[runic carbon]

ohhh

if malen ein ganzes Dorf it would mean that he paints this village

like the village isn't real

[whole portal]

yes

he's painting the walls of the houses in your example tho

[runic carbon]

that's why I need a course how am I supposed to know those things

🧐

[fallow ledge]

Dictionaries are nice, like DWDS or duden

You can also look up explanations for what prefixes do

Be- is a rather straight forward one

[whole portal]

bemalen

mit [bunten] Malereien o. Ä. verzieren
mit Farbe streichen
sich in übertriebener Weise schminken

[fallow ledge]

You read the examples too
Admittedly its sometimes a little harder to understand than it should be, feel free to ask here

[whole portal]

malen

mit Pinsel und Farbe (ein Bild) herstellen
mit Pinsel und Farbe im Bild [künstlerisch] darstellen
mit Pinsel und Farbe künstlerisch tätig sein
langsam, wie malend (1c) schreiben, Zeichen auf etwas aufbringen
!!!
mit Farbe streichen; Farbe auf etwas auftragen (this is more of a rare/old fashioned, countryside use which basically means the same as bemalen but I don't think anyone really says that)
!!!
als, in Farbe auftragen
Lippenstift, Nagellack auf etwas auftragen (again weird imo)
sich in etwas ausdrücken, widerspiegeln

[runic carbon]

[whole portal]

Wait til you see the page for Schnecke

Duden lists 12 different meanings

[fallow ledge]

Sure there are ways to make the process easier for yourself too

Such is the self learning way tho, if you want a course youll probably have to find one

[whole portal]

(like 9 of these either arent really distinct uses, super specific uses or ones that I have never heard in my life)

[runic carbon]

yesh I ment a self learning one, like simply somewhere that has everything. there is Wlingua vut it's up to A2, other than that there's nothing

[swift bough]

For machen it has 20 xD

Not that surprising though for that word

[runic carbon]

er ist der Meinung🧐

[whole portal]

Yes?

he is of the opinion, that ...

[runic carbon]

hm

I thought that he is the opinion

😳

[whole portal]

That would be er ist die Meinung

I assume this is also some elliptical form of something longer but I can't really think of it right now

[swift bough]

Nah

[swift bough]

„jemand ist der Meinung“ = someone is of the opinion

Because Meinung is in genitive in that construction

Normally it is die Meinung in nominative

Which is why if you say „Er ist die Meinung“ you just said that a Person is an opinion

Which makes zero sens e

[runic carbon]

she is an opinion

🙄

[swift bough]

😂

[runic carbon]

ich denke, dass wir, als Gesellschaft, mehrerer aufmerksam auf Leuten die sich heissen "Opinion" machen müssen

I think that we as a society must call more attention to people called "Opinion"

[long whale]

There are about a dozen errors in that sentence. It would have to be somethng like "Ich denke, dass wir als Gesellschaft Leuten, die "Opinion" heißen, mehr Aufmerksamkeit schenken sollten." Although, to be honest, I'm not quite sure how to translate "call attention to" here, since "jemandem Aufmerksamkeit schenken" doesn't really mean the same thing, I think. 🤔

@swift bough ?

[long whale]

That won't wash, since to make sense, it would require a direct object: jemanden auf etwas aufmerksam machen 🤷

[mellow nova]

you obviously know more about it than me but isn't the first example on that site 'auf etw aufmerksam machen'

no jemanden

second example has no jemanden either

[long whale]

Mm... Possible, although frankly, those examples sound a bit awkward to me. Still, I don't really see a way to using this in the above sentence without it becoming really awkward. 🤷

[swift bough]

Honestly it’s quite tricky. I was thinking about going about it like this: think about synonyms of „to call attention to“, and see if any of those synonyms match a German translation really well.

Sometimes that has worked for me

As you sometimes have synonyms for something in a language, but not every single one of these synonyms exists in other languages

„To call attention to“ to me means „to consider“ or sometimes even like „to redirect focus onto“

Context dependent

[long whale]

Yeah, "die Aufmerksamkeit auf etwas lenken" might work, except it wouldn't really work with "mehr"...

[long whale]

If that is what it means to you, then "Aufmerksamkeit schenken" would work fine, I think. I thought "to call attention to sth" was more like "to raise awareness of sth".

[hazy portal]

German seems so difficult

😫 I will never be able to learn it

[upper ember]

Man sagt ja Deutsche Sprache, Schwere Sprache nicht aus keinem Grund. Aber vertrau mir, es gibt Sprachen, die schwieriger sind... :)) vielleicht ist deine Muttersprache eine!

[hazy portal]

Hm no, I'm a polyglot

I speak French, Spanish, English, Russian, Ukrainian fluently and my native language is Hebrew but German is impossible to learn

[runic carbon]

I agree that Russian is more difficult than German, but Russian is learnable, German isn't

[upper ember]

Warum meinst du, dass Deutsch unmöglich zu lernen sei? Hast du mal versucht, Koreanisch zu lernen? Das ist doch schwierig...

Wie hast du alle diesen unterschiedlichen Sprachen gelernt? Sie sind sich sehr ähnlich, glaubst du nicht? Du bist schon daran angewöhnt, eine gewisse Denkweise beim Sprechen zu benutzen.

[runic carbon]

korean is also learnable definitely, because there are strict rules and there are guides that you can follow online like there are apps dedicated for it that pass you through everything

[upper ember]

Im Russischen muss man sich keine Sorgen über den Gebrauch von den Artikeln machen, aber die Verbformen sind doch sehr verwirrend...

[runic carbon]

Russian French and English are very similar? I didn't know that

[hazy portal]

I don't agree, I think Russian is very easy lol

[upper ember]

Na klar.. Alle diese indoeuropäischen Sprachen haben ja Ähnlichkeiten... :) die haben die gleichen Bestandteil der Sprachen, nämlich die Sätze, die Predikate usw...

[hazy portal]

Because they are all very useful, I don't intend on trying to learn Korean because it isn't useful for me I'm not going to be in Korea

[hazy portal]

Hebrew is Semitic

[upper ember]

Jede Sprache ist erlernbar, aber seien wir mal ehrlich, Koreanisch ist für einen Europäer schwierig haha

[runic carbon]

But korean has guides online for it, German doesn't really have resources and courses that's why it's so difficult

[fervent kernel]

wait german doesn't?

[upper ember]

Ich habe diejenigen, die du gesagt hast, dass du fließend sprichst, gemeint

¿Cómo has podido aprender todas estas lenguas? Cuéntame tu historia en #languages, estoy curioso (mi lengua materna es el español)

[fervent kernel]

did you learn korean before?

[runic carbon]

Gernan doesn't have such good resources, Korean has apps dedicated for it and very easy and good to use

[upper ember]

Leider weißt du nicht, wovon du redest 😢 es gibt sehr viele Quellen, mit denen man Deutsch lernen kann!!

[runic carbon]

give me one of them

[fervent kernel]

did korean become such a desired language lately?

[runic carbon]

it is less desired than German but it is more learnable

[upper ember]

Das Koreanische zu lernen erfordert, dass man die Kultur sehr gut und auf eine sehr tiefe Weise versteht. In der Sprache gibts viele Niveau von Höflichkeit, die den Europäern fremd sind.

Reden wir im #languages Kanal weiter, da hier nur für die Fragen über die deutsche Sprache angepasst ist

[runic carbon]

there are the apps eggbun, teuida, hanji, patchim, that are all great for it. Deutsch has nothing

Deutsch hat keine

[fervent kernel]

were those apps specifically created for learning korean only?

[runic carbon]

Deutsch ist eine Europäische Sprache aber hat keine Resource

[runic carbon]

yeah

[fervent kernel]

yeah no idea why there are no german apps available 🤔

[runic carbon]

same about most languages. only Asian languages have apps, prolly because Asians are smart and bug on those software stuff so they make apps

[upper ember]

LoL wahrscheinlich

[fervent kernel]

yeah they are also more open to digital learning i guess

[runic carbon]

Prolly like Chinese has it's own Duolingo

called Hello Chinese

[upper ember]

