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generalebriety

TSR meet in Berlin? :angel:

Couple of small corrections:
One small correction. :wink:

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Reply 1222

wtid

Ooo snazzy, someones paid for their name to be green :wink:

Yes, although that someone wasn't me, actually; a lovely person donated some of their hard-earned PS-helper riches to me, which I thought was really nice. :wink:

Reply 1223

OP

hobnob

One small correction. :wink:

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Ah, crap - the one mistake I've been going out of my way to avoid! :redface:

Thanks.

Reply 1224

Profesh

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wtid

how do you say "he lived in a..." :-S What tense is that? Surely not the past? The sentence is "He lived in an extremely nice home.." but don't tell me the rest please, I want to try and do it myself. I just don't know about that tense, I think. It's not just "He has in an extremely nice home lived", is it?

Er wohnt in einem ganz [nice] Haus?

Reply 1225

Gooner

Profesh

Er wohnt in einem ganz [nice] Haus?

'Ganz' doesn't quite do 'extremely' justice :wink:

Reply 1226

Profesh

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gooner1592

'Ganz' doesn't quite do 'extremely' justice :wink:

I always used to equate 'ganz' with 'exceedingly'; but then, I've not studied German (formally or otherwise) for the better part of four years.

Reply 1227

Gooner

Profesh

I always used to equate 'ganz' with 'exceedingly'; but then, I've not studied German (formally or otherwise) for the better part of four years.

Nope. It's got pretty much the same meaning as 'ziemlich' which means 'quite' :smile:

Reply 1228

gooner1592

Nope. It's got pretty much the same meaning as 'ziemlich' which means 'quite' :smile:

It means something along the lines of 'quite', 'very', 'pretty' (used as an adverb).
'Extremely' or 'exceedingly' I'd probably render as 'ausgesprochen', 'außergewöhnlich' or 'extrem' (this doesn't work in every context, though).

'Nice' can be a really tricky word to translate, though...

Reply 1229

wtid

Ok, ich werde den Thread ins Leben rufen!

Morgen gehe ich nach London :biggrin:

Ich vermisse mein vegetarisches Restaurant! Hmmm ich habe kein mehr zu sagen.

Habt alle ein gutes Wochenende! <--with help from my gf :redface:

I haven't learnt the imperative yet, I wouldn't have even known it WAS imperative.

Reply 1230

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wtid

Ok, ich werde den Thread ins Leben rufen!

Morgen gehe ich nach London :biggrin:

Ich vermisse mein vegetarisches Restaurant! Hmmm ich habe kein mehr zu sagen.

Habt alle ein gutes Wochenende! <--with help from my gf :redface:

I haven't learnt the imperative yet, I wouldn't have even known it WAS imperative.

"Habt"? Really? Hmm...

Na ja. Ich hoffe, du hast Spaß. :smile:

Ich persönlich fahre morgen nach Manchester, um eine Freundin von mir zu besuchen. :smile:

Reply 1231

Du auch.

Ich fahre Montag nach Hause, aber ich habe noch nicht mal angefangen, meine Koffer zu packen... :s-smilie:

Reply 1232

generalebriety

"Habt"? Really? Hmm...

Yes, that's correct. Imperative plural looks identical to the second person plural.

Reply 1233

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hobnob

Yes, that's correct. Imperative plural looks identical to the second person plural.

Yep, but I've never heard that construction, "ein gutes Wochenende haben". I always think it should be verbringen or something.

Reply 1234

generalebriety

*cough*

(Ein Tippfehler, natürlich, aber trotzdem... :p:

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Woher willst du denn bitte wissen, daß ich nur einen Koffer habe? :wink:

Hmm, genaugenommen habe ich wirklich nur einen, aber "seine Koffer packen" ist eine Art Redewendung.

Reply 1235

generalebriety

Yep, but I've never heard that construction, "ein gutes Wochenende haben". I always think it should be verbringen or something.

"Verbringt ein gutes Wochenende"?? That doesn't really sound right to me. :s-smilie:

"Habt" is a bit of an anglicism, but at least it's an anglicism that's fairly common...

Reply 1236

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hobnob

Woher willst du denn bitte wissen, daß ich nur einen Koffer habe? :wink:

Hmm, genaugenommen habe ich wirklich nur einen, aber "seine Koffer packen" ist eine Art Redewendung.

Yeah yeah. :wink:

Not having a good German day, it seems. :wink:

Well, while I'm having a bad day, I might as well ask the stupid question I've been meaning to ask for a while. How do you use 'sagen' in the perfect tense? Which of these is right?

1. Er hat gesagt, "nein, bevor du ausgehst, musst du deine Hausaufgaben machen".
2. Er hat "nein, bevor du ausgehst, musst du deine Hausaufgaben machen" gesagt.

Both sound stupid. :redface:

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