questions-2

[steel patrol]

Yeah, that's definitely common too.

But maybe proper "gym bros" have different lingo, I don't know.

[sacred jackal]

Like why in some sentences we have to reverse subject and the verb (like in question)

Like for exemple (jetzt muss ich eine pizza nehemen )

(Im so bad in german btw xD)

[fervent kernel]

What would be the best place to learn "Fachsprache" but from Gym Bros?

[steel patrol]

Cause German sentence structure 🌈 🌈 🔥

[fervent kernel]

I mean, it Puts a different emphasis on a different part of the sentence

[steel patrol]

Not sure, maybe just try searching for some informative and/or instructional fitness videos on YouTube?

[fervent kernel]

Your example implies that JEZT because of Something that Happens, you are required to Take a pizza

[steel patrol]

In German,I mean.

[pure walrus]

What is a difference between "drohen" and "bedrohen"?

[sacred jackal]

Thank you so much for clarifying.

[near folio]

https://german.stackexchange.com/a/12093

[pure walrus]

Thank you. I just saw that in my example passive is used.

[drifting mulch]

Another few questions
Ich dusche ___ am Morgen.
Is it mich, mir, ich, sich and why?

[steel patrol]

What would your guess be?:)

[drifting mulch]

I’m leaning towards mir or mich

But I’m pretty lost 😭

[half arch]

It'd be mich

But I'm not really good with theoretical grammar

So I can't really explain it

[steel patrol]

To my knowledge it would just be "ich dusche jeden Morgen," but it you must use one of the two then it would definitely be the Accusative case (since you're performing the task/action on yourself).

[drifting mulch]

Ok I found this chart and mich seems to fit the criteria

[half arch]

You're right, but "Ich dusche mich." works too

[steel patrol]

Schön! But, just to clarify, is "mich" in "ich dusche ... " optional then?

[half arch]

Yes

It is

[steel patrol]

Wonderful

[empty flume]

Guten Abend, Ich möchte eine Bewerbungs Email schicken, nur ich weiß nicht ob das stimmt oder überhaupt höfflich ist: Im Anhang sende ich Ihnen die benötigten Unterlagen, um mich initiativ für ein Praktikum in Ihrem Unternehmen als Praktikant zu bewerben.

Könnte sich jemand zeit nehmmen, um es anzuschauen

[swift bough]

Eigentlich klingt das meiner Meinung nach grammatikalisch ganz perfekt und außerdem ziemlich förmlich, aber man würde statt „in“ „bei“ verwenden

Also ich denke, dass es so richtiger wäre

Weil es normalerweise heißt „sich bei jdm/etw um eine Stelle bewerben“

[half arch]

Ohne "als Praktikant", da dies bereits mit "für ein Praktikum" vermittelt wird.

[swift bough]

Ach ja, das stimmt auch noch

[empty flume]

Vielen Dank

[pallid gyro]

"I must have read that a thousand times and I still don't get it."; wie würde man eine solche Übertreibung wie 'a thousand times' auf Deutsch ausdrücken?

Ich habe das X gelesen, aber ich verstehe immer noch nicht.

[night dagger]

tausendmal

[pallid gyro]

Danke! es wirkt wie eine Übertreibung, und nicht buchstäblich, richtig?

[night dagger]

ja

[pallid gyro]

great, thanks a lot!!

[night dagger]

man kann es bildlich verwenden auf alle Fälle

[pallid gyro]

noted!

[celest pollen]

Jetzt gehe ich die Müll rausbringen✅ ❌

[fleet bridge]

“Nennt sie ihren Namen?” What does this mean?

[celest pollen]

I think "Tell her name"
||but im a stupid a1 guy||

[fleet bridge]

Is that a question sentence though?

[celest pollen]

ok don't pay attention to my answer or I will mislead you

[tender panther]

"mention" seems to work the best

Did she mention her name

[fervent kernel]

Tbh the sentence sounds weird for me

Maybe, nennt sie bei ihrem Namen
(?)

And no, it's imperative

[icy flax]

@fleet bridge, @fervent kernel,
does she say her name?
||I dont think it is very idiomatic but that is what I read||

[regal rover]

does someone have a resource from where i can learn a few german grammar vocabs

like weiblich, mänlich, Präsens...

[icy flax]

I dont think "weiblich" and "männlich" are particularly included in grammar vocab. "Maskulin, Feminin und Neutrum" are the ways the genders are usually called.

I'd suggest you to open DWDS in a tab and in other open wikipedia in german, where then you'd search for Grammatik. Also, you could search for "deutsch lingolia" and check their articles on many topics in the left column. All gonna be in German and with DWDS you can get the meanings.

[woven nova]

What should i start with as an absolute beginner

[narrow pier]

Hi i have a question der ausflug means trip, but the youtube (konstanze k) she says that you can talk about seeing a sightsee, playing footbal, are those really considered a trip?

[willow marlin]

learn the pronouns and numbers I'd say. Then learn the most common words. Choose a topicc you want to learn about to get you excited about learning

[mellow nova]

faq beginner

[stoic mauve]

How to get started

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

Introduction

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

Part 1 - Simple Sentence

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

See Part 2 on the next page.

Tips

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

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[austere lily]

• verbringen (to spend time)

Is it as easy as: "Ich verbringe mit meiner Freunden" (I spend time with my friends)?

[mellow nova]

no you still put Zeit after the verb

also meinen* for plural

[austere lily]

Oh okay danke

So

Ich verbringe die Zeit mit meinen Freunden

[mellow nova]

just Zeit

[austere lily]

How would I say something like "That would be expensive in Toronto"

Es wäre in Toronto teuer?

Es würde in Toronto teuer sein?

[fair hawk]

you can say both

[austere lily]

Do they mean the exact same thing?

[fair hawk]

yes

[austere lily]

Danke!

I wish French made this much sense

[mortal hound]

what does "Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänskugelschreiber" mean ?

[hollow ether]

Danube Steamship Company Captains' pen

[mortal hound]

just why lol?

[hollow ether]

Why not

[mortal hound]

it's useless loll

[placid torrent]

"Abbau von Handelshemmnissen; Prinzip der Zollbindung als Grundprinzip des
GATT" und "Prinzip der Liberalisierung durch gemeinsame Verhandlungsrunden" gehört das zusammen?

[worthy sky]

can someone tell me when Ereignis and Veranstaltung can and can't be used interchangeably?

I looked up a forum where it had only a heated discussion and I ended up not really understanding

[swift bough]

I mean, they aren’t really the same concept tbh
They have completely different implications, but sure, both can be translated as „event“.

[final marlin]

Explain!!! Bitte

[swift bough]

A Veranstaltung is something which is planned. It is something which could be an Ereignis, but also maybe not, an Ereignis comes down to your own interpretation of it. A Veranstaltung refers to an organized event. Ereignis can mean event, yes, but it’s kinda like a cross between event and „occurrence“ or „happening“, sometimes even „incident“.

An Ereignis can be planned but only if it was a Veranstaltung first to begin with

It can also be something which was unplanned

A Veranstaltung is always planned on the contrary

For example at universities in Germany there is this thing called a Lernveranstaltung

Which is like a „learning session“, it is planned in advance.

Now, it could also be an Ereignis, but not everyone would say that it is one, it depends on what happens there. Of course it is inherently a „happening“ or „incident“ or „occurrence“ as well, but you wouldn’t necessarily call it that unless something happened there that possessed you to do so.

As you can see it’s a little bit hard to explain

Well now that I think about it, an Ereignis can also be planned as well. For example the birth of a child (which could also be unplanned and still be an Ereignis). This would only be Ereignis and not Veranstaltung.

But I guess the difference is also that Veranstaltung always has a specific date on which it is to occur, Ereignis does not always necessarily end up like that, regardless of if it is planned.

Like you can’t necessarily predict the exact day a baby is born, people are born early and late all of the time

[final marlin]

Than you very much

Danke schön

[worthy sky]

.... so a Veranstaltung can be a Ereignis but not vice versa.

perhaps occurance fits Ereignis more than Event

[swift bough]

If you read the definitions of each word and some of the example sentences here, it’s actually really helpful, and you can clearly see a difference in meaning (assuming you can understand a monolingual dictionary). https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Ereignis

https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Veranstaltung

[steel patrol]

So "Ereignis" is used in the same fashion that "in the event of a fire ... [do this, that, and the other]" in English is? Since nobody plans for fires to break out (hopefully).

[swift bough]

Well, for that specific sentence, you would rather say „im Falle“, not Ereignis

[steel patrol]

I remember that for the longest time I'd think it was the weirdest thing for people to say, and would always make me crack up. 😂

Ah,ok

[swift bough]

But after it’s over and you just Are talking about it, then yes, you could call it that I suppose

[steel patrol]

Achso, schön!

[swift bough]

Or you could use „falls“
„Falls ein Brand vorkommt,“

If you want to avoid genitive

[steel patrol]

Yeah, I meant to just compare it to the general usage of the word, rather than get a direct transition for that particular sentence, but like I said the other day, every little tidbit of an explanation is useful. :)

[swift bough]

It’s funny because I feel like no matter how precise I try to explain some of these things, someone always finds a way to put a hole in it or something

It’s hard to explain some things so that you have no way for misunderstandings

But even just talking about the fire, it’s not that it would be wrong to call it an Ereignis, but that almost doesn’t feel like the most appropriate word for it either, I guess it also depends how bad the fire was

Like I would probably choose a word like Katastrophe

Instead

[steel patrol]

I don't think there's ever any intention (by me or others) to go looking for things to "put a hole in", we just wanna make sure that we understand a concept as best as we can.

[swift bough]

Well follow up questions are good

I just am slowly realizing how hard it is to explain some things that are very nuance-like and not grammar related

Grammar is easy to explain

Nuances are trickier

I can’t even explain it always but

It helps that I have had real life experiences with the language

And I have heard for example words like Veranstaltung and Ereignis used by native speakers in context, whose differences registered in my brain at some point but I never really thought about it very much

Like for example the most common time I heard Veranstaltung was at my University in Germany. People always used this word to refer to organized events, usually organized clubs or meetings on our campus, so that’s where I learned that.