Hangeul zu lernen erfordert viel Mühe

[runic carbon]

and they're all very developed

[fervent kernel]

china has their own variation for many apps

[runic carbon]

same about the countries like be in Tokyo it's like you're in 2200

[upper ember]

Ich spreche fleißendes Chinesch, da ich in China gewohnt habe

Außerdem ist die Sprache nicht sooo schwierig

[runic carbon]

it's so developed like you're in the future

[fervent kernel]

i guess some cities are? not all

[runic carbon]

I mean most of the 10 biggest ones in each country

probably more

[mellow nova]

Hangul is like the easiest alphabet in the world though

[runic carbon]

maybe if you kno nothing, otherwise everything is easier

like I learned the Greek alphabet in 10 minutes

[mellow nova]

nope it's pretty well accepted that Hangul is the easiest alphabet to learn by linguists

it was created to be easy

that's the point

[runic carbon]

hm no

[mellow nova]

k

[hushed spade]

It was created so the poor can read, It was invented by a single person to literarly be easy

[runic carbon]

it isn't used like you use "normal" alphabets, Greek alphabet is used like you use the english alphabet that's why it's so easy to learn, you just learn the letters and that's it

in Hangul not only you need to learn the letters but also the system of the alphabet

[mellow nova]

it's literally every syllable is a character

[hushed spade]

But that isnt really hard... I dont know Hangul but I learned Hiragana/katakana in about 2 days

[mellow nova]

I promise you this has already been studied by people that know much more than either of us about world writing systems

[hushed spade]

which is harder than Hangul I think

[runic carbon]

There are rules how you put them together@mellow nova

[mellow nova]

one very simple rigid rule correct

[runic carbon]

I still disagree with those people

[hushed spade]

He isnt gonna accept it.... Ignorance

[mellow nova]

I can genuinely say i don't care

[runic carbon]

this tbh

[mellow nova]

anyway not for #questions

bye have a.. night

bye have a.. night

[runic carbon]

have a night as well

[fervent kernel]

oh damn guys you should really talk about stuff like this in #languages there is a mod called bulli and it would break his heart to see people write anything but questions and answers related to german in this channel

[runic carbon]

@fervent kernel verstanden, bully*

[reef kiln]

"Wissen Sie, ich muss zu einer Freundin ins/im Krankenhaus."
Would you use ins (Akk) Krankenhaus because you are also going to the hospital or would you use im (Dat) because your friend is in the hospital?

[swift bough]

I think it can mean that as well, but it wouldn’t work in all the same contexts that „to call attention to“ does.

[rapid warren]

I would say both is correct

[whole portal]

Yea

Im Krankenhaus focuses on the friend while ins Krankenhaus focuses on the hospital as you said

Your choice

Personally I'd use ins

[celest pollen]

🚀🇩🇪 Ich bin sehr stolz, denn dich einen film fur uns gemacht✅❌

[long whale]

Please check the faq for Perfekt (made/have made) in #botchannel Also, please note capitalization of nouns isn't optional in German: Film. And the dots aren't simply decorative: für - please check the faq for German keyboard in #botchannel

Also, your denn-clause is missing a subject, unless "dich" is a typo.

@celest pollen

[reef kiln]

Thank you JG and yoshi32 👍

[celest pollen]

Da ich am Samstag ins Theater gehe, ich kaufe eine neues kleidung✅ ❌

[whole portal]

❌

[quasi bear]

Da ich am Samstag ins Theater gehe, kaufe ich neue Kleidung. or
Ich kaufe neue Kleidung, da ich am Samstag ins Theater gehe.

[whole portal]

Da ich am Samstag ins Theater gehe, kaufe ich mir neue Sachen.

Yea or the other way around

Ich kaufe neue Sachen, da ich Samstags ins Theater gehe.

[celest pollen]

danke für die Antwort

[split zephyr]

Hallo

İch bin Halil UND bin 19

İch suche ein Lernpartner, um Deutsch zu lernen

Wer will Man mir helfen

[fervent kernel]

Fur viel schadlicher ? is that an expression

[scenic drift]

do you have more context? :)

[fervent kernel]

Fur viel schadlicher als Fast food halten Experten die sogenannten kinderlebensmittel

[swift bough]

The expressions is „halten für“

[fervent kernel]

what does it mean exactly

[echo sleet]

Experten halten Fast Food für viel schädlicher (obwohl hier passt "ungesünder" mehr) als Lebensmittel.

