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| shadowzoid Groupie United States Joined 5493 days ago 76 posts - 85 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 1 of 6 06 June 2009 at 6:02pm | IP Logged |
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whats the difference between both. are they differnt forms?
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| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5576 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 2 of 6 06 June 2009 at 6:09pm | IP Logged |
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Dort means a place (there), whereas dorthin means a direction (to there). There also is the word dorther (from there) though I usually hear 'von dort'. Same works for hier. (Sometimes German is logical, after all. Kind of.) Edited by Bao on 06 June 2009 at 6:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5821 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 3 of 6 06 June 2009 at 6:10pm | IP Logged |
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In posh terms "static vs dynamic" or "adverb of location vs adverb of motion".
The word "dort" is something that is there, and "dorthin" is going there (or that way). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tudwell Groupie United States Joined 5636 days ago 41 posts - 48 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Icelandic | Message 4 of 6 07 June 2009 at 6:34am | IP Logged |
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We used to have this in English, too. "There" vs. "thither" (vs. "thence" for "from there").
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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6082 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 5 of 6 07 June 2009 at 12:50pm | IP Logged |
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Yes. Dorthin implies motion towards there.
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| rabyte Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 5840 days ago 44 posts - 46 votes Speaks: German*, English, French Studies: Spanish, Hindi | Message 6 of 6 08 June 2009 at 12:27am | IP Logged |
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Maybe also interesting for you: One can use "hin" in a lot of these situations
hingehen -> gehst du da hin? (are you gonna go there?) hinfallen -> er fällt hin (he's falling down) hinsehen -> sieh nicht hin! (don't look there) hinlaufen, hinfahren, hinfliegen.... and so on :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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