Or, obviously, also „events“

[steel patrol]

Such experiences are extremely useful for sure, and I know what you mean when you say that in many ways grammar is easier to explain than a (sometimes miniscule) nuance between two words, but please keep in mind that a lot of us in this server have not had a chance to have this crucial exposure to the language, and therefore we're just trying to navigate our way through it by ourselves, using online resources, and talking to helpful people who are willing to kindly take their time to explain these things. But, I mean, nobody's forcing you to do it and nothing's ever meant personally, so...

[swift bough]

I mean yes I know that, why do you seem passive-aggressive all of a sudden?

When I said putting holes in my explanations, that wasn’t an attack on anyone, it was just me saying it’s hard to explain it so that follow-up questions don’t even occur. Which isn’t a bad thing, just an observation.

[steel patrol]

I'm very much trying to be the opposite of that, I actually kinda sensed that tone from you, which is why I tried to make my messages sound extra nice.

[steel patrol]

Ok, I see.

[swift bough]

No I wasn’t trying to be passive-aggressive at all

Sorry if it came across like that

[steel patrol]

Fantastic! Then everything's good, yeah? 😄

[swift bough]

Sometimes you really can’t tell by text only how someone is feeling

Yes

[steel patrol]

That's also true.

[swift bough]

If you ever have follow-up questions, I highly encourage them and will gladly answer them to the best of my ability

[steel patrol]

Thank you. 🤗

[swift bough]

I guess I sort of meant with my statement that I wish that I myself were better at explaining

[nimble viper]

" Ich bin der Meinung, das Reisen nach Deutschland wäre bestimmt eine gute Idee. " < Anything wrong with saying it like this?

[frigid temple]

Yes you should say "Ich bin der Meinung, das Reisen nach Deutschland bestimmt eine gute Idee wäre."

[nimble viper]

Why?

[frigid temple]

Bc the sentence after the comma is a Nebensatz which means that the Verb/Prädikat ist an letzter Stelle. Bc Ich bin der Meinung ist der Hauptsatz

[nimble viper]

Does one assume some kind of additional 'dass' ?

I'm not familiar with this hauptsatz nebensatz talk.

Are you saying that a comma indicates some coordinating conjunction even if none is there?

Because you don't say, "Ich glaube, das gut ist"

[frigid temple]

Hauptsatz Main Clause and Nebensatz subordinate clause

[frigid temple]

Yeah there you would say "ich glaube das ist gut."

[nimble viper]

So what is the difference here?

I don't understand wherein the difference lies

[frigid temple]

I am not sure but i think that in the "ich bin der meinung, dass Satz it has to be dass with two s and in the sentence" ich glaube das ist gut" bezieht sich das auf was die Person gut findet. Also leitet es kein Nebensatz ein

[nimble viper]

So this is a matter of "Ich bin der Meinung," being necessarily followed by a dass

How about I just say " Ich denke das Reisen nach Deutschland wäre bestimmt eine gute Idee."

[frigid temple]

Yes

[nimble viper]

Okay, I get you 🙂

[frigid temple]

Ich denke, dass Reisen nach Deutschland bestimmt eine gute Idee wäre.

[nimble viper]

Don't you need the das to introduce Reisen?

[frigid temple]

Maybe idk tbh i am still making mistakes with the das even though i am german

[nimble viper]

Perhaps the dass in itself implies a "das das"

I'll go with what you've said as I think I can get away with it and generally it'd be better to coordinate the clause

[shrewd portal]

question because im trying to learn modal particles now

would "es wird wohl gut" make sense for something along the lines of like "itll probably be fine" ?

[coarse pagoda]

you would probably say "Ich denke, dass das Reisen nach Deutschland bestimmt eine gute Idee wäre."

[humble gale]

Hello, I am currently learning German. What do you mean, are you going to school today?

[placid torrent]

"Gehst du heute zur Schule?"

[fervent kernel]

how do I say 'Don't do this at home' in german?

[fervent kernel]

'Tue (Sg.)/Tut (Pl.) dies nicht Zuhause'

[cunning pecan]

Folglich wird viel Zeit verschwenden und haben die Arbeiter oder und die Arbeiter haben?

[wise pendant]

These are filler words, also called
Modalpartikel:

wohl - Vermutung

• Da hast du wohl recht. => I guess you're right.

ja - Bekannte Tatsache

• Wie du ja weißt, ist zu viel Zucker ungesund für dich. => As you already know, too much sugar is bad for you.

doch - Widerspruch

• Ich habe doch die ganz Zeit gewusst, dass ich Recht habe. => I always knew I was right.

mal/eben/ mal eben - Erhöhte Höflichkeit [in Fragen]

• Kannst du da mal eben für mich nachfragen? => Could you please inquire that for me?

mal - Ergreifung einer Gelegenheit [in Aussagen]

• Ich gehe mal die Hausaufgaben machen. => I'm gonna do my homework. (There is nothing else to do)

nämlich - Grund / Erklärung

• Die kaufen uns nämlich alles weg! => Because they are buying it all from us.

eigentlich - Unsichere Tatsache (Es wird ein "aber" danach erwartet) [in Aussagen]

• Sprachen lernen ist eigentlich ganz einfach. => It's actually quite easy to learn languages

eigentlich - Allgemeine höfliche Verstärkung (Signalisiert Interesse) [in Fragen]

• Was hast du eigentlich gestern gemacht? => Tell me what did you do yesterday?

eben/halt/eben halt - Sichere Tatsache

• Die Welt ist eben/halt unfair. => The world is unfair, you know.

denn - Scheinbar unbekannte Sache [nur in Fragen]
(Der Sprecher ist verwundert, das es nicht bekannt war)

• Willst du das denn gar nicht essen? => Don't you want to eat?
  (Part 2 follows ...)

denn - Generelle Verstärkung der Frage // Hartnäckiges Hinterfragen [nur in Fragen]

• Was willst du denn machen? => What are you going to do?

eh - Erwartung das etwas auf jeden Fall/ohne Frage passiert/so ist

• Das hab ich eh nie verstanden. => I never understood that anyways.

ja/aber - Überraschung

• Das freut mich aber, dass du wieder gesund bist. => I'm glad to hear, you are back up again.

bloß/ja/nur - Warnung (Es wird ein "sonst" erwartet.) [in Aussagen]

• Hör bloß damit auf! Lass das ja sein! => Stop that!

bloß/nur - Vorahnung von etwas Schlechtem [in Fragen]

• Was hat er bloß/nur getan? => What did he do (to deserve that)?

ruhig/schon - Ermunterung

• Kopf hoch, das wird schon wieder! => Chin high, it's gonna get better.

vielleicht - Verärgerung (selten)

• Das ist vielleicht eine Zumutung. => That's an imposition!

[shrewd portal]

ahhhh this is way better than the list i was using before, thank you!

so like, es soll wohl genügen is it should probably suffice

yeah ok this is way clearer tyvm

[wise pendant]

You're welcome 😁

[cobalt charm]

this is wrong right?

[placid path]

No, it's right ^^

[cobalt charm]

but an der Universität?

[mellow nova]

i mean it's clearly a multi-meaning sentence in English

depends what you mean

[ancient pulsar]

Can you tell me why you are here?
Can you tell me why you want it?
Your condition doesn't explain why we went there
When I translate these sentences I get warum for why, can I use weshalb instead (probably yes), and how normal would that sound?

[mellow nova]

warum weshalb and wieso all mean the same thing in modern german

they had small differences but no one cares anymore

idk if it's common to say weshalb though

[ancient pulsar]

wait, we can use wieso as well?

in the above context?

[celest pollen]

Sobald ich dein Film gesehen habe, weiß ich alle über Subordinating Conjunctions
✅ ❌
__If no correct immediately __

[half arch]

*alles

[wise pendant]

*deinen

[wise pendant]

(aren't they called this in German? why use english there?)
*Nebensatz einleitende Konjunktionen

[radiant pilot]

https://blogs.transparent.com/german/wieso-weshalb-warum-–-why/#:~:text=One theory is that the,and weshalb for the PURPOSE.

[whole karma]

What does "Personenkraftwagen" PKW in short mean ?

[whole karma]

Thanks

[whole portal]

Tbh I see exaclty 0 difference between the 4

Warum is probably most common tho

Yea I checked, the order is

1. Warum
2. Wieso
   ...
   ...
3. Weshalb
4. Weswegen

[mellow nova]

this is what google says

[whole portal]

What does the graph describe tho

[mellow nova]

popularity found in books/news/searches etc

[whole portal]

Because everything is going up

I mean I just searched in german discords

[mellow nova]

it's percentage based so idk what that means but ya it is all going up

https://www.quora.com/In-a-Google-Ngram-search-what-do-the-percentages-on-the-y-axis-measure

[fleet bridge]

How is “Wir fliegen über den See” inanimate?

[mellow nova]

what

you mean why is it accusative?

[fleet bridge]

Why it use darüber

[mellow nova]

as opposed to

[fleet bridge]

Isn't darüber used for something that not move?

[mellow nova]

you just don't call people 'da'

also lakes don't move

[fleet bridge]

So, I need to consider noun after preposition to see if it move or not to decide to use da- or not right?

[mellow nova]

i have no idea where you got this 'if it moves' thing

animate means being alive

did your teacher say 'if it moves'?

[fleet bridge]

I have no teacher

That's why I am confused

In my country, courses with teacher is a scam

[fleet bridge]

Lol

I confused

[upper ember]

Lebendig bezieht zich auf etwas, das ein Leben hat. Dafür benutzt man die echten Pronomen. Für den Rest benutzt man die sogenannten Pronominaladverbien, wie im von dir geteilten Bild gezeigt.

Ist "getrauen," das dem Wörterbuch nach "wagen" bedeutet, ein gehobenes Wort? Wird im Wörterbuch nicht angezeigt.

[trim trellis]

Hello can anyone confirm if this sentence is grammatically correct

Ich möchte eines Tages in Deutschland leben

I feel like it’s a lil off

[acoustic breach]

It seems correct

[trim trellis]

Klar, danke :)

[whole portal]

Okay I actually checked myself now lol
For me it's actually

1. Wieso (48,5 %)
2. Weshalb (26,5 %)
3. Warum (24,6 %)
4. Weswegen (0,4 %)

[thorn zodiac]

What does ‚jz‘ mean?

