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Is "wir feiern mit euch mit" correct?
We received a wedding invitation with the following sentence to fill in:
[x] Wir feiern mit __ Personen mit Euch mit
It seems to me that the last "mit" is superfluous but only to the same extent that "mit" is superfluous in bring deinen Schlafsack…
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What is the difference between "Wie spät ist es?" and "wie viel Uhr ist es?"
Here are my questions:
Does it matter when to use each of the two?
Is there any difference in the literal translation of them?
Are both of them correct when you speak and write?
John
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How to express "fizzle out" in German
I'm am struggling with the right way to express, "to fizzle out", in German. Let me give some example sentences:
We were very good friends at first, but over the years, our friendship fizzled out.
The game was very exciting at first, but sort of…
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Can "sie" be used as "it/this" in some cases?
I recently saw "Yes, it's working well." translated as "Ja, sie funktioniert gut.". Is this a correct translation?
As far as I know, "sie" means "she" or "them", but not "it". So it looks as if it's an incorrect translation. I would use "es" or…
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What's so bad about dogs?
In colloquial German we often use the prefix "hunds-" or "hunde-" to aggravate a negative attribute from various adjectives, e.g.
hundsgemein
hundeelend
hundemüde
This painting by François-Hubert Drouais (1770) illustrates that until today…
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Herkunft von »der was«
Im Osten Österreichs (wahrscheinlich auch weiter westlich, und möglicherweise auch in Bayern) werden im Dialekt Nebensätze gerne mal mit »der was«, »die was« oder »das was« eingeleitet. Auf ein erstes Relativpronomen (der, die, das) folgt also…
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Gibt es ein eigenes Wort für beschmutztes Geschirr?
Gibt es ein eigenes Wort für beschmutztes Geschirr?
Zum Beispiel:
"Du hast zu viel ____ in deinem Zimmer!"
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"Bäckt" or "backt"?
In Dreyer/Schmitt, "bäckt" is given as the primary third-person form of "backen". Since I never used this and have not heard it often where I live (Northern Germany), I was very surprised by this and wondered if this could be right. Are both forms…
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Wäsche auf links drehen
Wieso dreht man Wäsche auf links, wenn man sie doch eigentlich von innen nach außen dreht?
Google hat mir leider dieses Mal leider, abgesehen von gutefrage.net nicht weiter geholfen, sondern hat mir nur viele Waschtipps ausgespuckt.
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"noch immer" vs "immer noch"
I thought this question was dealt within a previous discussion, but it has been pointed out to me that it remains somewhat open. My impression was that if you say "er liebt sie immer noch" you were simply talking about a couple that had been in love…
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Can an umlaut be written as a line in handwriting?
My first German professor (a native German) told the class that an umlaut could be written as a line when writing by hand. However, my current German (a non native) professor strongly says otherwise.
That is, can ü be written as ū (only if…
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Warum ist das Mal in "ein paar Mal" Singular?
Ich habe mich schon ein paar Mal gefragt, warum das "Mal" hier im Singular stehen muss.
Denn:
wir kennen den Plural: wenige Male, mehrere Male
zu "paar" steht sonst immer Plural: ein paar Stunden, ein paar Kinder
Gibt es eine Erklärung für diese…
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Warum heißt eine Orange auch "Apfelsine" und nicht "Chinaapfel"?
Mehr in Norddeutschland und weniger in Süddeutschland kennt man auch das Wort "Apfelsine" für eine Orange.
Nach üblicher Bildung zusammengesetzter Hauptwörter müsste es aber eigentlich "Chinaapfel" heißen, so wie auch im Niederländischen…
Takkat
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Is "Lass uns uns treffen" correct?
What is the correct translation of "let's meet up"?
Lass uns uns treffen
Or
Lass uns treffen
user508
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German equivalent to "out of scope"?
I am currently translating an English specification for a software that needs to be implemented. In this specification, a few features that could be thought as "natural enhancements" need to be explicitly ruled out because there is not enough time…
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