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Christianmonkey · Apr 6, 2005

How does one form the partitive in German?

Ainuhina · Apr 7, 2005

*thinking* can't remember now what that was but can look it up at home......

soda · Apr 7, 2005

gosh... and I thought I know some german... but this question overtaxes me...

maybe this helps?
http://www.canoo.net/services/Controller?dispatch=inflection&input=partitiv&features=(Cat+V)&lang=en

Bonifatius · Apr 14, 2005

Christianmonkey said:
How does one form the partitive in German?

You mean a genetivus partitivus like "I ate two thirds of the cake"?

In German: Ich aß zwei Drittel des Kuchens.

Generally you have to use Genetive forms to form a partitive.

Having said that I have to admit that this has begun to change. More and more people in Germany use the dative instead of the genetive now to indicate the partitive: They say "I aß drei Stücke von dem Kuchen" instead of "des Kuchens".

A very popular book in Germany dealing with language and good style therefore has the title: "Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod"

Viele Grüße
Bonifatius

soda · Apr 14, 2005

Bonifatius said:
A very popular book in Germany dealing with language and good style therefore has the title: "Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod"
Viele Grüße Bonifatius

Hei, das Buch hab' ich mir eben bei amazon bestellt! hoffe es kommt morgen!

Just ordered the book!

Bonifatius · Apr 15, 2005

soda said:
Hei, das Buch hab' ich mir eben bei amazon bestellt! hoffe es kommt morgen!

Just ordered the book!

Moin,

das sind die "Zwiebelfisch-Kolumnen" aus dem Spiegel, aber Du wirst das schon wissen ...

Viel Spaß beim Lesen!

Gruß
Boni

soda · Apr 15, 2005

ja, hab einige kolumnen im internet gelesen (da ich sonst selten magazine wie den spiegel lese) und die haben mir wirklich gefallen. deshalb das buch. hab mir sogar überlegt ob dich die hör-cd kaufen soll, mich dann aber fürs buch entschieden.
(wobei bastian sick meinen schreibstyle nicht gutheissen würde, da ich alles klein schreibe, und andere faux-pas drin hab!)

Christianmonkey · Apr 23, 2005

I don't know much German, but I noticed you used "faux-pas", Soda. I didn't know German used that word too.

Links234 · Apr 23, 2005

German grammar makes my brain hurt. Especially the der/die/das thing. Huh?

Ainuhina · Apr 24, 2005

yep....English is a lot easier...they just have one article

Firefairy · Apr 25, 2005

Hi Ainuhina,

just wanted to say 'Hello'. Hope you are well and have fun at the university. Just sitting in school. I have just given a paper (Referat) about 'Elizabeth'. Was wicked! I played the jugde (Richter) and I had to speak a dialogue. In the following lesson I will have a German test, but I think I have learnt enough to write a 'A' or 'B'.
Slater, Fey

Firefairy · Apr 25, 2005

Elisabeth (Sisi) = österreichische Kaiserin

soda · Apr 25, 2005

Christianmonkey said:
I don't know much German, but I noticed you used "faux-pas", Soda. I didn't know German used that word too.

yes, we have lots of words from other languages. especially here in switzerland. we even use some french words that a german would not use (trottoir, merci, bijou,..). some english words are already so common that we don't even know what it used to be in german; we call them "Anglizismen".

Ainuhina · Apr 25, 2005

@Firefairy

Hi!!!

know that Elisabeth is Sissi (there's a musical about her called Elisabeth)....

Have so far had a lot of fun here at Uni....started at 12 - so could sleep long - and now I'll have literature ....and then sociolinguistics (where we learn all the stuff about different English dialects and accents)...

By the way: Referat = Report or Talk - not paper (which means schriftliche Arbeit)

Wish you all the best for the test....
be blessed and have a nice day

see you on WE....
Maggi

@ soda:

hier in Österreich gibt es auch einen Haufen Anglizismen....die meisten älteren Leute haben was dagegen (ich auch - find es einfach nicht OK wenn wir englische Wörter verwenden wo wir doch auch das deutsche Wort sagen könnten)....

ich find es OK wenn es ein Fachausdruck ist, für den es kein Deutsches Wort gibt, aber sonst bin ich für Deutsch.....

JFreak89 · Apr 26, 2005

Yeh, i learn German at school, it is actually very interesting reading the Bible in German.
it sounds so much nicer.

And i agree, english is so much easier without the Der/Die/Das

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