I keep seeing it used and I’m guessing it’s a shortened version of jetzt but idk

Ex: Was willst du denn jz“

[sly ferry]

it’s a shortened version of jetzt

[thorn zodiac]

Ty

[final marlin]

So viel Freizeit ,du hast.

[whole portal]

I just used the discord search function

[final marlin]

Discord hat einen Funktion wie das?

[whole portal]

Oben rechts?

Am Handy einmal nach links wischen

[final marlin]

Aber wie hast du die bestimmt Prozent für jeden bekommen?

[wise pendant]

Ich scheine Warum am meisten zu benutzen und die anderen Formen im Grunde gar nicht bis sehr selten

[narrow pier]

hi ausflug means trip, but how does it also include playing footbal, or hanging out like what are some examples of ausflug please?

[stable junco]

You usually don't use ausflug in combination with those activities. Ausflug implies that the trip was previously planned, involves a longer journey etc

[narrow pier]

its for an email it says welche ausflüge sie mit marianne machen wollen , and a girl on youtube said you can say whatever you want, like taking marianne to a sightsee, playing foot ball, usw

[narrow pier]

so ausflug can be any activity on a journey

[stable junco]

Ausflug is the act of journeying/ making a trip to somewhere. Say you want to see Big Ben in London. You make a trip there
"Wir machen einen Ausflug zum Big Ben"

[icy flax]

kann man "betrinken" im Sinne von "jdn betrunken machen" benutzen, selbst wenn der Agent nicht lebendig ist?

Ja, selbstverständlich warst du gestern nicht betrunken. Glühwein kann niemanden betrinken.

[stable junco]

Betrinken ist immer nur für sich selbst. Wenn jemand das selbst tut.
In dem Fall würde ich sagen "Ja, selbstverständlich warst du gestern nicht betrunken. Glühwein macht nicht betrunken"

[narrow pier]

thanks jojo

[icy flax]

ja, so waren all die Beispiele in DWDS. Danke für beide die Bestätigung und die Empfehlung, JoJo!

[whole portal]

Mathe?

[icy flax]

car + liability + security = thing u gotta pay for the car

[whole portal]

Kraftfahrzeug = motorized Vehicle
Haftpflichtversicherung = liability insurance

[thorn zodiac]

"Ich stehe auf ältere"

I saw this and put this into the translator because I didnt understand it and it says "I like older" // "Im into older"

I dont understand why its constructed like this? is it a phrase or is this expression just formed like that?

[mellow nova]

auf etw stehen is to be into something

auf etw (DATIVE) stehen is to stand on something

and it's Ältere

Ich stehe auf Ältere => I'm into older people
Ich stehe auf Älteren=> I'm standing on old people

does that help @thorn zodiac

[thorn zodiac]

ah I see, I completely forgot about this meaning, I thought it was dative and stand on only, makes sense thanks

[cobalt charm]

was meinen Sie mit "blabla" is this correct? what u mean by ...

[mellow nova]

yes that's the construction

[cobalt charm]

das riecht nach einer blume
das riecht wie eine blume
i think first is correct, what about 2nd?

[placid path]

I would say: "Das riecht wie nach einer Blume" xD
You use "nach" without an article like: "Es riecht nach Essen/Fleisch/Lakritz/Blumen".

But between your two sentences, the second one is more correct.

[cobalt charm]

we always use it without article?no exception?

i mean nach

[celest pollen]

Ich möchte mehr in Deutsch sprechen, weill ich wegen das schneller deutsch lernen kann
✅ ❌

[placid path]

Tbh, I dunno the grammar rule for that, it's for me just like it is 😅 But when I think about it, I cannot find any exception. But someone else knows it maybe better

[placid path]

"Ich möchte mehr auf Deutsch sprechen, weil ich dadurch schneller Deutsch/die Sprache lernen kann"

[mellow nova]

nach is more abstract

[south crow]

I think they mean "nach" in this context

Not nach as in nach der Schule

[mellow nova]

Es sieht aus nach Regen => it looks like it's going to rain

[placid path]

Yeah, if you use it with the verb "riechen" of course

If it's a preposition for time or place, then it can be

[hardy zinc]

It complains about a typo, but didn't I correctly replaced A: with Ae?

[wintry geode]

You can use Ae as Ä. "Ä" ist still prefered though

Some for oe ue

[hardy zinc]

Okay, so the complaint isn't fair, right?

[fervent kernel]

It is fair because you mostly use ä

it very rare to use ae

[frigid mist]

It isn’t

[hardy zinc]

I just didn't find a good way to type umlautes...

Maybe I will eventually

[fervent kernel]

oh because of your keyboard?

[hardy zinc]

Well it's not German if that's what you're asking

[fervent kernel]

yeah

makes sense now why you used ae

[tropic thistle]

Doesn't hitting the buttons visible in the screenshot under the textbox place the correct letter?

[fervent kernel]

it probably takes too much effort when you just want to get through your lessons

[hardy zinc]

yeah ^

[south crow]

Yeah I don't know if Duolingo accepts it

[hardy zinc]

maybe they're accessible with kb hotkeys though

Duolingo is good at hotkeys

[placid path]

In Switzerland they don't use ß so if you're not using it, that isn't a drama. But Umlaute are really important in German language

[south crow]

Just wanted to check this, since it seems like I lost this point on a technicality

[proven sphinx]

It's not really a technicality. "die Suppe" implies a specific kind of soup, but it wouldn't really make sense here.

It's literally "Today, we're eating the soup."

[south crow]

The other options didn't look good to me

I suppose I was thinking in my head of Soup as an uncountable noun

[proven sphinx]

Well, only "eine" and "die" are grammatically correct, but "die" just doesn't make much sense logically here.

[south crow]

"We're having soup" seems the more logical way to express it

[proven sphinx]

It can be, yeah.

Heute essen wir Suppe.

But you didn't have that choice here.

[south crow]

Yeah obviously

It wasn't immediately obvious to me that Supper meant type of soup in this case

Not really natural in English, but I suppose it sounds fine in German?

[proven sphinx]

"Heute essen wir eine Suppe" is perfectly correct in German, yes.

[south crow]

Good stuff

"Today we're having a soup" in English sounds like there was a selection of soups amongst other things and you chose to have an unspecified soup from that list

As opposed to another dish

Just a bit of an odd way to phrase it context-less

[proven sphinx]

German is much more prone to using an article than English in many cases.

[south crow]

I've definitely noticed, especially the definite

[proven sphinx]

That's especially the case for abstract nouns. Compare "love is blind" to "Die Liebe is blind" or "Hope dies last" to "Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt".

[south crow]

I know, don't worry

Oh yes

I've read a little literature on this, but I was wondering what a native speaker thought

With a generic subject, does it sound more or less natural to hear it with the definite article?

Like

Postboten sind immer spt
vs.
Die Postboten sind immer spt

[whole portal]

why lol

And without

[ancient viper]

if it's generic, i'd say the first one. if you're referring to a specific selection of postboten then the second one imo

[south crow]

Okay good stuff

I read a paper that said in German it can be seen that the second is used generically occasionally

[ancient viper]

it can be but it sounds less natural

glaub ich

aber dont quote me on that

[rough furnace]

Is it correct?

[nocturne gull]

You can use "ae" instead of ä. Ue is then ü and oe is ö.

[south crow]

Don't worry, I know

[nocturne gull]

Ah ok. 👍🏻

[shrewd portal]

Es ist kein Zeichen dass man etwas falsch gemacht hat, sondern etwas dass man darauf stolz sein soll.

is that correct? I feel as if I'm missing a word or particle or something but I can't quite figure out what

[whole portal]

Es ist kein Zeichen**,** dass man etwas falsch gemacht hat, sondern etwas**, worauf man** stolz sein sollte.

[icy flax]

why not "auf was" since it should be relative to "etwas"? Weren't worauf for questions?

[whole portal]

This is the one time I actually know the scientific word.

Pronominaladverbien

Or maybe linguistic term is the better choice of words.

"auf was" is bad style

replace it with worauf

The list of these is very long

an was     | woran
auf was    | worauf
aus was    | woraus
bei was    | wobei
durch was  | wodurch
für was    | wofür
gegen was  | wogegen
hinter was | wohinter
in was     | worin
mit was    | womit
nach was   | wonach
neben was  | woneben
über was   | worüber
um was     | worum
unter was  | worunter
von was    | wovon
vor was    | wovor
zu was     | wozu

[icy flax]

Do you also say "womit" for:
"Ich habe eine Gitarre, mit der ich jede Nacht in den Park spielen gehe"?

[whole portal]

I think you can use it here

But I wouldn't

[icy flax]

OMFG

got it!

[whole portal]

Just use it in all these was cases

[icy flax]

It's because of the "was"

yeah

sure

sorry.

but thank you for the thought though.

[shrewd portal]

ahhhhhhh worauf gotcha, tyty

but I got a good other bit correct let's go

[shrewd portal]

ok question if you don't mind because I've been thinking about it

why is it worauf?

[whole portal]

Well your whole last Nebensatz is not fitting for the situation

"something to be proud of" wäre das Englische Äquivalent

[mellow nova]

etwas takes 'was' as a relative pronoun

so etwas, "auf was" .. but like yoshi said, you use 'worauf' not 'auf was'

just bc that's how it is

(also dass is never a relative pronoun like you tried to use it as)

[shrewd portal]

wait did I use it as a relative pronoun?

oh I was thinking of it as just

something that

[whole portal]

Dein Satz heißt so viel wie "something [there's a cut here] , that one should be proud of."

[shrewd portal]

in the same way dass is normally used

ohhhh

[mellow nova]

that's not at all the way dass is normally used

that's a relative clause

[whole portal]

So I guess you tried to glue together those two but that's bot how german grammar works

[mellow nova]

there are many ways to translate the word 'that'

[shrewd portal]

aye aye, apologies

[icy flax]

I discussed this w them haha
all relative clauses would receive "auf der/die/das" but since you are not "calling back" the thing by an relative pronoun but by "was", you must "worauf"

[shrewd portal]

ahh

[icy flax]

blunt passing

[whole portal]

Er sagt, dass man darauf stolz sein soll.
He says that one should be proud of it.

