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Zum hier oder mit zunehmen?
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schoenewaelder
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02 August 2013 at 2:35pm | IP Logged

mitsos wrote:

Maybe it was mit 'n' a contracted spoken form of mitnehmen sounding like
mit ihn.

Maybe in Neudeutsch:

Zum mit ihn = Zum eat in

Edited by schoenewaelder on 02 August 2013 at 2:36pm
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02 August 2013 at 5:44pm | IP Logged

schoenewaelder wrote:

Maybe in Neudeutsch:

Zum mit ihn = Zum eat in

Definitely not!

Obviously, this was an ungrammatical sentence uttered by a person with a low level in German. I wouldn't wast to much thought on it.
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02 August 2013 at 10:50pm | IP Logged

mitsos wrote:

And I dont think what the Turk said was ungrammatical because the German that had ordered the food repeated exactly the same as an answer.

Then it must have been "zum Mitnehmen" in the contracted form Bao already mentioned ("zum Mitnehm'"). A lot of unstressed syllables get muffled in colloquial speech.

Another prominent example is unstressed "du", which merges with the preceding verb: "Was willste?" - "'Ne Currywurst zum Mitnehm'". That is in Standard German: "Was willst du?" - "Eine Currywurst zum Mitnehmen".
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04 August 2013 at 1:40am | IP Logged

mitsos wrote:

Natives may not realize it but they leave out a lot and they take it for granted.That's not the case with foreigners.Detail counts.

I've actually heard more complaints about Germans switching to extra slow and clear speech for who they assume to be of low language skills, than about our mumbled colloquial forms. And usually, asking 'Häh?' ... pardon, I mean 'Entschuldigung, ich habe das nicht verstanden, könnten Sie das bitte etwas langsamer wiederholen?' helps. :)

Also, I don't think it's a good idea to expect people to talk like a textbook. What you learn from a textbook is the very core, after which many real life samples should follow to give you a better approximation of when and how a certain structure is used or abused.

Edited by Bao on 04 August 2013 at 7:06pm

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