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How to describe the location (North, South, East and West) of a country/city with respect to another country/city
liegt – ist
German has a couple of verbs that do not describe an action, but the kind of being located somewhere. English has such verbs too, but in English they are mainly used to describe positions ...
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Is there a database for german words with their pronunciation?
Wiktionary is also not suffient, as it can not be easily parsed by a computer.
Umm, I beg to differ. It's a one-liner.
$ curl 2>/dev/null -o- https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hund|grep -m1 'IPA'|sed ...
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Why is "Null" Plural?
It's a language property. Logic doesn't work there. Both English and German use the plural form for any number other than 1, thus also for zero.
Other languages treat that sometimes very differently. ...
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Adjective with or without ending (declension)
According to grammar, you can use both versions, but the meaning differs slightly.
Weich gekochte Eier esse ich gern.
Here, "weich" is an adverb (so its ending is fixed), and thus ...
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Adjective with or without ending (declension)
The tricky part about German is that there's no distinction in writing between adverbs and adjectives, as for example in English. Although you can argue that there is in this case, because if it were ...
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What word do Germans use for recharge?
In German, there is no need to distinguish the scenarios: Aufladen works for charging the battery as well as well as transferring money for future use, like a prepaid SIM or a prepaid debit card.
Only ...
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What word do Germans use for recharge?
I would use both aufladen (to charge) or wieder aufladen (to recharge) in both senses, Akku (battery) and Konto (account). I would also use both charge and recharge in both senses in English.
I can't ...
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How come bold part of the sentence is subject?
If Personalchefs were the subject, the verb would have to be in plural, because Personalchefs is plural.
Also, if the bold part were accusative, it would have to be einen Berufs- oder Personalwechsel, ...
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When to use "weil" and when to use "obwohl"?
This isn't a question of grammar, but of meaning. The choice is the speaker's.
Ich mag die Blumen, weil sie gelb sind.
I like flowers when they are yellow and these flowers are yellow; it follows ...
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Useful Languages for Tourists in Southern Bavaria?
All the media in Germany are in Standard German (Hochdeutsch), so every Bavarian will be able to understand it. Almost all Bavarians will also be able to speak it, some with a more or less heavy ...
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Formal or familiar address in Combat?
Comrade is not comrade.
One likely will be on colloquial terms ("Du") with the men one immediately serves with, thus the same company, maybe batallion - those men you hang out with daily and ...
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Wie geht's? in a formal situation?
This is, as mentioned in the comments, not a formal situation. It's just that the older lady (Frau Wachter) has not proposed the "Du" to Nicole because they are not very close. This would be ...
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How to describe the location (North, South, East and West) of a country/city with respect to another country/city
In German, things are generally not described as just "being" at a location, but instead are described as "doing" something there. This is often "lying" - "liegen&...
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Unexpected reply to "Alles gut?"
We can only speculate - and the original speaker is the best source to clarify what they meant.
Wording similar to what you provide:
vollauf - completely, fully, entirely
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Is there a database for german words with their pronunciation?
Yes, there is:
The Deutsche Aussprachedatenbank ('German pronounciation database', short DAD) is a free scientific online database by the University of Halle-Wittenberg with over 130.000 entries based ...
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Ist die Aussage "es geht an" eine Redewendung oder was?
Der Satz lautet:
Im Fastenmonat sollen Muslime so oft es geht an ihren Gott – sie nennen ihn Allah - denken und zu ihm beten.
Ich teile den Satz mal in seine Satzteile auf. Ich schreibe jeden ...
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Formal or familiar address in Combat?
As far as I know (haven't been in the army myself) the general rule is that soldiers of a rank below non-commissioned officers address each other with Du, whereas higher ranks are addressed with Sie. ...
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Use fehlt for fehlen
The subject of the sentence is 'das Geld'. That is singular and thus is the verb. 'Vielen Familien' is the Dativ object of this sentence.
You likely are confused by the word order which is quite ...
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All three words mean same but is there any particular rule when to use which one?
Karriere has an implication of success, (Berufs-)laufbahn doesn't. Also, Berufslaufbahn is obviously less of a foreign word (Fremdwort) than Karriere, which might make a difference in some contexts. ...
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Unexpected reply to "Alles gut?"
Alternatively to @planetmakers answer it could be
wohlauf
which means as much as "healthy" and "in good good condition".
I concur with the rest of his answer: we can only ...
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How to describe the location (North, South, East and West) of a country/city with respect to another country/city
I would like to see the genitive here: ‹Die Stadt› liegt im Süden Deutschlands, if it is a German town. Südlich von would indicate that it is south outside of Germany, in Switzerland, Austria or Italy....
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Warum sind manche Dialektwörter Bestandteile einer Standardvariation, andere aber nicht?
Kurze Antwort: Zufall.
Viele Wörter haben einen regionalen Ursprung. Welches Wort sich überregional durchsetzt, lässt sich im Einzelfall nicht vorhersehen. Das südliche «Samstag» verdrängt das ...
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Grammar help - zusehen/anrufen, why is it Dative and not
Forget about the terms direct object and indirect object when it comes to German. Yes, they exist and the terms are applicable but that doesn't help you as a learner.
That is because you can't ...
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How come bold part of the sentence is subject?
You can tell that "Personalchefs" isn't the subject because as a subject, it would have to agree with the verb, and it doesn't ("Chefs" is plural but "stört" is singular)....
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How come bold part of the sentence is subject?
You seem to be confused by two things:
Word order: Most Western languages tend to follow an SPO order. This sentence follows German (V2) word order, so the object comes first. Re-write the sentence ...
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War das gesprochene Deutsch vor 500-1000 Jahren ähnlicher dem Hoch- oder dem Plattdeutsch?
Die korrekte Antwort auf diese Frage lautet: Das kommt darauf an.
Diese Frage unterstellt nämlich etwas, das gar nicht zutrifft: In der Frage steht: »das ... Deutsch«. Es wird so getan, als gäbe es ...
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Use fehlt for fehlen
It's fehlt because the subject is das Geld, which is singular.
Vielen Familien is the dative object tells who has to bear the result of the action. Who benefits from it or who has to deal with its ...
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Use fehlt for fehlen
There is indeed something odd about the verb fehlen. As has already been pointed out in the other answers, the thing that is missing appears as the nominative subject with this verb, and there's no ...
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Wie geht's? in a formal situation?
First of all, it's not about formal vs informal but about distant vs familiar. Sure, being formal means maintaining a distance but the opposite isn't always true:
Ein Arschgesicht sind Sie!
Very ...
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Ist die Aussage "es geht an" eine Redewendung oder was?
Your sentence is incomplete.
Im [...] sollen [...] so oft es geht an ihren Gott - sie nennen ihn [...] - denken und beten.
It's an inserted phrase "they call him [...]" before the verb ...
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