Timeline for When should I use the different types of why and because in German?
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| Jun 10, 2023 at 11:42 | comment | added | Eike Schulte | Sure, people will say it, but much less frequently, I think. “Deswegen” also has the “disadvantage” of being longer when it comes to being used as a flippant reply. | |
| Jun 10, 2023 at 3:19 | comment | added | user unknown | @HagenvonEitzen: Und "Deswegen!" geht nicht? Selbst "Weil'!" musste ich schon hören und lesen. | |
| Jun 7, 2023 at 21:40 | comment | added | Hagen von Eitzen | @Jan Perhaps "darum" has a few tiny disadvantages compared to the other variants: It can have other meanings ("es geht darum, die Welt zu retten" = "It is about saving the world"), so there might be some ambiguity in very complex sentences. And it may have a bit of a stigma of being used colloquially when someone stubbornly does not want to actually state a reason ("Warum hast du das gemacht?" - "Darum!!") | |
| Jun 7, 2023 at 11:57 | comment | added | Eike Schulte | Variety is the spice of life, even in (most) formal writing. I don’t feel like ‘deshalb’ is any more formal than ‘deswegen’. Maybe ‘darum’ is ever so slightly less formal, but if someone had written it, I wouldn’t suggest changing it. | |
| Jun 7, 2023 at 11:54 | comment | added | Jan | I would propose that "deshalb" is usually better than "darum" or "deswegen" in formal writing? | |
| Jun 7, 2023 at 9:38 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | I meant because therefore is the only one that has a direct interrogative counterpart (albeit quite an old-fashioned one) in wherefore, parallel to how darum has an interrogative counterpart in warum. | |
| Jun 7, 2023 at 9:12 | comment | added | Eike Schulte | Yeah, sure, there are many English words for this as well. Thus, hence, therefore, ergo, … | |
| Jun 7, 2023 at 9:00 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | Or darum = therefore. | |
| Jun 7, 2023 at 7:51 | history | answered | Eike Schulte | CC BY-SA 4.0 |