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Gebrauch von “-wert” gegenüber “-würdig”
Gibt's einen deutlichen Unterschied zwischen den Wortendungen "-wert" und "-würdig"?
Wie z.B.: "bemerkenswert" oder "merkwürdig"
Ich spüre also dazwischen einen feinen Nuanceunterschied im ...
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Are sentences such as “wir waren essen” grammatically correct?
German supposedly has no equivalent of the progressive/continuous tense in English (e.g. "we are going"). However, I sometimes hear sentences such as "wir waren essen" or "er ist telefonieren". Are ...
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Does the order of a subordinate clause change meaning?
When building a subordinate clauses we can put them at the end of a sentence, or at the beginning:
Er lernt fleißig Deutsch, damit er sein Examen besteht.
Damit er sein Examen besteht, lernt er ...
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Difference between “euch” and “du”? And some insight into words like “Spiel”?
I've enrolled at the institute of language to learn German (my family is mostly German, but I've grown up in Australia). I lived in Germany for about 2 years when I was a kid and picked up enough to ...