[swift bough]

—> Die Experten halten die sogenannten Kinderlebensmittel für schädlicher als Fastfood

It means they consider it unhealthier

But yeah it is more literally like „more damaging“

[echo sleet]

yes

[swift bough]

If you want the more literal word for unhealthier then it is ungesünder

[radiant pilot]

schouldn't it be halten von?

[fervent kernel]

thank youu

[scenic drift]

why would it be? 🤔

[fervent kernel]

you 2 thanksss

[swift bough]

That is a different, separate expression

[radiant pilot]

to think of something?

[radiant pilot]

ok thanks

[swift bough]

In that sentence it would make no sense

[radiant pilot]

i think i get you

ok found it

[icy flax]

Mir ist etwas unklar mit das "wohl" geblieben. Kann "vielleicht" nicht immer gegen "wohl" getäuscht werden? Soweit ich wusste, sygnalisiert das "wohl" die Unsicherheit einer Vermutung, ist aber ugs. Liege ich da etwa falsch?

[night dagger]

„wohl“ ist mehr wie „wahrscheinlich“, ne?

[full narwhal]

Das wohl ist das befinden einer Person. Ob sie sich wohl fühlt(kann man auch “sicher” nennen) oder ob sie sich halt nicht wohlfühlt

[full narwhal]

“Obwohl” in einem satz würde die Unsicherheit bei jemanden bedeuten

Aber das Wohlsein ist was anderes

[long whale]

a) wohl is not colloquial b) liebe is right c) You can reply to a Yes/No question by saying "Vielleicht" (maybe). In Standard German, you can't reply by simply saying "Wohl" - if/when people do that, it's regional/dialectal and is the answer to a negative question, same as "doch". :)

[shut briar]

Ich nehm’ noch einen Whiskey.”
“NOCH einen? Hast du nicht langsam genug?

I don’t get langsam genug here, if it’s a fixedphrase it’s not in the dictionary

[long whale]

"langsam" is a synonym for "allmählich" here - does that help?

The meaning is like "by now" - Haven't you had enough by now?

[shut briar]

Actually i did get that, but i don’t understand how you extracted the meaning by now from that

[long whale]

😳 By thinking "What would I say in English to convey the same meaning?"

That's why I didn't say "This is what it means", because depending on context, the translation would change.

[shut briar]

Hahaha yeah, maybe i should have how does ‘one’ do that

I think i’m gonna leave this one, i do get the meaning, you told me what it mens here, but using it would be just copying without understanding

[long whale]

Yes, that's a very good idea in this case, I think. :)

[long whale]

In my particular case, I only read English books whenever I can get them, have been doing so for several decades, plus, I used to translate films (for dubbinb purposes) from English to German. But I'm quite sure there are faster ways to get there. ;)

[shut briar]

Oh that’s so cool, I’ve been watching a lot of dubs, i must have seen some of your works

[shut briar]

Not that either, how do i do that is the right question

[long whale]

Read, read, read, listen, listen, listen - probably. 🤷

[mellow nova]

Is there anything you haven't done

[radiant pilot]

being a grumpygrumps vampy, i guess

[thin glacier]

I find this very interesting because this reminds me of how dominant English media is in Germany.

• so much anglicisms in everyday speech and the work environment.

[mellow nova]

W for the english native german learners

[thin glacier]

... w? :D

[radiant pilot]

win

[thin glacier]

Did not know that, thanks!

[radiant pilot]

[mellow nova]

W - good thing
L - bad thing

[thin glacier]

i see

this channel stays true to itself

[long whale]

Once you get to my age... discreetly adjusting false teeth

[radiant pilot]

[fervent kernel]

Nice Discord name, does it mean bear?

[radiant pilot]

Teddy bear

[fervent kernel]

Would you mind me dming you?

[shut flume]

Hallo
Wann hat dein Vater Geburtstag?
I need help becuse i am preparing for my finals
pls help

[fervent kernel]

What do you need help in?

