Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5885 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin
| Message 89 of 261 17 August 2012 at 3:32pm | IP Logged |
Prepositions are often hard and I should study them to improve my English texts. Anyway, here is a picture of German prepositions related to geography and movement.
Edited by Flarioca on 17 August 2012 at 3:36pm
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Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5885 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin
| Message 90 of 261 25 August 2012 at 4:04pm | IP Logged |
New data appear about the very interesting and important subject on the origin of Indoeuropean. Read here the Zeit Online article about it.
I'll read the paper, which has been published on Science Magazine, to see if they really have some new strong evidence for their Anatolian Origin theory.
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Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5885 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin
| Message 91 of 261 26 August 2012 at 3:36pm | IP Logged |
"Das ist ein kleiner Schritt für einen Menschen, aber ein großer Sprung für die Menschheit"
Rest in peace, Neil Armstrong. In spite of Cold War and Moon Race, Neil Armstrong was one of my few Childhood Heros and will remain respected by me forever.
The above very famous phrase is also a good exemple of how this kind of sentences might be helpfull in the study of a language. Adjectives declensions, n-word declension, masculine -ung word exception, all in a single expression.
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montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4831 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh
| Message 92 of 261 26 August 2012 at 6:52pm | IP Logged |
Great idea. Some of the famous phrases of John F Kennedy would be good too:
"And so my fellow Americans; ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can
do for your country"
I couldn't quickly find a native translation though, and I wouldn't like to publicly
venture my own unidiomatic one :)
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Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4847 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian
| Message 93 of 261 26 August 2012 at 7:15pm | IP Logged |
Flarioca wrote:
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"Sprung" is formed by ablaut from "springen" (similarly to "Gang" from "gehen" or "Zug" from "ziehen") and doesn't contain the suffix -ung, so this is no exception to the rule. All nouns with the suffix -ung are by all means feminine!
Edited by Josquin on 26 August 2012 at 7:25pm
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Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5885 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin
| Message 94 of 261 26 August 2012 at 7:55pm | IP Logged |
Josquin wrote:
Flarioca wrote:
masculine -ung word exception |
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"Sprung" is formed by ablaut from "springen" (similarly to "Gang" from "gehen" or "Zug" from "ziehen") and doesn't contain the suffix -ung, so this is no exception to the rule. All nouns with the suffix -ung are by all means feminine! |
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Thanks a lot, Josquin!!
I thought that der Sprung, der Vorsprung, der Ursprung, der Eisprung, der Aufschwung, der Schwung would be exceptions to the "-ung feminine rule".
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Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5885 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin
| Message 95 of 261 26 August 2012 at 11:10pm | IP Logged |
montmorency wrote:
Great idea. Some of the famous phrases of John F Kennedy would be good too:
"And so my fellow Americans; ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can
do for your country"
I couldn't quickly find a native translation though, and I wouldn't like to publicly
venture my own unidiomatic one :) |
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Maybe in this site we could find it, but John Kennedy's phrases are locked.
Anyway, Socrates said: "Heirate oder heirate nicht. Du wirst beides bereuen." My wife doesn't like to learn languages, it means that I'm safe :-))
Edited by Flarioca on 26 August 2012 at 11:11pm
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ummagumma Senior Member IrelandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5259 days ago 217 posts - 241 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German
| Message 96 of 261 29 August 2012 at 12:16pm | IP Logged |
Armstrong war ein gewöhnlicher Mensch, der ein wicklick Außergewöhnliches erreicht hat.
Es ist anregend, von einigen deiner Fortschritte und Erfolge zu lesen. Wir sind in
demselben Team, aber unsere Methoden sind komplett verschieden. Du bist recht ordentlich
und kennst schon viel Grammatik. Respekt!
Edited by ummagumma on 30 August 2012 at 8:29am
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