Questions about common expressions used in conversation and colloquial speech.
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Online resource which has easy German to read with its English translation
Is there any resource online which has easy German (should use most common words in daily setting) and also has its English translation alongside?
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What is the German equivalent of the English “aka”?
In English, the abbreviation aka means "also known as".
A literal German translation might be "auch bekannt wie". Is this, in fact, the correct German equivalent? And is the abbreviation ABW (or the ...
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Kann man “sich entschuldigen” oder nur “um Entschuldigung bitten”?
Achtung: Folgende Frage könnte als Haarspalterei oder Spitzfindigkeit empfunden werden.
Ich frage mich, ob der folgende Ausdruck
sich entschuldigen
eigentlich richtig ist. Man hört ihn sehr ...
