Timeline for "ich" in different cases
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| Dec 30, 2014 at 20:46 | comment | added | Cerberus | Hmm I would say you can change genders mid-sentence with a copula, then, but the subject still has an invisible gender in those sentence. I conclude that based on your in your last sentence you should, technically speaking, use "das". | |
| Dec 30, 2014 at 13:53 | comment | added | Em1 | @Cerberus I wouldn't say that it 'modifies' the subject. If you use "sein", it simply means equality "Ich = der Schönste". I also don't think it has to be the same gender: "Du bist das Beste, was mir je passiert ist", but also "Du bist der/die Beste". Furthermore, when you speak to a child, you can apply both "das" for "das Kind" or "der" or "die" for its actual gender: "Du bist der dümmste Junge/das dümmste Mädchen/das dümmste Kind" - "Du bist der/die dümmste von allen". In your last sentence you should, technically speaking, use "das"; but "die" is fine. – Anyway. "Ich" has no article. | |
| Dec 30, 2014 at 13:29 | comment | added | Cerberus | The article does not directly modify the subject; it modifies Schönste. However, it could be argued that die/der/das Schönste modifies the subject, ich. It must be of the same gender as ich and changes accordingly as ich is a male or a female speaker. Die Königin is die Schönste is similar. Unless it is possible to say das kleine Mädchen ist die Schönste; is that possible? | |
| Dec 30, 2014 at 9:54 | comment | added | Em1 | @Cerberus I disagree. The article "der/die/das" is associated with the substantive "Schönste". Compare: "(Die) Heidi[=Sie] ist die Schönste". "Sie" is just the replacement for the name (including a potential article). If the article would be applied to the pronoun, it would precede it immediately: *"Die sie ist die Schönste" (which is obviously wrong). Furthermore, where would the article be if there's no further substantive but an adjective? | |
| Dec 30, 2014 at 9:40 | comment | added | Cerberus | Ich does have a gender: it's just not visible, because there is no article. But you can see it in ich bin die/der/das Schönste, right? | |
| Dec 30, 2014 at 8:49 | history | answered | Em1 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |