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Mir gefällt etw an dir/ mich stört etw an dir/ usw…

Es geht wieder um die Verwendung der Präposition an, aber dieses Mal in Verbindung mit Verben wie gefallen, mögen, stören… Wie zum Beispiel bei folgenden Sätzen An dir gefällt mir deine Stimme. Mich ...
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Language rigidity -- part 2

I keep encountering incidents that feel to me like unwarranted insistence by German speakers to limit the flexibility of the language. I can imagine these questions may be annoying to some native ...
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Rigidity of language

When I attempted to translate: It’s been giving me a case of nerves, or it would if I let it. to 2 native German speakers by saying: Das gab mir einen Fall der Nerven, oder es würde, wenn ich es ...
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