Multilingual and Polyglot Wannabee Thread! MK I

Any questions? In Italian the subjunctive is used a lot more

Est-ce que quelqu'un sait où je peux trouver un explication du subjonctif en Français? Ma professeure a dit que nous devons savoir seulement les examples mais moi, je veux apprendre à faire la grammaire!

Schrecklich, oder?

Schrecklich, oder?

Not at the moment! Yeah, I've seen the Italian subjunctive, I actually stuck to the examples that time! To be honest I didn't know where to use it so just stuck in a 'credo che sia...' every so often, it seemed so work

Ja wohl

(I'm not entirely sure about this phrase but from what I know I felt this was suitable situation, although it may give unintended connotations of submissiveness)

Have you not done it in Italian? The subjunctive is quite basic in Italian, n'est-ce pas? :s

Non è molto difficile
compare
Non credo che sia molto difficile.

A lot of the rules are transferable between Italian and French in the subjunctive, but there are major exceptions!:

In Italian, you use the subjunctive after 'I think that', 'I don't think that', and 'Do you think that..?'

Credo che sia piccolo, Non credo che sia piccolo, Credi che sia piccolo?

In French it's the same, except for 'I think that', which is normal:

Je pense qu'il est petit BUT Je ne pense pas qu'il soit petit, est-ce que tu penses qu'il soit petit?

If in doubt, use this: http://french.about.com/library/verb/bl-subjunctivator.htm

Here is a bit more to twist your mind. The number 999,999 written out in Finnish

For reference, here is the number in English: Nine hundred ninety nine thousand, nice hundred ninety nine.

Yhdeksänsataa yhdeksänkymmentä yhdeksän tuhatta, yhdeksänsataa yhdeksänkymmentä yhdeksän.

I have just added Finnish to my list of Languages That Are Too Hard For Me To Learn


Languages on the list include Arabic, Chinese and Japanese.

I hate how those three are on my list

I know the Arabic alphabet though, and I can "read it"

It has what connotations?

Excuse me while I have a self-indulgent moment of panic about my ignorance of German. And while I check all German textbooks within a 5 metre radius.

I have done it in Italian, but we just used set examples!! I was just wondering how to conjugate it and stuff in French. I'm also not really sure where to put it- I know what it's meant to express but I can never get my head around it!!

I heard somewhere (on a forum) that it had connotations of submissiveness, and was as such used in the military, etc.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jawohl
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1915451

It might actually not have that meaning in two words

Est-ce que tu as l'intention de apprendre la langue arabe en été?

Oh, ja!

When I watch Stargate SG1 dubbed into German, the military characters sometimes say Jawohl to orders they don't like, and have just protested to!

What do you mean?

To conjugate:

Take the ils form in the present tense (eg parlent), take off the -ent (parl), and add:

Je: -e
Tu: -es
Il: -e
Nous: -ions
Vous: -iez
Ils: -ent

So for ir verbs:

finir - finissent - finniss:

Je finisse
Tu finisses
Il finisse
Nous finissions
Vous finissiez
Ils finissent

Exceptions:

Être - sois, sois, soit, soyons, soyez, soient
Avoir - aie, aies, ait, ayons, ayez, aient
Faire - fasse, fasses, fasse, fassions, fassiez, fassent
Savoir - sache, saches, sache, sachions, sachiez, sachent
Pouvoir - puisse etc
Vouloir - veuille etc
Aller - aille etc

That's all I can remember atm...

ERMAHGERD I NEVER THOUGHT OF WATCHING SG1 IN GERMAN I LOVE THAT SHOW

(I literally have my Sky box set to record every episode aired daily on Sky1 )

Viel zu wenige Staffeln werden auf Deutsch synchronisiert.

Aber einige Staffeln waren.

Look on Amazon.co.uk for boxsets that say they have English and German. And then look on Amazon.de for the remaining series.