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I love noticing homonyms randomly:

löschen (verb, löschte, hat gelöscht) means to delete (a file, a message, ...) but also to put out a fire (-> ein Feuer/einen Brand löschen)

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I love noticing homonyms randomly:

löschen (verb, löschte, hat gelöscht) means to delete (a file, a message, ...) but also to put out a fire (-> ein Feuer/einen Brand löschen)

#german #deutsch #learning german #langblr #german language #german langblr

i read your post about how you find german mistakes beautiful and how they reflect on the person's understanding of the language at their level and i can't stop thinking about it, this is such a lovely way to put it

i noticed that as a non-native german speaker i can often figure out much faster what other foreigners are trying to say, either because i remember struggling to find a fitting word and just saying one with similar meaning hoping it would make sense or because you get very good at guessing based on the context when you have limited vocabulary, like how my italian boss said "der Raum zum Wechseln" and i instantly got it even though that's not how you would usually say "changing" when talking about changing clothes, or how i can understand what my mom is trying to say in german even when it would not make sense in either of the languages because i somehow know how she got there, i know the meaning she's trying to convey even if the words themselves are not quite right for it, which is fascinating to think about

also!! a "mistake" i am quite fond of is when people translate a phrase directly from their native language, a girl in my class once said we should "das Licht öffnen" because that's one way of saying it in her native vietnamese

i wonder how often i have said something like that and not realized it, i still catch myself referring to words like "Hose" and "Schere" in the plural when i don't mean to because there's no singular for them in my language so that's how i think of them. the fact that these nouns are somehow always feminine and thus actually very similar to their plural form is NOT helping lmao

same case for grammatical gender which i find SO interesting. i remember watching videos about how the language we speak changes the way we think and how grammatical gender influences the way we view animals and inanimate objects

like i can say "der Kopf" correctly and then immedately refer to it with "sie" in the next sentence if i'm not paying attention. i think it's because i know the rules as i memorized them (Artikel + noun), but when i think of an actual head first thing that comes to my mind is the feminine form, regardless of the word i'm using, as if in my mind the object itself was feminine and not the word

wow sorry for the rant i just love languages i love communicating with different people and i love german! such a fun and beautiful language

love it all! thank you for the rant!!!! languages (learning) and mistakes are beautiful 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

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"Please keep window closed, else the pigeons will come in!"

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schillers-apfel

Ich liebe alliterationen wenn ich ein Stilmittel heiraten könnte dann wären es alliterationen

recherchen-und-archiv

Man kann ja über die deutsche Literatur sagen was man will aber Märchen haben schon sehr damit gekocht, dass der standard Abschlussatz "Und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, dann leben sie noch heute." geworden ist. Großartige Anreihung von Worten. Ja, I guess wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, dann leben sie noch heute. Kann man nichts gegen sagen. Waren sie glücklich bis ans Ende ihrer Tage? Wer weiß! Aber solange sie nicht gestorben sind dann leben sie noch. Logischer Rückschluss oder so.

dragoncarrion

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dragoncarrion

They're taking over.

german-enthusiast

why is the beak its own separate face with such a specific heartbreaking expression??

German Song: Troubadour

Ich habe die letzten Wochen auf den Release dieses Lieds gewartet! (Lyrics and word help (for italicized words) under the cut)

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worlds-leading-gnome-expert

So should i tell them this is... not a great name?

particularlythirstydog

guys i was in german class and we were talking about environmentalism and the environment

so we were talking about this thing called “miku plastics” and i kept googling it and trying to figure out what the fuck that means

turns out i just horribly misunderstood the word “Mikroplastik”

baby-harpseal

always so funny to me how Kai is considered a stylish unisex/gender-neutral name in English. like that's a northern German man in his mid 60s to me.

baby-harpseal

who i picture when somebody tells me their they/them polyamorous lover now goes by Kai:

drizzledrawings

I have multiple dead horses that I beat regularly

translatingpoststogerman

nieselzeichnungen

Ich habe mehrere tote pferde die ich regelmäßig schlage

i-also-translate-into-lithuanian

apšlapępiešiniai

Aš turiu daugelį negyvų žirgų kuriuos tikrai dažnai mušu

German Song: Linien

Here's a new German song by two collaborating artists, Sinu and Haller! 🎶🎵

The song Linien (engl.: lines) addresses family dynamics, generational trauma and breaking the cycle.

Grammatically, it's rather easy to understand, but there is a couple words and expressions that might trip up German learners.

If you want to do more than listen, I've created a free document with the lyrics, vocab help and writing exercises - you can find it here: TTF Drive

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You said you like German mistakes so as a learner I thought I’d share one I once made

I was doing an English to German translation and I can’t remember the exact sentence but it was something like ‘We visited every other weekend to help him and bring him home.” And basically I repeated my ‘um’ for the ‘um zu’ clause and essentially ended the sentence with ‘um ihn nach Hause umzubringen’

On the last day of my grammar class, my tutor said we should get into groups and write cautionary short stories together. My group was told to write about ‘eine Studentin’ they decided the ‘cautionary’ part would be about learning your grammar correctly. I shared this particular grammar mistake and the story then became about a student who got arrested for murder because of this exact mistake.

I love this!! How cool that you got to integreate that mistake in a creative story, what a turnaround! The mistake that is seared into my brain was at thanksgiving dinner in my exchange year in Canada. I was asked whether I like baking, after which I went on a little ramble about liking baking very much but with being fructose intolerant I feel very limited in what I can bake blablabla, eventually the increasingly confused look of the asker made me stop and he said "Sorry, I asked whether you like bacon"

Oh well, we had a laugh about it (mine with a lot of embarassement) and nowadays I think it's very funny - they all probably don't remember.

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obsob

on holiday rn and there are these MASSIVE fucking bugs and theyre called. well. well theyre called

german-enthusiast

The German name is simply "Feldmaikäfer" (lit. field-may-beetle)

but it made me think about how where in English animals are often called "Common XYZ", we say "Gemeine/r ABC".

It comes from "allgemein" and also denotes that it is the most common, but the adjective "gemein" in non-biological contexts is usually used/read as as "mean"

the mean cockchafer

teachablr-moment

@german-enthusiast is that mean as in average, i.e. "arithmetic mean"? Or is gemein used like "why is she so mean to me?

german-enthusiast

"gemein" has multiple meanings like the english "mean" does, though it never denotes a mathematical average or mean (that would be "der Durchschnitt" or "der Mittelwert"

The meanings of "gemein" (source) a) unfriendly, unfair, mean - a child might tell their parent after school "Markus war heute gemein zu mir" - this is the most common use case

b) (from "allgemein") general, generic, universal, ... - mostly seen in biologial names, otherwise it is rather archaic: "der gemeine Maikäfer, der gemeine Löwenzahn, ..." c) (from "gemeinsam") together - usually in the phrase "etw. mit jemandem gemein haben" to have sth. in common with sb: "Wir haben vieles gemein, zum Beispiel unsere Liebe für den gemeinen Maikäfer"

Hope this helps!

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