e, it finishes after the shops shut, so i am going to look for your gummis at the weekend
― caek, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 12:48 (eleven years ago) link
p.s. omg http://www.dict.cc/?s=m%C3%B6pse
"babylons (coll)"!
― caek, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 12:49 (eleven years ago) link
"charlies"???
― recordbreaking transfer to Lucknow FC (seandalai), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 13:14 (eleven years ago) link
spicy ginger babylons!
good luck with your intensive course, it sounds exciting and terrifying
― put a fillyjonk on it (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
halt die ohren steif.
― fancy cure from all alarms (☆), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
ha, ein nützlicher Ausdruck
ich fuhle mich wie ich trinke von einem Feuerwehrschlauch
― caek, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
Stop feeling yourself like that.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
they love them some reflexive words
― caek, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
so is your plan to take one of Goethe Institute language proficiency exams?
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
i don't think so. some of the people in my class are building up to that i think. and there is a section at the end of our coursebook explaining how zertifikat deutsch works. so maybe? i guess i will find out what i've signed up for in 8 weeks?!
― caek, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
do you know when the möpse gummis were released e? couldn't find them in my local (admittedly quite small) supermarkt.
― caek, Sunday, 8 July 2012 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
i just wrote an essay about sport in britain ... in german
― caek, Sunday, 8 July 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
it is incredibly boring, but i use the genitive case, a relative pronoun, and konjunktiv ii
Es ist noch kein Meister vom Himmel gefallen
― ratso piazzolla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 July 2012 02:08 (eleven years ago) link
haha "Use Konjunktiv II" was a permanent fixture on my German exam checklist at school
― recordbreaking transfer to Lucknow FC (seandalai), Monday, 9 July 2012 10:18 (eleven years ago) link
konjunktiv ii würd ich die pfoten von lassen. especially the missingsche version displayed in the last sentence, which will get you derben respekt irl, but in tests, not so much.
― fancy cure from all alarms (☆), Monday, 9 July 2012 13:32 (eleven years ago) link
wait, that was konjunktiv i. hätt ich besser nichts gesagt.
― fancy cure from all alarms (☆), Monday, 9 July 2012 13:47 (eleven years ago) link
haha, yeah konjunctiv i is a battle for another day
― caek, Monday, 9 July 2012 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB4TqRTWxgE
― caek, Thursday, 12 July 2012 13:38 (eleven years ago) link
this course is amazing. i am giving a 5 minute talk about the curiosity rover in class tomorrow
― caek, Monday, 6 August 2012 23:41 (eleven years ago) link
not sure how grammatical i was, and pretty sure i invented some words, but i seemed to get my point across
― caek, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
Yay!
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
Toll!
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
das Sonnensystem
― caek, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
i refereed to mars curiosity as mars neugir throughout, but nobody laughed
― caek, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
ausgezeichnet
― KARLOR CAN FUCK ANYTHING! AND HE WILL AND HAS!!! (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 04:51 (eleven years ago) link
can anybody point me to a half decent resource on "die Fälle" which isn't just tables & metalanguage, and would hopefully be example sentences of things people actually say in pos, neg & Q sentences?
― iglu ferrignu, Friday, 10 August 2012 08:01 (eleven years ago) link
cough http://www.sendspace.com/file/hoyxrb
cough cough http://www.sendspace.com/file/6vxew5
― caek, Friday, 10 August 2012 11:50 (eleven years ago) link
Umgebung = best German word?
― sorry for asshole (dog latin), Friday, 10 August 2012 11:53 (eleven years ago) link
pp33-50 in the first one
ctrl-f nom, acc, dat, gen in the second one
― caek, Friday, 10 August 2012 11:53 (eleven years ago) link
Ich habe eine meerschweinschen in die umgebung gegessen
― sorry for asshole (dog latin), Friday, 10 August 2012 11:54 (eleven years ago) link
I was disappointed when I realised you pronounce it umGEbung not UMgebung
― Vasco da Gama, Friday, 10 August 2012 12:13 (eleven years ago) link
thanks caek - that looks to make more sense than most!
― iglu ferrignu, Friday, 10 August 2012 12:14 (eleven years ago) link
the schaum examples are particularly good, i think
and don't worry about genitive until you know you need to
― caek, Friday, 10 August 2012 12:15 (eleven years ago) link
if you're british (this doesn't work for american english), the classic example is writing a letter:
"i write a letter"
i = subject, i.e. nominative
a letter = direct object, i.e. accusative
now i add the recipient of the letter:
"i write a letter to my friend"
"my friend" = indirect object, i.e. dative
― caek, Friday, 10 August 2012 12:17 (eleven years ago) link
two groups of words i am struggling with at the momen
vorschlagen - suggestvermuten - assumeverinbaren - stipulate
die Ausrede - excuse, pretextdie Ausnahme - exceptionausreden - dissuadeangeben - declareder Angeber - showoffabreden - stipulate
― caek, Monday, 13 August 2012 12:22 (eleven years ago) link
also
eigen - own (e.g. at your own risk)einzig - only (e.g. the only people)einig - a few
― caek, Monday, 13 August 2012 12:31 (eleven years ago) link
vereinbaren, verabreden. es herrscht unmut im klassenzimmer.
― ☆, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 05:46 (eleven years ago) link
caek, where are those definitions from? Langenscheidt (emphasis on the last syllable)? They are not good, and very oversimplified. Generally speaking, German-English dictionaries where Germans have the final editorial say SUCK -- German has a much smaller usable vocabulary set than English, and as a result, they present the English words as if they were simple direct cognates much more often than is usable in reality. German words do a lot of heavy lifting, and most of the verbs you listed have a lot of different meanings, including ones more closely related to the noun forms.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 06:45 (eleven years ago) link
Basically, I think you're better off with a German learner's dictionary or school dictionary than any given German-English dictionary once you've got a year or two under your belt.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 06:48 (eleven years ago) link
mittwoch
― the late great, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 07:04 (eleven years ago) link
my favorite german sentence
ich habe ein audi
― the late great, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 07:07 (eleven years ago) link
not sure about the conjugations in that one, i did manage four years but it was half a lifetime ago
The conjugation is correct. The pronunciation is "eech bean ayn oarschloch."
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 07:22 (eleven years ago) link
du bist ein affe
― the late great, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 07:35 (eleven years ago) link
i think mostly get what those words mean. the one-word definitions there are my own, for this thread. but yeah i should probably graduate to a D-D dictionary.
― caek, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 08:33 (eleven years ago) link
http://megacycles.tumblr.com/post/13800349009/schones-foto
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Friday, 24 August 2012 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
what is the plural of Glas, Glassen oder Glaese?
Ich habe zwei Glassen Wein getrunken, wer werden mit mir Deutsch sprechen?
― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Friday, 24 August 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
bitte, ich möchte gern ein Glas Bier.
― KARLOR CAN FUCK ANYTHING! AND HE WILL AND HAS!!! (Eisbaer), Friday, 24 August 2012 00:59 (eleven years ago) link