Hallo sprechen deutsche

[shut flume]

i need the answer of

Wann hat dein Vater Geburtstag?

[thorny surge]

i need help with something too]...

[fervent kernel]

You can ask questions here?

[thorny surge]

how do i like learn german and remember it

[fervent kernel]

14.05.1975

[shut flume]

practice everyday

[shut flume]

no i want it in the form of a sentence

[radiant pilot]

it's okay, we can talk here 👋

[thorny surge]

oh okay thanks, then what should i start with tho?

[fervent kernel]

Quite fascinating

[shut flume]

umm what do you have difficulty in ?

[radiant pilot]

lla mghribi

[fervent kernel]

You asked when was my father's birthday right?

[thorny surge]

hmmm, idrk

lol never thought about that

[fervent kernel]

Are you ancient?

[fervent kernel]

Oh, I didn't know that you use that word also

[thorny surge]

like i know hello in german which is hallo

[shut flume]

then wats ur level @thorny surge

[fervent kernel]

What lvl are you talking about?

[shut flume]

A1 ,A2 etc

[fervent kernel]

Ohhh

I see

[icy cape]

Any links for a1 books pdf

[shut flume]

yup a looooot

[fervent kernel]

Just started learning German

[thorny surge]

beginner

just started learning

[fervent kernel]

I hate learning grammer

[thorny surge]

same man

[fervent kernel]

Makes me want to quit

[shut flume]

Same here

[thorny surge]

nicee

does Danke schön mean thank you?

[shut flume]

y i lovve german

[icy cape]

Why bruh?

[shut flume]

correct

[thorny surge]

yay

[shut flume]

@thorny surge try duolingo

[thorny surge]

okie, ima prob start learning starter things like covo starters

[thorny surge]

oh... i don't rlly have the money to

[fervent kernel]

They have stuff like der, die, das eine einer I get confused as hell

[shut flume]

@thorny surge np its free

[thorny surge]

oh

dang

ima prob try it when i get home

[fervent kernel]

Ich lernen Deutsch aber schwere grammatik

[shut flume]

Hello these are some links that i found to learn n practise german
https://www.dw.com/en/learn-german/s-2469

• https://www.wdrmaus.de/

• https://www.duolingo.com/learn

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuGmc662HDg&list=PLF9mJC4RrjIhS4MMm0x72-qWEn1LRvPuW

• https://app.memrise.com/aprender/learn?course_id=2142010%3Frecommendation_id%3Da2507d48-af8e-4c8f-8a36-56acaabf584f&source_element=scb&source_screen=dashboard

• https://www.youtube.com/user/andreathionville

•https://www.busuu.com/dashboard#/learning/course/start/objective_de_2017023_1/unit_de_complete_a1_1_3/activity_de_a1_1_3_1/exercise_2

• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCctbi1Jw2jiVhj2ogdwiFdA

• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFV-9HdgROeTPyci6g0AHTA

• https://www.jublie2.com/learn-german-through-music/

• https://lampundsumfleth.de/

• http://teddylingua.de/

[long whale]

Take it slowly. Don't try to learn everything at once. You'll get there in time. :)

[shut flume]

stronglu agree

[icy cape]

I think dw learn german is better than Duolingo
Also It won't threaten you like duolingo☠️

[fervent kernel]

Dude where did you get those

[shut flume]

while surfing internet bro 😄

google

[thorny surge]

oooh nett

[fervent kernel]

Yeah I will try

[shut flume]

https://i.imgur.com/RgjuGDX.png

[shut flume]

yes it is

[swift bough]

We have a faq just for duolingo…

faq Duolingo

[stoic mauve]

Duolingo

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 .

[shut flume]

dw is best

faq Dw

[stoic mauve]

FAQ not found. Try >explain all.