[shrewd portal]

my problem is like

I thought of "das man darauf stolz sein soll" or something already but was worried it was

[whole portal]

Basically you can't use a dass without a comma is what I'm saying, it only introduces Nebensätze

[shrewd portal]

clunky or missing something or could be shortened

yeah idk why I used dass thinking on it now lol

[whole portal]

Well this might be the gist of it, not everything can be directly translated

[shrewd portal]

mhmm

[mellow nova]

it is directly translated though, relative pronouns are all 'that' in english, they correspond to the noun in german

'was' is the relative pronoun that translates to 'that'

[whole portal]

Well it's not always the same word is what I mean

[mellow nova]

ya

[whole portal]

Sorry should have specified

[shrewd portal]

so just to make sure I understand

it's worauf because it's auf was which just becomes that

[whole portal]

Yes

[shrewd portal]

ty

oh and it's was according to the same logic as like

"Da ist das Ort, wo er gestorben ist." or something

[whole portal]

No one is gonna rip your head off if you say auf was (okay I might), natives also like making that error and some grammatical circumstances make it difficult to actually use these but it's definitely a thing that makes you sound a lot better

[shrewd portal]

I'm planning to take uni courses abroad soon so I should be privy to this stuff, no worries

better to know it anyways

[swift bough]

Making the error makes you sound better?

[whole portal]

I'm bad with all these linguistic terms lol but I see 2 possible sentences here?
Das ist der Ort, ...
Da ist der Ort, ...

[swift bough]

Sorry didn’t read the whole convo

[whole portal]

I was referring to the correct way in the bigger picture of the conversation ofc ^^"

Which I specified like 50 messages above so yea xd

[swift bough]

It‘s grammatically a bit better to say „in dem“ instead of „wo“ but you will nonetheless hear people speak like that

[shrewd portal]

gotcha gotcha

did mean da though

[whole portal]

Here it's an dem tho

[shrewd portal]

oh is it?

huh wild

always more to learn

[whole portal]

Oh well actually depends

What do you mean by Ort

[shrewd portal]

I was imagining like

a guy pointing out to a field

[swift bough]

Well yeah I didn’t have any context so

[whole portal]

Ort as in place = an dem

Ort as in a small village = in dem

[swift bough]

A small village can be a place though can it not

[whole portal]

Yes but the word Ort can just mean a place, any place

Or maybe location is the better term

[swift bough]

Yeah I know it’s context dependent but I was just trying to make sure it’s clear

[whole portal]

Like you could say
72.600013,-34.817324 ist der Ort, an dem er gestorben ist.

[swift bough]

Right

It becomes in for cities and towns because that’s the usual preposition used for that ie in der Stadt, im Dorf, etc

[whole portal]

Yea

We found another word with 2 meanings for the same spelling and everything I guess

[swift bough]

In Bavaria they say aufm Dorf though, I wonder if that means they would ever say aufm Ort

[whole portal]

That would mean something different

[swift bough]

and what is that

[whole portal]

stiller Ort or stilles Örtchen means Toilet

[shrewd portal]

I love learning language

thank u both btw

wait now I'm having another question like

[whole portal]

They wouldn't say that tho, but if I had to interpret what they mean I'd think they mean they were taking a shit

[swift bough]

But given the context, you could probably interpret it differently since the usual preposition for them is auf?(at least for Dorf)

[shrewd portal]

when do you use an article to refer back to something compared to one of the question words

because they seem like

wait

actually an dem

[whole portal]

welcher vs der?

[shrewd portal]

I guess?

I don't know my own question let me try to like

have a better example

[whole portal]

Uh tbh idk myself I think you can choose whichever one you like

I think those were called Relativpronomen

[swift bough]

Yes they are

[whole portal]

But german is my worst subject so eh

[shrewd portal]

that sounds right

lol you seem to be doing a fine job

like

[swift bough]

But using welcher instead of der is weird isn’t it

[real thistle]

same here

[whole portal]

I had 4/15 points in an exam last year

[real thistle]

i joined as im in german 2 and feel so behind

[whole portal]

That's like 35 %

[real thistle]

in the national german exam i kind of failed

[whole portal]

(The scale isn't exactly metric)

[swift bough]

Not like he has to try that hard being native :>

[shrewd portal]

Er ist der Mann, mit dem ich vorher gesprochen habe.

like, it's only dem that could be used there, right?

see my point exactly

[swift bough]

Yes

[real thistle]

yes

[shrewd portal]

like now I'm trying to interrogate why my sentence earlier was worauf (auf was) instead of darauf or auf das

ik this is minutia but

confusing

[mellow nova]

like i told you

etwas uses was

[shrewd portal]

ohhh right

[mellow nova]

not das, not der, not den, not dem, not die

[shrewd portal]

you did say that shoot my bad

[mellow nova]

https://www.dartmouth.edu/~deutsch/Grammatik/WordOrder/relatives.html

[whole portal]

My exam after grade 10 that granted me a basic school degree looked like this:
Maths: 1 (95 %)
English: 2 (80-95 %)
German: 4 (40-60 %)

[mellow nova]

scroll to the bottom (or preferably read the whole thing)

[whole portal]

Also I definitely messed up my test about literature today

But seriously how the fuck is Wilhelm Busch Realist

Tbh I haven't read anything besides max & moritz but I'm getting carried away

[shrewd portal]

I am learning!

I feel like I understand this way better now

thank u all

[mellow nova]

read every single thing on that dartmouth website

probably the single best english based german resource in existence

besides maybe hammer

[whole portal]

To be fair my style, spelling, grammar etc. is completely on point but I just hate doing interpretations and really anything that requires you to write a bunch

[shrewd portal]

I should make an effort to do it more often

overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer

and I made the mistake of thinking I knew Enough

[swift bough]

School is like 90% just putting in effort. If you put in effort, it’s really hard to fail.

For me it was anyway

[whole portal]

And the years when we talked about Relativpronomen and that shit I was busy playing fortnite with the bros I guess

[swift bough]

I didn’t even do anything special

Still got by diploma

[whole portal]

Fuck putting in effort

I only have issues in like history, german and ethics class

And even those I'm not gonna fail

[swift bough]

You obviously put in more effort in math and English

[whole portal]

Tbh no clue how you can really fail school

[mellow nova]

this made me feel old

[swift bough]

By not putting in effort

[whole portal]

Wdym I didn't do shit

[swift bough]

ok lol

You had to have done something to earn your grades…

[whole portal]

Well when I realise how long ago that was I also feel kinda old so yea

[whole portal]

Well sure, be present in school and pay attention

[mellow nova]

fortnite didn't exist when iw as in school

[whole portal]

But I don't learn or do homework or sth like that

We don't get homework anymore anyways

[swift bough]

Here where I grew up, if you don’t do your homework, you will fail and not graduate

This is why I said you just have to turn your shit in

You don’t even have to do it that well

Just as long as you do it

[whole portal]

You just have to put in enough effort to reach your goals and save the rest of your energy for the fun, that's what my aunt said

I do turn my shit in, what else should I do, it's a test

[swift bough]

But that shit also includes homework which you said you didn’t do xD

[whole portal]

Graded homework?

[swift bough]

I wasn’t only talking about tests

Well yeah

[whole portal]

We rarely had that

But assignments are different that regular homework

[swift bough]

In school ALL of my homework was graded

[whole portal]

Bruh tf

[swift bough]

This is why I said effort is important

But our schools are different obviously

[whole portal]

Do your teachers have nothing better to do

[mellow nova]

american teachers have to work like 10h days

depending on the subject

[swift bough]

Yeah and some of it is unpaid

[mellow nova]

most of it is unpaid since they make salary

[swift bough]

This is one reason why I decided against being a teacher

[mellow nova]

a full time chikfila employee in my state makes like 6k more per year than a teacher

xd

[whole portal]

I'll probably get away in german and history with like 7 points and then the rest is like 12 on average and really it doesn't even really matter because the subject I wanna study doesn't require a certain grade (altho even if it did I'd pass easily)

[swift bough]

Have you seen you can get paid 20 bucks an hour to work overnight at Walmart lmao

[whole portal]

That reminds me of something

[mellow nova]

doesn't surprise me

[whole portal]

dude my sister got a job at the fucking customer service in berlin and she was paid the same amount as my mom in poland with 20 years of expierience and a phd in medicine

💀

[mellow nova]

at least that's because of severely different economies 😩 still sad though

[whole portal]

Yea

[mellow nova]

well not sad that the berlin person is being paid fairly but sad for poland

[whole portal]

Yea ofc

[hardy zinc]

Hi ; I've seen "Gibt es noch [...]" used as "are there more ...", right? Is it some kind of idiom?

So "gebt es" is close to "are there"/"there are"?

E. g. "In unserem Haus gibt es viele gut Menschen" is "In our house there are many good people"?

Is "Entschuldiging, gibt es eine Toilette in diesem Wohnung?" correct?

[placid path]

"[...] viele gute Menschen"

[hardy zinc]

Thanks

[shut briar]

I don't get why there is ||vor|| here.

[icy flax]

I would read it as a "for 320". The normal prepositions would be "gegen" and "für".

[wise pendant]

Seems very badly machine translated

[narrow pier]

Okay , es sind eben kinder means they are just children but es means it and its singular so how es sind = they are

Is this used like can you use it in tests

[boreal night]

Es muss heißen: "Entschuldigung, gibt es eine Toilette in dieser Wohnung?" (1. im Deutschen gibt es ursprünglich nur die Endung "-ung", "-ing" ist eher Englisch; 2. Wohnung ist weiblich)

[radiant pilot]

can someone actually tell me what does "Nichts wie weg" actually mean?

https://dict.leo.org/german-english/nichts wie weg

i found that, but it doesn't actually make sense in the context it was used in

[wise pendant]

it could mean something being completely gone or when said alone: "Let's get out of here"

[radiant pilot]

thank you!

[radiant pilot]

is it necessary to use "doch, nur, bloß" with K2 to express regret about sthg, or is K2 sufficient?

