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| Dagane Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4512 days ago 259 posts - 324 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2, Galician Studies: German Studies: Czech | Message 49 of 198 22 January 2013 at 5:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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I work with three colours (blue, red and black) to simulate genders. I don't know if that's enough for you. Apart from it (of course), I utter my lists of vocabulary aloud without omitting the gender, which is a non-stupid habit to get used to it.
By the way, good luck with the exam! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4874 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 50 of 198 24 January 2013 at 10:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the kind words :)
I am mostly exam free now. One of mine were postponed by snow, but I still got 11/12 days left before that, which means that I'm going to study languages more, while still revising (somewhat less intensely) for the remaing examination. I can understand German rather well, it seems. I understand most of the stuff this guy says (almost only familiar words): (Let's play video of one of my favourite video games) Linky It might be because the context is familiar, but still... This means that I'm mostly going to practice Japanese listening, I think. Also, armed with Google Translate, I ventured into Cyberrussia (someone opened a portal for me) and found all Harry Potter books in Japanese as text files. :D This let me open them in Word, where I can mark every interesting n+1 sentence, and later pick them up and enter them into Anki. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4874 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 51 of 198 25 January 2013 at 11:59am | IP Logged | ||
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German related question incoming:
Does adding a -d to the verb infinitive make it an adjective related to that verb? Like bekündigen -> bekündigend? (If you know Norwegian, is it the same as (verb) [e]nde?) Edited by stifa on 25 January 2013 at 11:59am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4845 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 52 of 198 26 January 2013 at 11:04am | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, by adding a -d to the infinitive you form the present participle, which can be treated like an adjective.
gehen --> gehend (Der gehende Mann --> The walking man) 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4874 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 53 of 198 26 January 2013 at 12:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you, Josquin! :D
That makes a lot of sense, since I often don't find the -d forms in any dictionaries. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Dagane Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4512 days ago 259 posts - 324 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2, Galician Studies: German Studies: Czech | Message 54 of 198 26 January 2013 at 1:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, it's very useful. Can we do that with most of the verbs, or are there some rules?
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| sans-serif Tetraglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4560 days ago 298 posts - 470 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, German, Swedish Studies: Danish | Message 55 of 198 26 January 2013 at 2:10pm | IP Logged | ||
Do you know the relevant grammar rules? My preferred method—and I realize a lot of people would hate this approach—is to learn the rules by heart, and then transform that knowledge into an intuitive "Sprachgefühl" by reading and listening. Seeing the rules in action slowly but surely reinforces the correct patterns, and after a while it should become quite easy to reproduce most of them, though not at lightning speed. The most elusive grammar items might require some extra attention, typically in the form of drills or raw memorization. The final step is turning all these correct hunches into fluent output by speaking and writing a lot. Try it out if it sounds like something you might enjoy. @Dagane: The only exceptions I can think of are the verbs 'sein' and 'tun' whose Partizip I forms are 'seiend' and 'tuend', respectively. The rule should work for all verbs ending in -en, I think. Edited by sans-serif on 26 January 2013 at 2:32pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4845 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 56 of 198 26 January 2013 at 2:19pm | IP Logged | ||
The rule is the same for all verbs: Simply add a -d to the infinitive and you get the present participle. If you use it as an adjective you have to add the adjective case endings. der lächelnde Mann, des lächelnden Mannes, dem lächelnden Mann, den lächelnden Mann, usw. EDIT: I just noticed that "sein" is a little exception from the rule. Here the present participle is "seiend". Edited by Josquin on 26 January 2013 at 2:21pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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