Rule of orthography

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agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 53 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Help your uncle Jack off a horse

SurfinBird@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 2y

Lets eat Grandma

guriinii@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 2y (7 replies)

How do you tell the difference when spoken?

Pancito@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Emphasis on different parts and context.

brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y

can germans be all lowkey and cool and disable their autocaps

would sam altman never survive in germany

Hugohase@kbin.social · 29 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Pronunciation, context and most importantly most of these sentences wouldn't be used like that. (Except for "die spinnen", i say that probably daily)

lunarul@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

for "die spinnen", i say that probably daily

Lots of spiders where you live?

itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 2y

Austr(al)ia

lugal@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 2y

Good question! Sometimes it's stress but sometimes just context

fneu@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 2y

Context. In the first two examples both sentences sound exactly the same, but it has never been a problem.

In some examples I‘d maybe expect stronger emphasis on the noun. ‚Sucht‘ (short u) vs ‚sucht‘ (long u) from the last example are pronounced very differently.

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 28 pts · 2y (2 replies)

A "warm person" is a homosexual in German.

SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Aww, that’s sweet. The Germans are a kind and open hearted people.

DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe · 2 pts · 2y

Just don't ask how warm between 1937 and 1945.

Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Duolingo has yet to enforce these capitalization rules. Boy, it is going to get difficult in later stages.

flames5123@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y (1 reply)

It’s just simply nouns that are capitalized. It’s not crazy at all, and I learned that in Duolingo years ago in the first few courses.

DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe · 1 pts · 2y

Yeah, it's basically a day one fact...

djsoren19@yiffit.net · 21 pts · 2y (3 replies)

for some reason I thought these were lyrics to a German death metal song being translated to English.

lemmyman@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Du

SalsaGal@programming.dev · 4 pts · 2y

Du hast

nxdefiant@startrek.website · 4 pts · 2y

I thought they were the same tune with the traditional lyrics for both countries listed.

Wilzax@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y (5 replies)

„Wir fahren die Kinder um“ 😇
„Wir fahren die Kinder um“ 😈

itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Das ist aber grammatikalisch nicht korrekt, es wäre

„Wir umfahren die Kinder“ 😇 „Wir fahren die Kinder um“ 👿

Besser wäre z.B.:

„Wir werden die Kinder umfahren“

Wilzax@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Sie haben Recht. Ich lerne noch Deutsch, deshalb vergesse ich manchmal die richtige trennbare Verbformen. Danke für Ihre Korrektur

itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Das ist aber auch ein besonders fieser Fall. Dein Deutsch ist schon echt gut

DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

You didn't hear their accent, it's terrible.

Wilzax@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

You aren't wrong

Subtlysubtle@sffa.community · 5 pts · 2y

I thought this was poetry

drolex@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 2y

Et ma blême araignée, ogre illogique et las,

Aimable, aime à régner au gris logis qu'elle a.

aluminium@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Its nonsense because in most of these examples at least one is gobbledygook , like something no normal person would actually say or write.

Also with context you 95% of time know whats ment. Same in every other lanuage.

criticon@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

What's the difference in the 2nd? Don't the English transitions mean the same?

PaigePalisade@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Flee means to escape, flea is a parasitic insect

criticon@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y

Lol I missed a letter, yhx!