[narrow pier]

Hi guys how is the zur Prüfung and zum Jubiläum used

[radiant pilot]

just by the way you write in arabic, i can tell you're from the middle east, lol

[noble yacht]

Wir gratulieren zur Prüfung. / Wir gratulieren zum Jubiläum ^^

[shut briar]

I noticed the number kept decreasing as my coins went up. So that can't be it

[shut briar]

That makes sense, they wouldn't hire someone for every language

[narrow pier]

I am kurdish but in iraq, but still don't know what you mean cause i don't speak that much arabic

[narrow pier]

Oh thanks so that means we congratulate you on the test

Ok

And on the anniversary

[fervent kernel]

So you never leave the kurdish region?

[narrow pier]

Well I am kurd

We should have our own country but all the world says fuq you

What is the meaning of that sein pleasee??

I am very confused

🙂

[fervent kernel]

"Because they want to be together more often"

@narrow pier

[narrow pier]

Oh the (be)

Thank youuu

[shrewd portal]

is there a good German equivalent for "would it kill you to...?"

in English it means something along the lines of

being annoyed that someone hasn't done a minor thing

under the expectation that it could have and should have been done

[stable junco]

"Es würde dich nicht umbringen, wenn du..."
Which is quite the literal translation but the negative form

Or "Du würdest schon nicht sterben, wenn du..." ( You won't die if you )

There are many possiblities

[shrewd portal]

ahhhhh so it is pretty close gotcha

looking it up on google gave me would it kill you but like, in the literal sense of asking about mortality with no way to check of it was idiomatic or emphatic or what have you

so thank you very much

[boreal night]

Man kann es auch wirklich direkt übersetzen: "Würde es dich umbringen, wenn du..."

[shrewd portal]

ah, war bloß nicht sicher ob es Sinn ergeben würde

[whole portal]

There's also "Es wird dich schon nicht umbringen" which is along the lines of "it's not gonna kill you"

[whole portal]

But I don't think there's anything close to that that has to do with killing

You could use something like "Ist es so schwer für dich, ..."

[boreal night]

If you are disappointed to the extent of rage (because it has already been some days), I would rather say "would it kill you", too.

[shrewd portal]

gotcha

point being it's similar enough to English that I can say something in the ballpark and be understood

[icy flax]

@whole portal @boreal night
Seid ihr noch da? Wie wahrscheinlich ist es, dass ihr zwoo statt zwei beim Handy sagt? || Einmal sagten mir Leute, zwoo wird bei Angaben von Telefonnumern ausgesprochen, um von drei einen deutlicheren Unterschied zu machen.||

[boreal night]

Das mit der Unterscheidung ist richtig. Beim Buchstabieren nimmt man die Buchstabier-Alphabete und bei den Zahlen kann man 2 von 3 besser unterscheiden, wenn man zwoo sagt.

Das machen aber eher ältere Leute, ich in mir nicht sicher, wie verbreitet das in jüngeren Generationen ist. Das kommt meines Wissens aus der alten (kaiserlichen) Amtssprache.

[fleet bridge]

If I want to put nicht into these 2 sentences
“Wir sind in der Stadt gewesen”
“Er hat es gemocht”
Where should I put it in?

[mellow nova]

faq negation

[stoic mauve]

Negation

Negations or negative sentences in German are formed with either kein or nicht.

You use kein if you want to negate nouns with an indefinite article or without an article, for example:
(1) Ich besitze kein Auto. (I don't own a car.)
(2) Ich habe keinen Hunger. (I'm not hungry.)

‼ kein is always placed right before the noun you want to negate. Also note that you need to decline kein.

If you want to negate anything else you use nicht, for example:
(3) Ich schlafe nicht. (I don't sleep.) [verb]
(4) Ich habe gestern nicht geduscht. (I didn't shower yesterday.) [verb]
(5) Ich gehe nicht gerne schwimmen. (I don't like to go swimming.) [adverb]
(6) Es ist nicht heiß. (It's not hot.) [adjective]
(7) Ich habe nicht dich, sondern ihn gerufen. (I didn't call you, but him.) [pronoun]
(8) Das ist nicht Peters Fahrrad, sondern meins. (This isn't Peters bicycle, but mine.) [proper noun]
(9) Der Zug kommt nicht um 18 Uhr an. (The train doesn't arrive at 6pm.) [preposition]
(10) Ich habe nicht das Essen bezahlt, sondern die Getränke. (I didn't pay for the food, but for the drinks.) [definite article]

‼ Note that nicht almost always comes before the word it negates, unless you want to negate a verb.
If that's the case, it depends on the tense of the verb and on whether there is an auxiliary verb or not. nicht is placed right after the verb if the verb is in present or past tense. For compound tenses or when the sentence has an auxiliary it is placed before the verb.

🌟 Confused by the terminology? See >ex Grammar terms

[mellow nova]

read this then try

[fleet bridge]

I see

Thx

[icy flax]

Dieser Freund aus Ukraine ist aus einer Stadt die gerade umstellt umgekesselt wird

Ich schaffe nicht diese Fettgeschriebenen zu verstehen

[mellow nova]

maybe they mean eingekesselt

[icy flax]

Delli du genie! Danke dir, Alter!

[mellow nova]

[narrow pier]

Hi leute , whats the differences between these pairs (Ansagen - Durchsagen) ,,,. ( Der Raum , das Zimmer

[long whale]

1st: pretty much synonymous, except ansagen/die Ansage can be used for any kind of announcing, while durchsagen/die Durchsage is only for announcements/announcing via speakers. das Zimmer is specifically for living/sleeping in (i.e. neither kitchen, nor bathroom, nor storage room). der Raum basically means "space enclosed by walls", i.e. can be used for any kind of room, whatever its purpose. :)

[narrow pier]

that was very specific thank you, and german is fascinating

and what about verkehrsmeldungen, is this an announcment who traffic officers do, or is it done through speakers

[final marlin]

Hallo. Du bist zurück. Ich vermisse dich sehr.

[long whale]

Thank you. But since you aren't missing me anymore, now that I'm back, you'd need to put that in Perfekt. ;)

[narrow pier]

it turns to ich habe dich vermisst

grapeee

[prisma vigil]

Hallo, darf ich fragen ob dieser satz verständlich und natürlich ist? : Wenn es bis Freitag keine Antwort gibt, denke ich, es erklärt sich, dass du es mehr willst.

[long whale]

No. What were you trying to say?

[prisma vigil]

Eine person im privaten Vertragverhältnis..?

i asked answer but she didnt. And wanted to say if there is no answer then i think we dont work together.

[long whale]

How about "Bitte antworte mir bis Freitag. Sonst verstehe ich es so, dass du es nicht mehr willst." (Don't drop the negation, the sentence doesn't make sense without it.)

[prisma vigil]

Oh thank you i wanted to wirte in original sentence like "Keine zusammenarbeit"

[final marlin]

Thank you for asking this. I thought I am the only one not able to understand.

[mystic oxide]

Was bedeutet " Teilzeitarbeit" ???

[next jasper]

doing a part time job (noun)

[wise pendant]

Part time work/job

Next time consider using Translation Services or a dictionary. Pons, Dict.cc, Deepl, Leo, Duden, Dwds just to name a few

[next jasper]

If you work for example monday to friday from 8 to 12, that counts as “Teilzeitarbeit”

[radiant pilot]

"Wer seine künstlerische Begabung zum Beruf machen will, ist an einer der rund 50 staatlich anerkannten Filmhochschulen in Deutschland genau richtig"

can someone point out to me the subject in the second part of the sentence?

please

is it "an einer der rund 50 staatlich anerkannten Filmhochschulen in Deutschland"?

[delicate tiger]

"Wer seine künstlerische Begabung zum Beruf machen will"

[radiant pilot]

isn't that another sentence

?

[delicate tiger]

replace the whole construction with "Peter" or any other name and it still works

[radiant pilot]

Peter ist an einer der rund 50 staatlich anerkannten Filmhochschulen in Deutschland genau richtig

right?

[wise pendant]

He was just plainly giving you your answer right there. Just saying

[radiant pilot]

[wise pendant]

It's the same as
"The one who does this" being the subject of this following sentence:
"The one who does this is nice."

[radiant pilot]

im kinda stupid, sorry

[wise pendant]

Wer in that case can be translated with "the one who"

[radiant pilot]

yeah, took me some mental gym to realize that

thanks buddy

[wise pendant]

Yw

[hardy zinc]

What's the diff between "Keiner" and "Niemand"?

E. g. "Niemand kann mir helfen" but "Keiner trinkt", but can I interchange them?

[whole portal]

Niemand hat mir auf den Kopf gespuckt und Keiner hat's gesehen.

There's just no difference tbh

[ornate shuttle]

Die unternehmensleitung informiert: die Gesundheit und Zufriedenheit von unseren Mitarbeitern stehen an erster Stelle

Was bedeutet stehen hier??

[hardy zinc]

Thanks ; wb these two:

Diese Opas sind noch gar nicht alt

vs

Diese Opas sind ueberhaupt nicht alt

?

[swift bough]

„an erster Stelle stehen“ = to rank first, to be the first priority

[hollow robin]

Benutzt man "liegen in" in der Alltagssprache?

z.b. "Ich verstehe nicht, worin der Unterschied liegt."

[long whale]

Yes.

[queen oyster]

When do u use sei and seinen for imperative?

[swift bough]

only sei is a verb. seinen is a declined pronoun.

because sein can mean both "to be" and "his"

(as well as "its")

so for imperative you use sei

[hardy zinc]

^ 😅

Also, warum sagen wir

Morgen fahren wir nach München

aber nicht

Morgen wir fahren nach München

?

[potent cloud]

In a statement in german, the main verb(fahren) has to be in the 2nd position of the sentence.

[hardy zinc]

Oh I see

[potent cloud]

in questions for example you can see it in the first (z.B Fahren wir morgen nach München?)

[queen oyster]

ahh ic

thanks

[acoustic breach]

Btw, "also (german)" means "so (english)" , like deshalb, deswegen

It doesnt mean the "also (english)"

[swift bough]

but I think it still works perfectly fine the way that they used it

even if they mistook it for the english word

[prisma vigil]

hi there, can i say like that when i see a doctor? Der Auslöser (meines Rückenschmerzes) war Wassertragen...?

