Timeline for How should I say something like "I'm" instead of "I am" in German?
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| Aug 9, 2015 at 8:27 | comment | added | TaW | Definitely not typical German. | |
| Aug 8, 2015 at 15:18 | comment | added | Polygnome | @chrilu: Sorry, but that seems to be some anecdotal thing from your own dialect, but not widely used. It would be way more common just to say "Ja Hallo, bin grad im Zug", dropping the "ich" entirely instead of making a strange 'ch' sound. | |
| Aug 8, 2015 at 13:46 | comment | added | chirlu | @idmean: Well, I somewhat agree that the i (and the glottal stop before it!) can be dropped. Perhaps not so much at the start of an utterance, but it’s quite common in the middle, in particular after a vowel: Ja hallo, ’ch sitz’ hier gerade im Zug … | |
| Aug 8, 2015 at 8:29 | comment | added | idmean | The first paragraph of your answer sounds strange to me. I have never heard „ch’bin“. | |
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| Aug 7, 2015 at 15:05 | history | answered | Benjaminssp | CC BY-SA 3.0 |