301 Answered Questions for the topic German
German
05/31/19
What is the reason for this seemingly inconsistent inflection around masculine genitive?
I found the following sentence in a book:
> (...) bemerkte ich (...) eine mir auffällige Übereinstimmung bezüglich des Inhaltes der drei Zeitungsfetzen: sie...
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German
05/31/19
When to use the pronoun "es"?
I am not a German native speaker.
I know that in certain situations the pronoun "es" has a different usage
than the English "it", but I am not sure when it should be used and when it...
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German
05/31/19
Use of “es” to anticipate a following clause?
I’m working my way through Hammer’s _Practicing German grammar_ workbook (second edition) using the _German grammar and usage_ textbook (fourth edition). I’m in chapter three and everything is...
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German
05/30/19
When would one use "im" and "am" rather than "in dem" and "an dem?
I'm new to German and I get a bit confused about when it's ***"dem"*** or ***"im"*** or ***"den"*** rather than ***"in der"*** or ***"in dem"*** and so on.
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German
05/29/19
How to properly analyze grossly incoherent colloquial constructs?
Take a question like:
> War jetzt morgen eigentlich Probe?
The grammatical temporal cues are grossly incoherent: *War* is past tense, *jetzt* points to the present, *morgen* points to the...
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German
05/29/19
What are the past forms of the verb in “Klarheit schaffen”?
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German
05/24/19
How do you say "from X to Y" in German?
How do you say "from X to Y" in German? I am not sure if I am supposed to write an article with "zu":
> Ich höre mir alle Arten deutscher Musik an, vom Rock bis zu(r?) Hip-Hop.
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German
05/24/19
When to use possessive pronouns vs. dative pronoun + definite article?
German uses a reflexive dative pronoun and a regular definite article in many places where English would use a possessive pronoun. For example:
>I broke my leg.
**Ich habe mir das Bein...
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German
05/21/19
Can "nach" mean "about"?
Whilst watching an exercise video about "Präpositionen mit Dativ", I noticed that _nach_ was used with the meaning of _about_:
> Der Tourist erkundigt sich nach dem Fahrplan.
I know...
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German
05/20/19
How one can distinguish between the usage of "gern" (or "gerne" for this matter) as "gladly" and as "like to"?
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German
05/19/19
Which preposition does one use to specify the price of something after verbs "ankaufen" and "verkaufen"?
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German
05/19/19
Possessive pronoun, how to use them as "Stellvertreter" vs. "Begleiter"?
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German
05/17/19
mit der ihr German?
Can someone translate me this sentence in English and explain to me how "mit der ihr" works?
Sie fuhr mit der ihr eigentümlichen, drolligen Aufmerksamkeit.
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German
05/16/19
Can “manche” induce singular? (“Winterreise” example)?
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German
05/16/19
How to translate "being a"?
I'm aware German doesn't have a gerund like the English language does, so I was just wondering how you could translate "being a" as in "being a vegetarian may cause health problems"?
Would "als"...
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German
05/16/19
Do all nouns from verbs nominalized by the suffix "-ung" have a female gender?
By suffixing verbs with *"-ung"* we can build nouns, e.g.:
> prüfen - Prüfung
meinen - Meinung
richten - Richtung
All those nouns seem to have a female gender. Is that...
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German
05/16/19
“Gehen” with genitive?
I saw this in _Der treffende Ausdruck_:
> Die Nachbarin grüßte ihn kurz und ging ihres Weges, aber der Kollege unterhielt sich mit ihm, während sie auf den Bus...
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