[long whale]

Sure. It's perfectly understandable. :)

[prisma vigil]

thanks😄

[hardy zinc]

oh -_-

[inland sphinx]

Anyone here have experience doing the driving exam in Germany? I'm trying to figure out a situation. Why is it that car C can't go when car A goes? https://routetogermany.github.io/img/signs/other-images/right before left 2.svg

[unique dune]

rechts vor links

if there r no signs indicating that u have the right of way u have to let the car to the right pass

meaning car C has to let car B pass and car B has to let car A pass

[inland sphinx]

Even though C can safely pass with A?

[unique dune]

it cannot because car B has the right of way

they would crash

[inland sphinx]

My logic is that if B has to wait for A, they might as well have to wait for C. There's no difference for B.

[unique dune]

but thats not how traffic works

they have to adhere to the rules no matter if they could logically do something else

[inland sphinx]

ok, fair enough

[unique dune]

i could also run a red light if theres no one near but it would still be illegal

[ruby ferry]

how would you translate 'Wir sind da, aber sowas von' ? I am struggling to make it sound natural in english (it is for a graded translation task for context)

[rough furnace]

Did I answer the questions right?

[whole portal]

"We're here, absolutely." maybe?

[ruby ferry]

i think that makes sense with the context - its a quote from a speech Luisa Neubauer gave at a climate strike haha, thank you

[fervent kernel]

we're there, you can say that again
we're there, damn right
we're there, you bet
we're there, absolutely/totally

[celest pollen]

Ich mag lieber Strandurlaub, weill ich **__kann **( i know this is mistake, but idk. On what i can this change) am Strand mit Bierchen gelegen habe
❌ ✅

[whole portal]

, weil ich mit einem Bierchen am Strand liegen kann.

[celest pollen]

never mind ist prasens tense
I thought my satze its a past

[rough furnace]

Thank you for the feedback bro 👍

[primal spire]

Wenn ich "Das Unternehmen wird von uns ___ geführt" schreibe und wir 4 Leute sind, schreibe ich dann Vier oder Vieren? (An der Stelle mit den Unterstrichen)

[long whale]

2nd :)

[fervent kernel]

I forgor what is ich in Deutsche

[primal spire]

Danke

[young salmon]

ich means "i"

[fervent kernel]

Oh ok danke

[median heron]

I'm no authority on what belongs where, but if you send it, I'll send feedback.

[near folio]

#corrections wäre dafür gut geeignet

[agile stream]

hallo, kant jemand mir helfen ? ich habe nicht verstanden was der man sagt (where i put ** )

Der Navigator: Nach 600 Meter bitte rechts abbiegen.
Der Mann : 600 Meter? Ah das ist *** von der Brücke.
Die Frau : Jetzt schon nach rechts? meinst du ? Nein, das ist falsch!
Der Mann : Was? Warum denn ?
Navigator: Nach 400 Meter bitte rechts abbiegen
Die Frau :Hier auf meinem plan, steht das ganz anders.
Der Mann : Ganz anders ? *****
Navigator: nach 200 bitte rechts abbiegen
Die Frau :Nein, das kann einfach nicht sein, hier geht es noch ein oder zwei Kilometer geradeaus weiter
Der Mann : Ja, was jetzt?
Navigator: Jetzt, bitte rechts abbiegen
Die Frau :Nein ! nein ! nicht abbiegen, fahr geradeaus weiter
Der Mann : Und wenden plan falsch ist ? horst du ? was machen wir dann ?
Navigator: Bitte wenden Sie !
Die Frau :So! schloss ! mein plan ist nicht falsch !

[wise pendant]

"Ach, das ist da unten vor der Brücke"
"Ganz anders? Ja, wie denn? Was steht denn da?"

"Und wenn dein Plan falsch ist?"
"So Schluss! Mein Plan ist nicht falsch"

[agile stream]

Vielen dank ^^

[wise pendant]

Der Rest war richtig! Du müsstest nur auf öäü und Großschreibung achten

[fervent kernel]

es tut mir leid - tut mir leid = i am sorry

in ordnung - ordnung - alles klar - schon gut = all right

What are the differences ?

[young salmon]

es tut mir leid = bound to something tut mir leid = general and not bound to anything

[young salmon]

in ordnung = okay, ordnung = order, alles klar = alright / everything good , schon gut = it's okay

hope this helps

[fervent kernel]

danke schön

[young salmon]

bitte schön

[drowsy citrus]

is the verb verbunden go with ist ??? I thoght it was hat verbunden !! can someone explain for me pls ?

[acoustic breach]

The verbunden here is an Adjektiv
(can all be seen as a zustandpassive thing but it's a B2 topic. Just take it as an Adjektiv)

[versed wasp]

what is the difference ??
1- das glaubst du ihr?
2- glaubst du ihr?

[ornate shuttle]

1)Ich wäre gern Arzt

2)Wäre ich bloß Arzt gewesen, dann wäre mein leben besser

3)Ich würde gern ein Auto besitzen

4)Hätte ich nur ihm das ausgerichtet.

5)Ich hätte gern ein Auto.

Sind die alle Sätze korrekt??

DANKE IM VORAUS

[whole portal]

You forgot the . on 3 of them

[long whale]

2 is more of a general question, perhaps about a whole story, while 1 refers to some specific fact. :)

[long whale]

Yes, they're correct, grammar-wise. But unless your life is pretty much over, you'd say "Wäre ich nur Arzt geworden" (If only I'd become a doctor) :)

[placid path]

2. What Susana says. Also "leben" has to be capitalized so: Leben
3. You forgot the point.
4. Sentence position is kinda weird. I would say: "Hätte ich ihm das nur ausgerichtet."

[fervent kernel]

in germany we say

[night dagger]

manche haben kein Gewissen und versuchen nicht einmal es zu verbergen

[fervent kernel]

"versuchen es nicht einmal zu verbergen" oder "versuchen nicht einmal es zu verbergen"?

wo gehört das "es" hin?

oder würde beides passen?

[night dagger]

beides passt

[fervent kernel]

aso, danke

[rough forge]

hi guys do schwierig also mean tricky ?

[night dagger]

de.pons.com :)

[rough forge]

I see cuz I saw the subtitles tricky translated into schwierig

[rough forge]

thanks

[ornate shuttle]

Ich lerne Deutsch, Seit ich nach Deutschland gekommen bin.

Ich lerne Deutsch, seitdem ich nach Deutschland gekommen bin.

Ich bin seit zwei Jahren nach Deutschland gekommen.Seitdem lerne ich Deutsch.

Ich bin seit 2 Jahren nach Deutschland gekommen.Seither lerne ich Deutsch.

Seitdem ich nach Deutschland gekommen bin, lerne ich Deutsch

Ich bin seit 2 Jahren nach Deutschland gekommen. Ich lerne seither/seitdem Deutsch.

Sind die alle Sätze korrekt????

[long whale]

Ich bin vor zwei Jahren nach D. gekommen. Except for this, which you got wrong twice, everything's correct, yes. :)

*Sind die alle [diese] Sätze korrekt?

[ornate shuttle]

recht herzlichen Dank (^^)
@long whale

[thorn zodiac]

"Ich möchte wirklich in diesem Beruf tätig sein"

Could someone explain what "tätig" would roughly translate to? The translator says employed, active, busy etc. but idk which one is more accurate in this case

[fallow ledge]

Active is probably best

[thorn zodiac]

danke

[fallow ledge]

You can remember it as a block, in einem Beruf tätig sein, means to work in that profession

Tätig is related to tun, so its has to do with doing stuff

[versed wasp]

what is the difference between dazugehören and gehören ??

[long whale]

"dazugehören" means to belong to a group of people or a set (of china, cutlery, etc.), to be part of something. "gehören" is just to belong in the sense of "to own". :)

[frank comet]

Can anyone check if this is correct?

Ich hoffe, dass du ist gut in deustchland. Ich bin in australien Schule zu machen. In australien, schule ist gut fur alle personen weil viele Wege in schule hat. Ich finde menschen kann wählen deine Karriereoption. In australien, Ich habe deustch lerne weil ich finde eine andere sprache ist gut fur mich. Ich finde deusch ist nicht schwerlich als Japansich weil meine schule kann deustch oderr japansich sprache zu lernen. In meine deustch klasse, ich lerne fruendschaft mit andere. Freundschaft ist sehr gut weil ich viele gute fruend hat. In meine Klasse, alle personen ist gut mit alle. Wir lernen fruendschaft kann zwischen tieren und personen. Eine gute fruend muss gehen in beide Richtungen und ihr unterstützen Sie in guten und schlechten Zeiten .Man eine Konflikt hat, es ist mühelos wenn gute fruende hat. Ich brauche fruendschaft ist wichtig fur mich weil wenn ich probleme hat, ich kann sprichst mit dich. Meine fruende hilf mir mit meinen hausafgaben und ich helfe dir wenn sie hat eine problem. Freunde sind jemand, dem ich mich anvertrauen und ihnen meine Geheimnisse anvertrauen kann. Eine gute fruend sind nett, hilfreich, lustig und Sie vertrauen können. Freundschaft mit andere land ist sehr gut weil wenn Sie treffen sich, es lohnt sich mehr . Ich denke, dass deine fruend kann famile werden. Freunde fur lang zeit, ich finde du ist sehr wichtig fast meine Familie.

[charred harbor]

Your capitalisation is a bit strange to me because some nouns you're capitalising and others you aren't

There's also quite a few Umlaute missing

[frank comet]

Thanks

[hushed spade]

Quite a few spelling mistakes as well

[charred harbor]

Yeah like

deustchland

[frank comet]

can you please give examples?

[charred harbor]

fruendschaft

[hushed spade]

oderr, fruend, deustch...

[charred harbor]

hausafgaben

[frank comet]

how do i spell deustchland?

[hushed spade]

Deutschland

[charred harbor]

The s comes after the t

[long whale]

You could write the text in English and then run it through deepl.com - your mistakes will show up when you compare them. :)

[frank comet]

is this the right way?

[charred harbor]

No

[hushed spade]

-> Freundschaft

[frank comet]

which words please

[charred harbor]

ist gut fur mich
The fur should be für

[frank comet]

Thanks

[frank comet]

german to english works?

[frank comet]

sorry to bother you but is there more?

Overall, how does it look for you?

