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| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6392 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes  1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 1 of 9 08 May 2009 at 9:56am | IP Logged | ||
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What type of construct is "wird's" as in the phrase "Na dann wird's ja höchste Zeit!".
Is the apostrophe here used as a contraction of 'es'? Thanks in advance. Edited by zenmonkey on 08 May 2009 at 10:06am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5606 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 2 of 9 08 May 2009 at 10:06am | IP Logged | ||
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It's short for "wird es"
(The es in impersonal verb constructions oftens gets contracted to 's) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6392 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 3 of 9 08 May 2009 at 12:12pm | IP Logged | ||
Thanks, that was my guess, but I got stuck with it for a little while. I appreciate the confirmation. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6749 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 9 08 May 2009 at 5:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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Other very common examples are "Wie geht's?" and "Was gibt's?".
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| Stivi Triglot Newbie ItalyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5507 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes Speaks: Italian, German*, English | Message 5 of 9 20 May 2009 at 7:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Everybody,
my Name is Stephan and i'm searching English native speakers with who i can improve my englisch on skype. My native languages are German and Italian. Thanks! Stephan 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6392 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 6 of 9 20 May 2009 at 10:59pm | IP Logged | ||
Stivi, this really has nothing to do with the topic. Use the search function and "skype" away. You might look at www.sharedtalk.com 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jae Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5504 days ago 206 posts - 239 votes Speaks: English*, German, Latin Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, French | Message 7 of 9 24 May 2009 at 6:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yep, just "wird es," although when writing (papers, in newspapers, books, etc.) you don't use this. But in speaking it just gets mashed together just like when you say "I'll" or "I'm" you don't think about it.
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| rlf1810 Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6180 days ago 122 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English*, German, Slovak | Message 8 of 9 25 May 2009 at 7:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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I see you use Assimil German. :) I was wondering the same thing myself, so thanks for the thread.
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