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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6602 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 9 of 24 20 March 2014 at 9:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Und der Torwart scheißt sich in die Hose.
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| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4087 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 10 of 24 22 March 2014 at 10:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ich trinke eine Cola zu einer Wurst.
Ich esse eine Wurst, dazu trinke ich eine cola. I eat a Wurst, with it I drink a cola. Edited by Gemuse on 22 March 2014 at 10:41pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4087 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 11 of 24 25 March 2014 at 8:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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For a fruit juice:
Reich an natürlichem Vitamin C. The "an" was a surprise. Edited by Gemuse on 25 March 2014 at 8:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4087 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 12 of 24 27 March 2014 at 1:37am | IP Logged | ||
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Ich warte auf die Schwester.
Hast du davon gehört? (of it/that) Edited by Gemuse on 27 March 2014 at 1:58am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4087 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 13 of 24 29 March 2014 at 1:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Ist der Campingplatz zu empfehlen?
"Can the camping place be recommended?" Ich schaue nach links. Q: Can we say: "Ich sehe nach links" ? Edited by Gemuse on 29 March 2014 at 1:57am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3912 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 14 of 24 29 March 2014 at 2:33am | IP Logged | ||
schauen = to look sehen = to see I'm not a native speaker (as you know, Gemuse) but I would interpret these as follows: Ich schaue nach links. - "I look to the left", as in I intentionally turn my head or eyes to look there. Ich sehe nach links. - "I see to the left", as in I am able to see what is to the left (of something or in general). Edited by soclydeza85 on 29 March 2014 at 2:38am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4087 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 15 of 24 29 March 2014 at 3:20am | IP Logged | ||
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soclydeza85 (I am learning Engish too), so in English, "look" has the connotation of
turning the head or doing something intenstional, while "I see to the left" has the connotation of as you mentioned? Is it wrong to say "See outside the window!"? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3912 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 16 of 24 29 March 2014 at 3:59am | IP Logged | ||
You would want to say "Look outside the window!" "Look" indicates focused attention on something, as in you are purposely trying to see something. In the case of your quote, you are telling something to purposely focus their eyes through the window. Another way to understand it, "look" puts the focus on what the subject is doing. "See" puts the focus on the object. "If you look out the window you can see a bird." I hope that makes sense. I'm on my phone so I'll give you a better explanation tomorrow when I'm at a computer. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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