[long whale]

Well, you could try that, too. 🤔 You might be a bit surprised, though, at least at some of the things...

[long whale]

Frankly? As if you'd taken an English text and simply changed the words to German. Unfortunately, that's not the way language learning works. :)

[hushed spade]

Just translate it to English, and then back again

[frank comet]

I didnt i wrote the whole thing out

[frank comet]

ok

[charred harbor]

Meine fruende hilf mir mit meinen hausafgaben und ich helfe dir wenn sie hat eine problem
Meine Freunde helfen mir bei meinen Hausaufgaben und ich (helfe) ihnen, wenn sie Probleme/ein Problem haben.

[hushed spade]

It won't be perfect ofc, but it should get rid of most/all grammar/spelling mistakes

[frank comet]

is ihnen better than du?

[charred harbor]

You mean "dir"?

[frank comet]

yes sorry

[charred harbor]

Ihnen means "they", which refers to all of your Freunde collectively
Dir means "you", and it refers to only one person

[long whale]

Your original sentence would translate back to something like "My freinds helps me with my homwork and I help you when she has an problem" :)

[charred harbor]

a problem*

But yeah

[hushed spade]

It's not a matter of which is better, it's a matter of which is correct... "du" would be grammatically wrong

[long whale]

I tried to put in the grammar/spelling mistakes, see? :)

[charred harbor]

OHHHH haha

Sorry, I'm silly

Nice

Yeah, you wouldn't say "eine Problem" because it's das Problem

[frank comet]

Freunde fur lang zeit, finde ich sie ist sehr wichtig fast meine Familie.

for this one, why finde ich not ich finde?

[long whale]

I warmly recommend simplifying your sentence. :)

[hushed spade]

Maybe "Gute Freunde finde ich fast so wichtig wie meine Familie" would fit better

[frank comet]

why finde ich?

not ich finde

[hushed spade]

Ich finde gute Freunde fast genauso wichtig wie meine Familie

works as well

I can't tell you exactly how the grammar behind it works

my grammar is very weak, sry

[frank comet]

all good thanks for help everyone

genauso meaning?

[hushed spade]

In this case "equally"

[charred harbor]

My honest advice... this seems like a pretty complex text, and given the spelling and grammatical errors it seems like overdoing it. I think it would be better to not write passages this long until you get more confident with spelling, grammar and German sentence structure. If you approach your learning like that you can slowly build up your sentence library of things you can say correctly.

What I mean is it's probably better to start in the shallow end and get confident in learning how to swim, as opposed to just jumping into the deep end like this and hoping you don't drown.

[hushed spade]

or "just as"

[frank comet]

it is a task for my german high school class

[frank comet]

thanks

[ornate shuttle]

Im Jahr 2018 habe ich mein Studium abgeschlossen. Vorher/davor habe ich das Abitur gemacht. Nachher habe ich zwei Jahre als Kellner gearbeitet.

Bevor ich in die Schule gehe, frühstücke ich gut.

Nachdem ich nach Deutschland gekommen war, besuchte ich einen Deutschkurs.

Sind alle diese Sätze korrekt???

[hushed spade]

Davor, Danach, bin

(bevor) ist richtig

Den letzten Satz würde ich aber ein wenig umformulieren; Nachdem ich nach Deutschland gekommen bin, habe ich einen Deutschkurs besucht

[ornate shuttle]

Dankeschön. :-)

[hushed spade]

Kein Problem, immer wieder gern. Btw es wird "Danke schön" geschrieben

[ornate shuttle]

Hier meinen Sie, dass ich kann Danach anstatt von Nachher stellen????

[hushed spade]

Genau

[ornate shuttle]

👍👍👍 Danke schön ;)

[fair violet]

"Danach" is more used in the context of "after that", while "nachher" is "later", as in "Nachher werde ich ins Kino gehen." (Later I will go to the cinema.)
So yeah, danach is better in this sentence ^^

[upper ember]

Die berühmte V2-Regel... 🙈

[upper ember]

...dass ich danach statt nachher stellen kann? 😊

[upper ember]

Ich glaube, du meinst: danach = thereafter, nachher = afterwards 😬

[undone verge]

thereafter 😂

[fair violet]

Ich meine was ich gesagt habe ^^ ich wollte betonen, dass "nachher" nicht immer in dem gleichen Kontext wie "danach" benutzt werden kann.
Danach: etwas passiert, und danach passiert etwas anderes. Ich ging zur Schule und danach nach Hause.
Nachher: später passiert etwas, aber es folgt nicht auf ein anderes Ereignis. Nachher gehe ich zum Strand.
Danach gehe ich zum Strand klingt komisch wenn vorher kein anderes Ereignis genannt wurde.
Ich ging zur Schule und nachher nach Hause klingt auch nicht richtig, weil sich das "nachher" nicht auf "ich ging zur Schule" bezieht, sondern einfach nur sagt "ich gehe später nach Hause." Und da der Satz in der Vergangenheit ist, passt das da nicht wirklich rein

Ist manchmal schwer die richtigen englischen Übersetzungen zu finden, weil die in anderen Kontexten auch anders benutzt werden können, aber das wollte ich nur damit ausdrücken

[wise pendant]

Btw: danach comes from Old High German daranāh. If there would still be a living english cognate it would be therenigh (close to it)

[toxic iron]

Wisst jemand ob es gibt irgendwo Artikeln mit begleitende Audios (jemand liest die Artikeln oder Text-to-Speech)

Entweder Nachrichten oder irgendwas anderes

Ah super danke!

[icy flax]

Hi! Hab 4 Fragen an euch :3

1. Wie ist die Sprache in diesem Text, findet ihr es alt/neu, gehoben/einfach?
2. Diese zwei Wörter kommen mir als Modalpartikeln vor, und ich verstehe ihre Funktion hier nicht ganz. Könntet ihr ihre Bedeutung erklären?
3. Wäre es zu komisch einfach "ihre" zu schreiben?
4. Beide in Büchern und Liedern finde ich "wüsste". Gehört es der Alltagssprache?

Seit fast 15 Jahren setzte sich die alte Berthe **nun schon (2) ** jeden Tag vor ihre Tür. Die Bewohner von Bescos wunderte dies nicht, denn alte Menschen träumen nun einmal von der Vergangenheit und ihrer Jugend, blicken versunken auf eine Welt, die nicht mehr die ihre (3) ist, und suchen nach einem Vorwand, um mit ihren Nachbarn ins Gespräch zu kommen.
Berthe Hatte jedoch einen Grund, dort zu sitzen. Ihr Warten fand an jenem Morgen ein Ende, als sie den Fremden den steilen Hang heraufkommen und sich langsam zum einzigen Hotel des Ortes begeben sah. Er war nicht wie sie ihn sich immer vorgestellt hatte. Seine Kleider waren schäbig, sein Haar etwas länger, als man er für gewöhnlich trug, und er war unrasiert. Sein Begleiter aber fehlte nicht: der Dämon.

Mein Mann hat recht<, sagte sich Berthe. >Hätte ich nicht hier gesessen, **wüßte (4) ** niemand etwas davon.<
Sie schätzte ihn auf etwa vierzig oder fünfzig Jahre, war sich allerdings nicht ganz sicher. >Ein junger Mann<, befand sie, wie alte Leute es mit Menschen tun, die jünger sind als sie selber, und fragte sich, wie lange er wohl bleiben werde: allem Anschein nach bloß kurz, denn er hatte nur einen kleinen Rucksack dabei. Wahrscheinlich würde er nicht mehr als eine Nacht bleiben und dann zu einem Ziel weiterwandern, das sie nicht kannte und das sie auch nicht interessierte.

[whole portal]

1. No
2. now already
3. yea kinda but idk how to explain, ihre would make it sound like she actually owned the world, die ihre is more like it belongs to her
4. Rechtschreibreform 1996

[icy flax]

Since we changed to English, I will also reply in English (:

1. No = modern and simple?
2. I still dont get it. I know their meaning individually, but in the text it sounds weird, especially when translating word-by-word ||since 15 years Berthe sit now already every day fore her door||. That's why I asked for the mood "nun schon" brings. I don't think there is a matching 1:1 translation.
3. got it!
4. oh, yeah, I do not mean the Eszett but the "wüsste" instead of "würde wissen". I know this form is usual in some regions, but some find it weird. Do you use "wüsste" when talking?

[whole portal]

It means that she's been sitting there every day for almost 15 years already at this point

Since we changed to English, I will also reply in English (:
force of habit sorry

And that's a common thing to say

"Ich wüsste jetzt nicht, wieso es das nicht sein sollte." ;)

[icy flax]

Thank you, @whole portal !!

[narrow pier]

can kreis mean circle and sphere`?

[long whale]

A circle is 2-dimensional, while a sphere is 3-dimensional, right? -> no

[narrow pier]

you are right

aber das war was hat geshrieben in leo

and I think netflix is very bad at tranlating

(Warum er sich,
Scheiße noch mal, erhängt hat) doesn't this statement mean dass das man hat sich erhängt wiederholen

like he hanged himself again

[long whale]

What, because of the "nochmal"? That's just part of the cursing.

[narrow pier]

thanks

i seriousley didnt know

[narrow pier]

Ulrich! Warum hat das so lange gedauert?

what does that das belong to

[mellow nova]

whatever you're talking about

[narrow pier]

so das can be used as ( that )

or it

okay when refering to something

[mellow nova]

not really it

but yes that

[narrow pier]

it was basketball spielen so i think that why das was used

[noble yacht]

Please don't post the same question across multiple channels ^^

[novel jackal]

And I thought I was sneaky

[novel jackal]

I am entirely certain that it will not get answered in the other channel because people already wrote below it about something unrelated

[noble yacht]

Hm yeah, maybe wait until the channel is completely full and post it then again-
I can't help you btw because I don't know this word in english-

[novel jackal]

Yeah, fair point. But I wasn't gonna spam it or something, I just wanted to post it in both chanells in case people who knew only looked in one or the other

[noble yacht]

Sure, it hasn't looked like this too-
Maybe post it again later if there won't be a response (hopefully it won't be like this ^^)

[ornate shuttle]

Kann ich das Verb *** beitragen*** in diesem Zusammenhang verwenden????

