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Post by fabbi on Apr 5, 2018 21:00:57 GMT 1
2. I don't know much German and as a result there are some grammatical errors in the first half that are corrected in the second half (I didn't realise German had masculine and feminine nouns). Or maybe they're still wrong, idk.
Actually, German nouns may be masculine, feminine or neutral (and believe me, this is quite hard to remember because sometimes genders are not logical at all - we say der Mann (masculine) for the man, die Frau (feminine) for the woman BUT (and don't ask my why...) das Mädchen (neutral - "normally" used for objects? ) for the miss/the young girl), they always begin with a capital letter, and the declination of articles and adjectives changes with the gender of the noun, with singular/plural (if you use definite articles) but also with the case (nominative, accusative, dative or genitive). Don't forget that the articles can change as well. 2. I don't know much German and as a result there are some grammatical errors in the first half that are corrected in the second half (I didn't realise German had masculine and feminine nouns). Or maybe they're still wrong, idk.
German grammar is not extremely complicated - there are not as many tricky rules as in French - but there are rules that you have to know before making some experiments (like the place of the verbs in the sentences). Don't underrate our grammar. If I may be honest you're actually the first one to tell me that German is not complicated.
2. I don't know much German and as a result there are some grammatical errors in the first half that are corrected in the second half (I didn't realise German had masculine and feminine nouns). Or maybe they're still wrong, idk.
You couldn't be bothered to ask a native-speaker?
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Tufkai
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There's something in the atmosphere
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Post by Tufkai on Apr 5, 2018 22:11:30 GMT 1
Yeah, the voting was kind of a mess, but it was kind of intentional. Not the grammar errors, but the alternation between the 3 languages was.
Thank you all for the info. I learned more about the German language than I ever could have wished
The voting is going to be more standardised in the future editions
For editions #03-10 (1958-1966), there will be four different formats for the voting, which will depend on the hosting nation:
Votes are repeated in English. Scoreboard is in English -
Votes are repeated in French. Scoreboard is in French -
Votes are repeated in same language as voter. Scoreboard is in native language -
Votes are repeated in same language as voter. Scoreboard is in English -
*Monaco will not host if they winAlso, I accidentally put the title of Italy's 1957 ESC entry in the scoreboard, and I only noticed now despite it winning
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Post by italix on Apr 5, 2018 23:55:29 GMT 1
German grammar is not extremely complicated - there are not as many tricky rules as in French - but there are rules that you have to know before making some experiments (like the place of the verbs in the sentences). Don't underrate our grammar. If I may be honest you're actually the first one to tell me that German is not complicated. I said not extremely complicated. When you know that there are 15 cases (and not only 4) in Finnish you can guess that there are grammars that are more complicated. I haven't had any lesson in German for many years but I still remember the grammar rules. I found the vocabulary much more complicated to learn and by the way, I've forgotten a lot of words. The complexity of a grammar also depends on the other languages you already know. Italian for example is not very complicated to learn for a Spanish or a French native speaker but the conjugation of Italian verbs must be a complete nightmare for an English native speaker if you know that you don't need to use personal pronouns in Italian because ALL verbal forms are different.
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Post by fabbi on Apr 6, 2018 17:36:47 GMT 1
Don't underrate our grammar. If I may be honest you're actually the first one to tell me that German is not complicated. I said not extremely complicated. Oh sorry, I didn't see that you write eextremely.
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