[shut flume]

explain all

[stoic mauve]

See a listed FAQ with >faq [name]

:small_blue_diamond: absentive

Aliases: absentiv

:small_blue_diamond: Accusative

Aliases: Akkusativ

:small_blue_diamond: Adjective Declension

Aliases: adjective endings, Adjektivdeklination

:small_blue_diamond: Anki

Aliases: flashcards

:small_blue_diamond: beginner 2

‎

:small_blue_diamond: Beide vs. Beides

Aliases: Beides vs. Beide, Beides, Beide

:small_blue_diamond: Best way to learn German

Aliases: learn fast, learn German fast, learn efficiently, best way to learn, fastest way to learn, most efficient way to learn

:small_blue_diamond: birthdays

‎

:small_blue_diamond: Cases

Aliases: case, grammatical case

:small_blue_diamond: CEFR levels

Aliases: lvl, CEFR, cerf

:small_blue_diamond: conjugation

Aliases: praesens, präsens, present tense, verbs, verb conjugation, Konjugation

:small_blue_diamond: Contractions

Aliases: Verschmelzung, vom, Schmelzwort

:small_blue_diamond: DACH

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:small_blue_diamond: Dative

Aliases: Dativ

:small_blue_diamond: doch

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[shut flume]

tut mir lied leute

[night dagger]

kein Problem - es gibt #botchannel dafür :)

[fervent kernel]

How do i say that my phone is dead in german? Does it translate directly as "mein Handy ist tot" or is it something else in German?

[placid torrent]

Mein Akku ist leer

[fervent kernel]

danke!!!

[placid torrent]

sehr gerne

[final stream]

why 'es wird langsam' means different than 'es wird other adjective' ? its only about 'langsam'?

[mellow nova]

as opposed to...

[fervent kernel]

Es wird langsam besser

Es wird langseim Zeit

[final stream]

'werden' should be 'will' right?

[mellow nova]

no 'werden' plus another present tense verb means 'will' as in future tense (though the 'werden' can just be omitted)

werden means 'to become'

[final stream]

then 'es wird schnell' is wrong in ss?

confused🥺

[swift bough]

"es wird schnell" is like a colloquial version of "es wird schnell sein", though it depends what exactly you actually mean

because if you do mean "it is getting fast", there is no reason to add sein

[celest pollen]

Wie kann man es im deutsch gesagt?✅❌

[merry python]

"Wie kann man es auf Deutsch sagen?"

[celest pollen]

Sagen in the infinitive because "Man"?

[mellow nova]

no pronoun would make it gesagt

that's not how modals work

kann gesagt is 100% always wrong, and kann sagen is always right (change conjugation of kann depending on pronoun)

[swift bough]

yeah for modals the second verb stays in infinitive

aka sagen

[vast violet]

vllt "es wird schneller" funktioniert besser?

[swift bough]

Kommt auf den Kontext an

[obsidian birch]

Genau

[swift bough]

Beides ist richtig

[celest pollen]

Ok because I understood ( a little ) how the whole word order works and I make some stupid sentences so don't hold it against me

I just want to know if it's grammatically correct

Ich Weiß es nicht, wie eine Pizza geschmecket habe. weil ich nicht pizza mag, und ich finde es ist zu teuer.✅❌

[scenic drift]

wie eine Pizza schmecken - please check your verb conjugation here again 👀

[celest pollen]

Jetzt ?

[scenic drift]

no 😔

[celest pollen]

Ok ok i will try again

[scenic drift]

word order in the first sentence once you fix that conjugation (and check your capitalization of weiß) - good :)

i think for the second sentence, it needs to be a part of the first sentence:
"Ich weiß nicht... , weil ich..."
and "es ist zu teuer" -> "sie ist zu teuer", because die Pizza 🤔

[celest pollen]

Mmmm i fixed that dot . Next to weil as you said and ( idk whether right ) conjugated schmecken ?

But still dont know what is with Weiß

[scenic drift]

well, is it a noun?

[scenic drift]

still not the right conjugation of schmecken 😔 remind me - you're polish, right?

pls don't just send the answers 😔

[full narwhal]

I just wanted to help him

He was completely aside

[celest pollen]

Yes

Ahhh i already saw that corrext one 🥲

[scenic drift]

i'm just gonna try to mirror what you did against how the polish would sound if you used that verb:
"Ich Weiß es nicht, wie eine Pizza schmecken" (your first attempt) - "Nie Wiem, jak smakować pizza." - sounds a bit weird, and the capitalization is wrong, right? 😉
"Ich Weiß es nicht, wie eine Pizza geschmecket habe" - "Nie Wiem, jak smakował pizza" - again, sounds a bit weird, right? 😉

(trying to figure out the right verb to make it sound 'wrong' is surprisingly hard )

[celest pollen]

right
sounds very strange

[scenic drift]

now, if you were to say "jak smakuje pizza"...