Der Sport trägt zu einer besseren Gesundheit bei

[proven sphinx]

Yeah, it works.

[fervent kernel]

Whats the best way to ironically Saxy that something hard to accomplish was very easy

Along the Linea of "i didn't even Break a sweat"

And could i very informally Sax "der Scheiß war easy" Like after winning a 1vs4 round

[hardy zinc]

Ist das korrekt "Kauf eine Hunde!" ("Buy this dog!") zu sagen?

[radiant pilot]

Kauf einen Hund

Buy a dog

but Buy this dog= Kauf diesen Hund

[hardy zinc]

Danke, und, say, "Lern Deutsch" would be imperative for "Learn German" right?

[radiant pilot]

genau

[hardy zinc]

gut, verstehe

[whole portal]

Kauf(e) diesen Hund!

[hardy zinc]

Wann brauche ich "e"?

[whole portal]

Nie

[hardy zinc]

._.

[whole portal]

kauf/kauf' ist trotzdem kurz für kaufe

[hardy zinc]

Ah... verstehe

[radiant pilot]

the same for Lernen, if i remember correctly

[whole portal]

Jap

[radiant pilot]

it's either Lern or Lerne

[hardy zinc]

Aber kann man "Kaufe diesen Hund" sagen?

[whole portal]

Ja

[hardy zinc]

Interessant

[radiant pilot]

and both iterations suggest the imperative, so don't worry

[hardy zinc]

Welch sagen Deutsche oft mehr? (not sure if I phrased that question correctly XD)

[whole portal]

The short one I'd say

Also

Things like uh

[long whale]

*Was sagen Deutsche öfter/häufiger?

[whole portal]

"handele"

becomes handle

But I think that's more reserved for (informal) speech

"handel" is also a possibility I think

[hardy zinc]

haha didn't reach comparative adjectives yet, but now I have an idea how they're formed XD

[whole portal]

Yea Duden lists handel, handele, handle!

[hardy zinc]

i see

[whole portal]

Could be a regional thing maybe that one is more used in the north and one in the south or so but I don't know 🤷‍♀️

[hardy zinc]

wait let me guess, ...
kalt -> kälter
gut -> güter
klug -> klüger?

[whole portal]

Haha

gut -> besser

Besides that yea

[hardy zinc]

Ah fair, I see

[whole portal]

Similar to french

bon -> meilleur

[hardy zinc]

More like... similar to English

Good -> better

[whole portal]

Yea also that but I wanted to at least use the french I had in school once 🥲

[hardy zinc]

XD

[hardy zinc]

Sprichst du French Französisch?

[radiant pilot]

Französisch

[hardy zinc]

Lol

[radiant pilot]

tupuduku

that's a french "word"

it means "you're a good guy"

[hardy zinc]

Sounds more like a Star Wars character

[sinful maple]

hallo ihr guys

[slim yew]

yes but not obvious

[long whale]

Yes, it turns into a short "ja" in front of "-zehnt/en" :)

[onyx rain]

Hi,
Why is
"Ich muss früher meine Eltern abholen" wrong?
But it's okay to say
"Ich muss später euren Freund vom Bahnhof abholen"
In both the sentences we are putting manner of time after verb ?

[onyx rain]

Hm not at all, it is from the current point of time, say we decided on some X time, now the flight got preponed and I am picking them up earlier.

Both sentences denoting future actions.

My main question is on the position of "früher" and "später"

[long whale]

Mm, then, it's technically correct. However, since we use "früher" to mean "in the past", you'd rather say something like "Ich muss meine Eltern früher/eher abholen als ich dachte" :)

[long whale]

Yeah, you can't really change the position of "früher/eher".

[onyx rain]

But it's okay to do it with "später"
Are both correct?
Ich muss euren Freund später vom Bahnhof abholen
Ich muss später euren Freund vom Bahnhof abholen

[long whale]

It might be because the verb is what "früher" refers to. I mean, there wouldn't be a choice of position for "earlier" in the English sentence, either, I think.

[long whale]

Ah, but there's the same difference as in English between "I have to pick him up later" and "Later, I have to pick him up", I'd say.

[onyx rain]

Starts to make sense.
Danke!

[ornate shuttle]

Kann ich das verb Einfallen in diesem Zusammenhang verwenden??

Heute hat eine tolle Idee in meinem Kopf eingefallen, dass warum wir einen Ausflug in die Berge nicht machen.

[long whale]

Context is... kind of okay, grammar is not.

What's the auxiliary for "einfallen"? And it's "jemandem" einfallen.

[ornate shuttle]

Okaay ich wusste das nicht

Heute habe ich eine Tolle Idde gebracht. Ist dieser Satz korrekt?

[long whale]

*... eine tolle Idee gehabt

And instead of your original sentence, you could say "Heute ist mir eingefallen, dass warum wir einen Ausflug in die Berge nicht machen könnten :)

[ornate shuttle]

Danke, du bist ja immer hilfsbereit!

[bright stream]

guten abend euch allen

Ich brauche Hilfe

bitte 🙏

[undone verge]

hast du eine Frage?

[final marlin]

Sprech

[bright stream]

Ich muss Melanie eine E-Mail schreiben, aber ich habe nicht verstanden, was ich schreiben soll

[undone verge]

hast du DeepL probiert? Oder gibt's ein spezifisches Wort bzw. eine Phrase, die du nicht verstehst?

[bright stream]

muss ich ihm erklären, wie sie nach BERN gehen soll oder was?

[undone verge]

entweder schreibst du, dass du schon mal in Bern warst (in diesem Fall, solltest du die Textbausteine unter 'A' benutzen, um deinen Brief zu verfassen) oder dass du noch nie da warst (in diesem Fall die Redemittel unter 'B').

[bright stream]

Vielen Dank 🥰

[ornate shuttle]

Hallo,

Welche Form ist mehr benutzt.

Passiv in Präteritum
Oder passiv in Peefekt ??

[undone verge]

depends on the person. Spoken you'll hear both.

[bright stream]

hallo

Liebe Melanie,

Vielen Dank für deine E-Mail. Ich war schon einmal in Bern und es gefällt mir sehr gut. Die Leute sind freundlich und das Essen ist gut wie Ragusa (Schokolade mit Haselnüssen) Mandelbärli (Bär mit Mandeln) du kannst auch einen guten Whisky trinken, den Swiss Mountain Single Malt.
ich habe viele Sehenswürdigkeiten besichtigt, die spätgotische Kathedrale ist sehr schön und groß, der Bärenpark war besonders schön, aber den Schützenbrunnen habe ich nicht gesehen.
wenn du im Moment keine Zeit hast, kannst du vielleicht im September nach Bern kommen und wir machen eine gemeinsame Tour.

Liebe Grüße
Lena

ist es gut geschrieben ????

[prisma vigil]

Hallo möchte einer Freundin schreiben, "hast du eine Gurke zuhause zufällig? Nur wenn ja bitte bring sie mit. Aber kein problem auch ohne!" (Ich bin bei Wortstellung nicht sicher: nur wenn ja oder wenn nur ja/ kein problem ohne auch oder auch ohne oder auch kein prob..??@_@)

[proven sphinx]

It sounds a bit weird.

"Hast du zufällig eine Gurke zu Hause? Wenn ja, bringe sie bitte mit. Wenn du aber keine hast, dann ist das auch kein Problem!"

It would sound better like this.

[bright stream]

Raven hallo

können Sie mir den Text korrigieren

Liebe Melanie,

Vielen Dank für deine E-Mail. Ich war schon einmal in Bern und es gefällt mir sehr gut. Die Leute sind freundlich und das Essen ist gut wie Ragusa (Schokolade mit Haselnüssen) Mandelbärli (Bär mit Mandeln) du kannst auch einen guten Whisky trinken, den Swiss Mountain Single Malt.
ich habe viele Sehenswürdigkeiten besichtigt, die spätgotische Kathedrale ist sehr schön und groß, der Bärenpark war besonders schön, aber den Schützenbrunnen habe ich nicht gesehen.
wenn du im Moment keine Zeit hast, kannst du vielleicht im September nach Bern kommen und wir machen eine gemeinsame Tour.

Liebe Grüße
Lena

[proven sphinx]

The sentence with "Die Leute sind..." is a bit hard to read. Maybe you can insert a few commas or even separate it into at least two sentences.

[fervent kernel]

how can i join in channels

[prisma vigil]

Vielen lieben Dank!

[ornate shuttle]

Wenn ich nur mehr gelernt hätte, hätte ich die Prüfung bestanden

Hätte ich bloß mehr gelernt, könnte ich die Prüfung bestehen.

Hätte ich nur mehr gelernt, würde ich die Prüfung bestehen.

sind alle diese Sätze korrekt?

[fervent kernel]

ja

ich kann deutsch bro

[proven sphinx]

Ja, sie sind alle korrekt.

[fluid grove]

ok i cant really find it just tell me how can i joina voice room

[stoic mauve]

@fluid grove, please read the Roles section in #getting-started for info on how to join VC and more.

[ornate shuttle]

Sind der zweite und dritte Satz gleich von Bedeutung?

[fluid grove]

ich spiele deutsch gerne

[bright stream]

vielen danke Raven🥰

[median loom]

Hey so could anyone correct this

Please

[proven sphinx]

That is very hard to read. Why did you write this in blue?

[bright stream]

ok danke

[median loom]

sorry was it's the colour I use the most on homework or more

[proven sphinx]

I'd suggest using dark blue rather than light blue, though. Your teacher would definitely appreciate it as well.

Just use a normal pen.

[median loom]

ok

[vast violet]

"Bevor ich in die Schule gehe" - warum hast du das geschrieben? du musst etwas weiteres danach schreiben, oder den ganzen Satz weglassen. Es ist auch, "Bevor ich zur Schule gehe"

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im meine Zimmer❌
in meinem Zimmer✅

*und im Bus oder im (?) sitze, mit Kopfhörern.

*höre ich um zu brainstormen

Meine ganze Familie ((das Verb fehlt hier))...

*weil ich nicht sehr gut singen kann

Meine favourite❌
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[median loom]

he von zeit zu zeit is good

[vast violet]

hmm so scheint es zu sein, ich habe es entfernt, danke