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| Geordieboy Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5937 days ago 32 posts - 35 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 1 of 12 07 June 2009 at 12:26pm | IP Logged |
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hi i'm studying Spanish and German and 1 things i'm stuck on the future tense for "there is" which is "hay" in Spanish and "es gibt" in German. could someone tell me the future tense for either or both please?
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6470 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 2 of 12 07 June 2009 at 12:43pm | IP Logged |
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In German, it's "es wird geben", just as expected.
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| Geordieboy Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5937 days ago 32 posts - 35 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 3 of 12 07 June 2009 at 12:47pm | IP Logged |
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so for example you could just say, "es wird Zeit geben, es zu tun"?
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6470 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 4 of 12 07 June 2009 at 12:55pm | IP Logged |
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Yes.
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| Geordieboy Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5937 days ago 32 posts - 35 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 5 of 12 07 June 2009 at 1:02pm | IP Logged |
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and would the past tense, simply be "es hat gegeben" or "es gibte"?
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"es hat gegeben" or "es gab", more likely the latter. "geben" is an irregular verb.
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| Geordieboy Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5937 days ago 32 posts - 35 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 7 of 12 07 June 2009 at 1:16pm | IP Logged |
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ahh i see thanks for that
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| Weizenkeim Diglot Groupie GermanyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6104 days ago 70 posts - 72 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Russian | Message 8 of 12 07 June 2009 at 1:31pm | IP Logged |
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In this special case about time, 'geben' sounds a little awkward to my ears, though it is grammatically correct.
Generally there are 2 ways of translating "there is" in German. -> Es gibt, (Es gab.., Es hat .. gegeben, Es wird .. geben) or - closer to English: -> da sein. (Etwas ist da, war da, ist da gewesen, wird da sein) As so often you cannot draw a precise line regarding where to use which, but 'es gibt" tends more to the general existence of sth., while 'da sein' has a more local or limited meaning. For example: Ist noch Kuchen da? (Cake exists of course, but is still some here?) Wird bei Oma noch Kuchen da sein, wenn wir kommen? (Will there be still cake left, or will they have eaten all?) Wird es bei Oma Kuchen geben, wenn wir kommen? (Will grandma bake cake at all?) Wird es in 1000 Jahren noch Menschen(Kuchen) geben? (Or will there be noone left (to bake some)?) Zu dieser Zeit gab es auf der Erde noch keine Menschen. (No humans on prehistoric earth) Es waren nicht so viele Menschen da (im Theater...). (humans exist, but noone wanted to see the play) For the example with time i would also use (da) sein, because time just exists. 'Später wird dafür noch genug Zeit sein.' exept you are refring to a certain time/ times. 'Es gab Zeiten, da durfte man nicht sagen, was man dachte.' (those times existed unfortunately) use 'Zeit haben.' to express, how much time there will be for an action. 'Ihr habt dafür bis übermorgen Zeit. Sie hatten nur 1 Stunde Zeit, das Problem zu lösen. etc ...' 1 person has voted this message useful |
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