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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4332 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes  Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 2 of 9 13 November 2012 at 6:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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it's a contraction, colloquial speech, but not necessarily dialectal
the full form is: Wo bist denn du? it's rather northern than southern (at least I wouldn't pronounce it like that), but I think you can hear it in a lot of places edit: you can actually here it also in the South, but with different forms like "Wo bist'n du?" or "Wo bischt'n du?" (the latter in Tyrol for example) Edited by daegga on 13 November 2012 at 6:21pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5771 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 3 of 9 13 November 2012 at 11:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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"denn" gets contracted pretty often in colloquial speech. You might hear for example "Wer
hat'n das gesagt?" 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Al Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6316 days ago 30 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English*, German | Message 4 of 9 08 January 2013 at 11:37am | IP Logged | ||
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It's North Western for sure. I have heard that and similar in Cologne.
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| Sprachgenie Decaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5520 days ago 128 posts - 165 votes Speaks: German*, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Faroese, Icelandic, Flemish, Persian, Swiss-German Studies: English, Belarusian | Message 5 of 9 08 January 2013 at 11:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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I disagree. That way of speaking is not limited to any specific regions of Germany.
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| Al Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6316 days ago 30 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English*, German | Message 6 of 9 09 January 2013 at 11:14am | IP Logged | ||
Okay, I'm not a native speaker so I'll have to defer to you on that. What about "Was'n das'n?" Regional? Edited by Al on 09 January 2013 at 11:15am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5577 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 7 of 9 09 January 2013 at 11:06pm | IP Logged | ||
I can't really imagine hearing it here unless by people who play up a non-local dialect/accent they have or copying things they've seen on tv. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| r0pe Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 4476 days ago 29 posts - 33 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 8 of 9 09 January 2013 at 11:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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speaking for the southwest of Germany: "Wo bisch?" (Wo bist du?)
and "Wasch'n dess?" (Was ist denn das?) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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