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Ich clearly is the grammatical subject. There are numerous cues for that: It is in nominative case; subjects usually use this case. It comes right after the verb (though this is not the strongest hint as not 100% fail proof). The verb machen is in accordance with a subject first person singular: mache. Technically it could also be conjunctive 1 ("Der Arzt ...

The voiced uvular fricative [ʁ] is nowadays the common pronunciation of "r" in High German. The uvular trill [R] is used if you want to emphasize the "r", or if you want to achieve a clear pronunciation in a more formal speech or conversation. In most contexts it is harder to speak and thus avoided. Both originated from a weakening of the alveolar thrill ...

Obviously "I ate too much" is mostly used in a colloquial setting. Therefore in addition to the correct literal translation "Ich habe zu viel gegessen" we do have several colloquial variants we may probably hear more often: Ich kann nicht mehr. Ich bin pappsatt. Ich platze.

Hochdeutsch is the description for the contemporary standard version of German, they way the language is usually written and spoken. Therefore, it is also the easiest variation to learn, because if you look for exercise books, they will cover most probably Hochdeutsch instead of a dialect.

An accusative phrase that is part of a prepositional phrase is not an accusative object. Fahren has no accusative object here, just an attribute to indicate direction. Therefore, its correct perfect auxiliary is indeed "sein", as in Ich bin in die Stadt gefahren. It would be a different case if you added a real accusative object to it: Ich habe ...

It is acceptable, because it is also common to use "SS" for words written in up-case letters, as there is no capital "ß" in the official orthography rules, so the up-case version of "Straße" ist "STRASSE" (sometimes you see things like "STRAßE" which is just a horribly incorrect spelling). Therefore, writing "Strasse" instead of "Straße" would be formally ...

Usually most of the foreigner words in German used to be neutral (as in das Internet – probably the reason is that it was borrowed from English where there is no easy way to say what gender has a noun). die Jeans is a short form of die Jeanshose and it got gender from Hose. You can actually say der Jeans and it would be understand as der Jeansstoff. Now in ...

Der von dir zur Diskussion gestellte Vorgang ist aus rein logischen Gründen nicht möglich: Ein Wesen, egal ob Gott oder etwas anderes, kann entweder sterblich oder unsterblich sein, aber nicht beides zugleich. Wenn ein Wesen auf irgendeine Weise unsterblich geworden ist, kann es laut Definition niemals sterben. "Niemals" bedeutet: "Nie und nimmer, unter gar ...

Here ich is at the nominative case. If ich was not the subject, it would be mich (accusative form) or mir (dative form)... However it is simply in the nominative form... so it is grammatically written as the subject of the sentence.

Duden hat einen Eintrag für "hoch" in der Bedeutung "hinauf". Dazu ist keine Angabe zum Gebrauch gemacht, wie es bei umganssprachlichen oder regional begrenzten Ausdrücken üblicherweise geschieht. Daraus würde ich lesen, dass "hoch" in der angegebenen Bedeutung (bundesdeutsch) standardsprachlich ist und es keine Einwände gegen den Gebrauch im ...

According to german wikipedia] uvular trill [R] is used as the standard pronounciation in Schweiz, Siebenbürgen, Bayern, Österreich, Südtirol and part of Norddeutschlands. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimmhafter_alveolarer_Vibrant I'm from austria myself and only use it in classical singing or in very formal public speech: its used in "stage german" ...

Whenever you are looking for the subject in a question, you can generally just rearrange it into a statement to make it easier to see. And try to identify the parts that you know aren't the subject (like prepositional phrases, adjectives, and adverbs) and drop them out to make your search easier. However, you'll find that even whole phrases can be the ...

Eine Antwort aus einem anderen Blickwinkel wäre nietzscheanisch: Götter werden sterblich (und sterben ggf. schließlich), wenn sie von den Menschen nicht mehr fortwährend erschaffen werden. Aus einer konstruktivistischen Sicht also, im Gegensatz zu der in der Frage implizierten monotheistisch Religiösen (nämlich dass ein Gott sei). Götzendämmerung, oder auch ...