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| Diogo Diglot Newbie Brazil Joined 5383 days ago 19 posts - 20 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: Italian | Message 1 of 4 20 January 2013 at 4:50am | IP Logged |
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Can I use der instead of er in the following sentence? I've read it in my book. I understand the first der. The problem is on the second one.
Dort steht der Hausmeister. Der mag keine Katzen. Thank you. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4433 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian | Message 2 of 4 20 January 2013 at 11:11am | IP Logged |
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Yes, you can say this. You hear this type of example all the time in Germany. People use der/die to mean
he/she. But I guess the written standard would be er mag keine katzen. Edited by beano on 20 January 2013 at 11:12am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| 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 3 of 4 20 January 2013 at 12:18pm | IP Logged |
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The articles can also function as demonstrative pronouns. You can use them this way also in written language.
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| Diogo Diglot Newbie Brazil Joined 5383 days ago 19 posts - 20 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: Italian | Message 4 of 4 20 January 2013 at 6:06pm | IP Logged |
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And I though it was a typo! Thank both of you.
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