Let's All Take A Trip To Germany

[launderess]

Waschmangel/Wringmaschine

Is in back of Peter's mother, screen left.

You can see it attached to the huge (and rather new and shiny) wash tub.

 

[askolover]

ich bin; du bist; er, sie, es ist

wir sind; ihr seid; sie sind; Sie sind

 

[panthera]

German has four cases

Which makes things very easy for native English speakers who grew up before the 'objective' case abomination of the past 30 years.

Like hell we we don't distinguish between Accusative and Dative in English. Just, we use syntactical grammar to make the distinction or transitive verbs.

 

[passatdoc]

Maybe 12,000,000 Germans emigrated to USA 1870-1920 in order to flee German grammar (meine Ururgrosseltern waren in 1878 aus Ostpreußen angekommen----sparsam, fleißig, pünktlich, und sehr, sehr DICKKÖPFIG)

 

[passatdoc]

ps when I recite these preposition lists to German speakers, they have no idea that such lists, not to mention their required memorization, even exist.

 

[passatdoc]

One aspect of grammar for which I am ridiculed: Konjunktiv I:

"Panthera sagte, daß die Speise im neuen Restaurant sehr gut seien (Meinungsfrage)"

versus

"Panthera sagte, das der neue Restaurant Montags geschlossen ist" (Tatsache)

They just laugh and insist that NO ONE uses Konjunktiv I in spoken German any more. They would just use "sind".

 

[launderess]

Another AEG Turnamat Surfaces

Germany is a treasure trove!

https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s...hine-und-trockner-toplader/729431571-176-1897

 

[panthera]

Ausser mir,

I use the Konjunktiv moods, they just sound right. If there were a good restaurant I Cheyenne, I'd go there!

 

[jamiel]

I remember those preposition lists in German class in 9th grade!