[celest pollen]

The German guy who corrected me wrote "schmeckt"

But I don't know why he wrote that.
because pizza is er/sie/es?

[scenic drift]

yes!

[fervent kernel]

yeah

[scenic drift]

you'd say "pizza smakuje", right? that's 3rd person singular, so er/sie/es.

[celest pollen]

die pizza
sie pizza ( It looks weird, but that's how I understand it now.

die = femine
sie = femine

[scenic drift]

Die Pizza, sie schmeckt gut :)

[fervent kernel]

that's correct

[celest pollen]

mmmmmmm
Is that how I can explain it?
That der die,das I can put under er/ sie / es

[scenic drift]

yes! those match up. der-er, die-sie, das-es

[celest pollen]

so

Ich weiß es nicht, wie eine Pizza schmeckt, weil ich nicht pizza mag, und ich finde sie ist zu teuer

[scenic drift]

Weiß... weiß... which one... capital W or not? is it a noun?🙂

would you write "ja wiem" or "ja Wiem"? :)

[celest pollen]

aaaaaa

[fervent kernel]

just a quick question? with the "es" ... do you mean the fact that a pizza is expensive or the pizza?

[celest pollen]

a pizza is expensive

You guys are doing such a good job helping people here. It's just cosmic.🔥

[fervent kernel]

"es" would go if you mean the fact.... often used that way in slang

but if you mean " i think the pizza is too expensive" with "sie" it would sound more smooth

cause that way you mean the pizza specifically

[celest pollen]

ok
I will probably have a phase in the near future of making sentences

because I've only just understood the final conjunctions so completely
But the next ones are more of a formality because I'm starting to grasp all this stuff as I study 1-2 hours every day

[split zephyr]

Hello

[heavy viper]

hello could someone explain the meaning of "massnahme" in this word "Weiterbildungsmassnahmen". I could only found that it means "regulation" or "measure" but i don't think these meanings make sense in this context.

[mellow nova]

it means 'measures'

The employment agency can promote further training measures

[runic birch]

It means that they (the Agentur für Arbeit) will pay for all the costs for your further education training

[kind knoll]

No that's correct, Maßnahmen means measures or regulations

"The agent is able to facilitate many measures of further education and take on the costs"

[fervent kernel]

is "das Unmögliche" how i'd say "the impossible"

[long whale]

Yup. :)

[night dagger]

ich hab das Unmögliche gemögelt - ich wünschte, dieser Satz wäre grammatikalisch richtig

[fervent kernel]

Danke!

[swift bough]

„gemögelt“…ist das überhaupt ein Wort?

Gar nicht, oder

[night dagger]

nö, nicht unbedingt aber ich werde es in meiner imaginären Welt verwenden und du kannst dasselbe machen :)

[nimble viper]

I don't understand how this was was meant to be translated, is it very idiomatic? - „Mittlerweile gibt's zu noch zwei Fähren" - "There are only two ferries these days"

[whole portal]

Is that the whole sentence?

[grim sigil]

@swift bough Es heißt gemogelt

[tough rock]

Change the „zu“ to „nur“ and it is a correct translation. The „zu“ makes no sense. „Es gibt nur noch…“ = there are only…

[swift bough]

Eig war es nur ein Witz glaube ich

„gemogelt“ kannte ich

[grim sigil]

Achso

[night dagger]

sorry, ich hätte mich klarer ausdrucken müssen. war bloß ein Witz.

[narrow pier]

hi is this simple sentence gramatically correct

ich habe eines weißes Jackett

?

[red swan]

nein

Ich habe eine kleine Jacke

[narrow pier]

but in german theres ( das jackett) and ( die jacke )

i was asking about the das

?

or only sakko is used instead of a jackett

?

[wise pendant]

"Ich habe ein weißes Jackett"

[narrow pier]

so the ein takes no (es)