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In Nana Mouskouri's "Küsse süßer als Wein", according to any lyric site on the net I visited including the artist's personal website, she sings:
Ich hatte manches Schöne mir vorgestellt
I am afraid I do not understand the "..manches Schöne.." in this sentence.
I have never head the word Schöne being used as a noun (is it even this?) and I would expect something along the lines of "..manche schöne (Dinge).."
What am I missing here?
All German adjectives can be turned into nouns, also their comparatives, their superlatives and their aller- super-superlatives.
schön, schöner, am schönsten, am allerschönsten
der/die/das Schöne, der/die/das Schönere, der/die/das Schönste, der/die/das Allerschönste
These nouns come in all three genders as they had to match a subject or object from a previous sentence.
Just about every adjective can be nominalized in German, in three variations, one for each genus. In a way, these are just abbreviations:
Not all of them might be used frequently (e.g. instead of "die Blonde", you may also often hear "die Blondine"), and some might adopt a more specific/ less literal meaning ("das Blonde" refers to a type of beer).
Accordingly, "manches Schöne" stands for "manches schöne Ding". "Ding" is used in the most general sense here, i.e. not just "object", but also "event".
I'd translate the line as
I had imagined many a beautiful thing
(which sounds weird because English can't do the same)
