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| nou Newbie United States Joined 5339 days ago 5 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 1 of 3 17 April 2010 at 4:05am | IP Logged |
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Hello
I am using German Without Toil and am now confused. Excerpt: "Diese Maschine ist teuer. Sie ist auch neu." also "Dieser Wein ist stark. Er ist sehr gut." Shouldn't both bolded words actually be "es"? here is another example that actually uses "es" and "sie" - "Er hat eine Brauerie." - "Ich kenne sie sehr gut; es ist eine grosse Brauerie." The hell man =\ can anyone explain to me how this works? Edited by nou on 17 April 2010 at 4:09am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Silvance5 Groupie United States Joined 5494 days ago 86 posts - 118 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, French | Message 2 of 3 17 April 2010 at 4:28am | IP Logged |
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When you replace a German noun with a pronoun, the gender carries over. For example, with the sentence:
Der Bleistift ist blau. The pencil is blue. Notice that "Bleistift" is masculine. The masculine nominative pronoun is "Er." Thus when you replace "Bleistift" with a pronoun, you have to replace it with the pronoun that agrees with the gender. Er ist blau. If the noun was feminine, for example: Die Kommode ist teuer. You would replace "Die Kommode" with the feminine nominative pronoun, which is "sie." Sie ist teuer. Using this pattern, the only time you would use "Es" is if the noun is neutered. Das Buch ist billig. Es ist billig. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Slovak_anglo Diglot Groupie United States facebook.com/deliver Joined 5345 days ago 87 posts - 100 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Italian, Slovak | Message 3 of 3 17 April 2010 at 5:30am | IP Logged |
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nicht immer.....(just expanding on what silvance5 said)
Die Brauerie... so you can replace it with sie. These sentences read: Er hat eine Brauerie Ich kenne sie sehr gut; es ist eine grosse Brauerie. it reads.... He has a brewery. I know it very well; IT(referring to the place itself... as in the inside, not the brewery directly. so no need for a sie) is a large brewery. Basically its a matter of learning genders. Get on it 1 person has voted this message useful |
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