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Can I have your assistance please? Is there anything wrong with the following sentence: Der mutige Feuerwehrmann, der die Familie im brennenden Haus auf der Straße in der Nähe von Alexanderplatz rettete, verklagte die Stadt wegen schlechter Arbeitsbedingungen und gewann. I'm looking at especially the "im brennenden Haus auf der Straße in der Nähe von Alexanderplatz" part... Danke im voraus! |
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quote un-quote "hitler is a god" your welcome. |
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haha |
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twat |
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Comeing from a fat kid avatar, im deeply hurt. let me translate "twat" to german...uhummmm... "Speisker zumne comersrstoaph err dtweeblekat" |
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you are being a sort of racist |
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i found one mistake: "in der Nähe !vom! Alexanderplatz" also that part youre looking especially at is a bit complicated. Maybe people would add commas in there too like "...haus, auf der Straße, in der Nähe..." what do you need this for? is this a trick to find germans on the board? when will the voices in my head stop talking? |
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it's to do with a project i'm doing on nested relative clauses in german. I'd add commas there but it might interfere with the comprehension of the sentence.. long story :) thanks for the help! |
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If you can add 6 words (no more, no less) to this sentence, without adding any more relative clauses or changing the meaning too much, i'd be forever in your debt. been trying to think of adjectives, etc, to add for a few hours now and i'm coming up with nothing. Ein Hund, dessen Fell von Flöhen befallen ist, die auch für Menschen gefährlich sind, sollte sofort mit Insektiziden behandelt werden. |
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an der Straße aus dem Haus maybe and i'm not sure with the past tense.... gerettet hatte... there's also a lot of prepositions: im/an/vom, looks nicer when it's less of them. everyone *loves* genitive, make it: nahe des Alex. der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod. |
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I should change it to "an der Straße" then? Is there any difference in meaning? I'd use the genitive there but I need to keep the word count at 26 words :) |
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or even better: unweit des Alex. the other one: sollte möglichst sofort Menschen überaus gefährlich ..? |
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jesus what is this test? lol Der mutige Feuerwehrmann, der die Familie aus dem brennenden Haus an der Straße unweit des Alexanderplatz rettete, verklagte die Stadt wegen schlechter Arbeitsbedingungen und gewann letztendlich (or something). |
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i'll let you do it when it's finished, if you wish :) if you're interested, send us an email |
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Alexanderplatz is pretty nice. I want to go back to Germany. |
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berlin is a very nice city, i want to go back there too |
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Berlin's awesome, listening to Heroes (side B) while walking down the Eastside Gallery (what's left of the Berlin Wall) was absolutely amazing. |
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cant believe i havent ever been to berlin! its just 600 km but i wouldnt wanna go alone... |
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it's easily the greatest city i've ever visited. simply stunning. moving there after college. |
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DO IT! any chance i can email you something to look over? |
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"nested relative clauses in german." Would it be too big a bother if I asked you to elaborate slightly? |
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Stuff like this - Die Wohnung in der exclusiven Umgebung, in der der alte Henry Murphy, dessen streitlustige Frau ihn verachtete, seine Musik aufnahm, ist der Ort seiner wöchentlichen Cocktail-Party. EN: The apartment in the exclusive area in which old Henry Murphy whose belligerent wife despises him recorded his music is the location of this week's cocktail-party You can add commas in English in order to make it more legible, but I left them out to stress the point. Even in German, it can be very difficult to quickly comprehend and interpret such sentences, so i'm testing the correlation between the level of nesting and the rate and quality of comprehension. |
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It also sometimes adds a deal of ambiguity to it.. In both the english and german versions of that sentence, it is impossible to know whether Henry Murphy recorded his music in the apartment where the cocktail party is happening, or in the area in which this apartment is found. |
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Wer ficken will muß freundlich sein. |
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As far as I know, Kafka did some fancy sentence work in German.. at least, he has some pretty fancy sentences in the Norwegian translations, but then Norwegian and German are quite alike in many ways, so it's probably possible to translate the entire structure of the sentence in a way that you can't do when you're translating it to English. Der Proceß and Die Verwandlung should contain such sentences. The other books too, probably, but it's been a while since I read them all... |
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I worked in Dusseldorf, nice prossies, and you didn't need a word of German, there's service for you. |
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