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| location | Norway | |
| age | 26 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years |
| seen | May 31 at 16:22 | |
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Norwegisch ist meine Muttersprache, aber ich habe seit dem ersten September 2010 versucht, Deutsch zu lernen.
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Jun 11 |
awarded | Good Answer |
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May 25 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Mar 7 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Feb 12 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Jul 24 |
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What grammar form is “Es muss gemacht worden sein”? A related question, but without the passive: german.stackexchange.com/q/799/119 |
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Jul 4 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Jun 15 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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May 25 |
awarded | Yearling |
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May 1 |
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Words in German that begin in “kn-” and are cognates of the English words with the same meaning edited title |
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Mar 28 |
accepted | Umgekehrte Wortstellung und der Genitiv, z. B: »des Wanderers Schritte« statt »die Schritte des Wanderers« |
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Mar 21 |
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Wort oder Redewendung für plötzliches, spontanes Vergessen Hat dieser Ausdruck dieselbe Bedeutung wie "Ich stehe auf dem Schlauch"? |
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Feb 22 |
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Origin of the “dem Mann sein Hut” construct One might speculate that it is of old Germanic origin, since the construct is shared by other Germanic languages; in Norwegian for instance, the normal possessive is "Mannen sin hatt". |
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Jan 19 |
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Do all nouns from verbs nominalized by the suffix “-ung” have a female gender? I find it interesting that the natives don't know this, as it's one of the first things you learn as a foreigner! My teacher added humorously that it was the first and the last time we would come across a rule without an exception in the German language ... |
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Sep 13 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Sep 13 |
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Recommended ways to learn the cases? added 54 characters in body |
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Sep 12 |
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Recommended ways to learn the cases? Interesting remark, I think you're right! The exceptions are the verbs with prepositions, though: "An wem zweifeln Sie?" and "In wen sind Sie verliebt?" do not quite fit. |
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Sep 12 |
answered | Recommended ways to learn the cases? |
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Sep 12 |
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Recommended ways to learn the cases? I asked earlier on this site about how these sort of questions are supposed to help non-native speakers, and the conclusion is that the questions help only when your Sprachgefühl is already well developed. |
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Aug 31 |
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Is there a reason why Germany (Deutschland) is called so many different things in other European languages? Your supposition about Tyskland is correct. Tysk stems from the pre-nordic þýdisker which is a cognate of the High German diutisc. |
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Aug 25 |
answered | What are the origin & possible meanings of the ver- prefix? |
