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I don't get this sentence at all: "das ist so schon hart genug, und erfordert, um's zu überstehen". I don't quite understand what is being needed (erfordert) here. (Taken from song lyrics, by the way.)

I don't get this sentence at all: "das ist so schon hart genug, und erfordert, um's zu überstehen". I don't quite understand what is being needed (erfordert) here. (Taken from song lyrics, by the way.)

Hi generalebriety,
is it by chance from "Wir sind allein" by Letzte Instanz?

the two following lines tell you what's needed.

So viel Wärme, so viel Kraft
die kein Mensch alleine hat."

Ich wünsche (ich will "dir" sagen aber ich weiß nicht, weswegen ich Dativ benutzen will ) dir/dich frohe Weihnachten auch und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr!

Hi guys, I only just started self-teaching German

I can't write anything yet, but I hope I will improve in time!

Ich auch ... aber laut Servicekraft der Fluggesellschaft sollte das heute Abend klappen, sofern es nicht plötzlich noch unerwartet erneut schneit...

Good luck.

I've been looking at the verb: sich kümmern

Would:
I look after myself be: Ich kümmere mich um

Danke.

I'm having trouble with colours lol, for example I don't know when to use "rot", "rote", "rotes"

I'm having trouble with colours lol, for example I don't know when to use "rot", "rote", "rotes"

If I have made mistakes please tell me. I don't really understand the "sich" in verbs, could you explain this to me in a clear way?

In this case, the verb "to look after (+ object/person)" is "sich kümmern um (+ object/person in accusative case)", and there's no particular logical reason that that "sich" is there, but it is there and you have to keep it there. So: "ich kümmere mich (um...)", "du kümmerst dich", etc.

(The "sich" can also be dative with some verbs, but that's rare and it'll normally be obvious, so don't worry about that!)

I believe that Germans use the reflexive a lot more than we do so here they have it in a scenario, we english would not use it in.

This isn't just a trait of colours, it's a feature of all adjectives. If the adjective is predicative (e.g. "the jumper is red", "I painted the car green", "it turned blue[noparse]")[/noparse], you don't add an ending, so it would be "rot", "grün", "blau". If the adjective is attributive ("the red jumper", "a green car", "blue beer[noparse]")[/noparse], it takes an ending based on several things, including the words around it and the case/gender/number of the noun after it. I won't post the details, but there's a page I wrote on the wiki on adjective endings here. If you've just started learning German, I don't recommend you try to get to grips with this yet, but keep it in the back of your mind.

No, you've left out the object. It would be "ich kümmere mich um mich selbst". But you wouldn't normally say that.

No, the verb is "sich kümmern", so it should always be "ich kümmere mich um X". In this case it would be "ich kümmere mich um meinen Freund" - "meinen" because the object has to be in the accusative form.

Sorry, wrong again. "Ich kümmere mich um ihn".


It's not actually that complicated. Unless you have an inversion, all bits of the verb remain in place: it's always "[subject] [corresponding form of kümmern] [reflexive pronoun which corresponds to the subject*] um [object in the accusative]". Always make sure that the reflexive pronoun matches the subject and don't forget that it needs an (accusative) object as well. Quite straightforward, really.

*I.e. "mich" for 1st person singular, "dich" for 2nd person singular, "sich" for 3rd person singular and plural, "uns" for 1st person plural, "euch" for 2nd person plural.