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| location | Göttingen | |
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| visits | member for | 1 year, 5 months |
| seen | 2 days ago | |
| stats | profile views | 2 |
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Apr 9 |
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Does German language have “possessive apostrophe”? @HendrikVogt: Actually, the Duden is committed to recording actual usage of German. So, yes, if a mistake is made sufficiently often by a sufficient number of people, it is adopted by the Duden. That said, Thomas Mann uses the Apostrophe for names ending in a vowel (but not for those ending in a consonant) in Der Zauberberg (1924). |
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Mar 12 |
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German verbs vs English verbs Is there really that much of a difference? After all, this seems to be mainly a convention determining how to name verbs in a meta context -- when we use German and English verbs in actual language, the forms with and without to/zu seem to occur in similar contexts. If I were to speculate, maybe English verbs use to simply to unambiguously mark them as verbs (since you can "verb any noun", there usually exists a noun with the same spelling). |
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Mar 9 |
awarded | Enlightened |
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Mar 8 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Mar 7 |
answered | What is the proper position of “gern”? |
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Mar 5 |
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How can I learn noun genders better? @userunknown: Stimmt, an den einzelnen Kämpfer hatte ich nicht gedacht. |
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Mar 5 |
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How can I learn noun genders better? @userunknown: Ich kenne die Guerilla, aber der Gorilla. |
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Feb 7 |
answered | Translating what The Queen said: does she always address her subjects as «Du»? |
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Jan 30 |
answered | Welche Schriftsteller oder Dichter waren für die Entwicklung der deutschen Sprache ausschlaggebend? |
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Jan 30 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Jan 27 |
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Are the subjunctives of “brauchen” and “verbrauchen” different? duden.de/rechtschreibung/brauchen, older printed editions do not mention bräuchte at all. |
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Jan 27 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Jan 27 |
answered | Are the subjunctives of “brauchen” and “verbrauchen” different? |
