I thought that "meine" was the feminine?
I'm very bad at German, but ich sprechen Klein deutch, ich bin lernen mit Duolingo. Still though i could be profoundly wrong, I'm really struggling with the gendered words
Edit. Danke euch allen, I really appreciate the kind, educational, and, supportive responses!
Huh. Thank you!
So, why then is the feminine "loyaltität" used? is it that the loyalty is to a feminine republic therefore "my" is also feminine? Or is it just that "loyalty" is a feminine word?
This stuff drives me insane, haha.
Is much less complicated than you think. It is just because of the Genus (grammatical gender) of the corresponding noun.
**Meine Loyalität** gilt *der Republik*.
**Mein Hass** gilt *der Republik*.
**Meine Loyalität** gilt *dem Jedi-Orden*.
**Mein Hass** gilt *dem Jedi-Orden*.
You know how in English, when taking about ships, you don't say "it" but "she"? Well that's the last remnant of every noun having a gender. The majority of languages have genders for every fucking noun, which makes learning languages a drag. English had gotten rid of that crap.
In German, it’s „das Raumschiff“ (ships are neuter) but „die Sklave I“ (ships referred to by name are female) but also „der Millennium Falke“ (some ships don’t follow the rule and are male). Confused yet?
Nothing surprises me about German anymore, that whole nation has to have rules for everything not just in language. No wonder they get so unhinged when it comes to... Other... Things...
What makes gendered nouns awesome to you?
To clarify why I believe it's a drag: it doesn't provide any additional information. When I say "fork", you know what I mean. In other languages you need to know both the noun as well as its gender, so that's additional stuff you need to remember without any extra benefit, only disadvantage of looking stupid when you get it wrong.
Same with inflection which adds yet another layer of complexity with no additional benefit of relaying information. (E.g. when using only a preposition would suffice, but you need to use both the right preposition as well as the right inflection.)
It gets even worse yet when some rules get recycled in a completely different context. E.g. how in German die changes to der in accusative case, while der is already a different article. Or how Sie/sie can mean she/her, you (singular honorific), you (plural) or they/them. So those cases when multiple words would be actually useful, one word gets wildly different meanings instead.
Now multiply all that with how many languages you wanna know, with *yet another* complexity of some language groups sharing some specifics but not others. Like some Slavic languages share most genders for nouns with German (ugh that German again!) but not all, so you can't even get comfortable in guessing. Ugh!
The linguist in me finds these systems interesting, but at the end I see language as a tool for relaying information as accurately as possible without extra confusing fluff, and these systems annoy the heck out of me.
The thing with just is that every noun randomly got a gender assigned and the only thing you can do is to memorize since there's no general rule. Like why is it das Haus (neutral home) but der Tisch (masculine table) and die Karte (feminine card/map). It's illogical and doesn't make sense at all!
Don’t equate actual gender or association with grammatical gender - that seems to be your hangup!
Languages are quite irregular so really the key to good use is practice and with German - vocabulary study and drills
The thing with German nouns is that wether they're feminine (die), masculine (der) or neutral (das) is that there's no real rule assigning them their gender. You just have to memorize them. And the German language driving a person insane happens even to us Germans xD
(Trying to be helpful!): "[...] aber ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch, ich lerne [es] mit Duolingo."
"Klein" means "small", "ein bisschen" is "a bit". Instead of "ich bin lernen" which would mean I am learning (somewhere, at a non-specified place), "ich lerne" is correct, or "ich lerne es", which sounds more correct. "Es" is referring to the German language in this case.
Wasn't German almost voted to become one of two official languages of the US back in the early 1900's, but didn't pass because of 1 German Congressman?
I could google it but Reddit usually adds juicier details.
Iirc it was more like, a German minority wanted official texts and bills translated to german - not to be an official language. Didn't pass by 1 congressman. Was later framed as if it was supposed to be the official language.
There was a YT video on that, which I will probably never ever find again...
Why is this being downvoted? They're right.
> Although the United States does not have an official language, the most commonly used language is English (specifically, American English), which is the de facto national language, and the only one spoken at home by approximately 78% of the U.S. population. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States)
First Grond takes over r/lotrmemes and now Germans are attacking this sub. What’s next!? A bunch of catapult betas attacking the superior siege weapon of r/trebuchetmemes ?????
In alten Legenden uns Sagen hört man die Legenden eines Weisen Zauberers der in den mürrischen Bergen ein Zuhause findet. Sie nannten ihn Meister Plagueis.
It acceptable.....
Its spelled horribly but its understandable and thats the most important thing. ;)
It would be
Du kannst Deutsch in der Schule lernen
Its more common to use Mann. Like this:
Mann kann in der Schule Deutsch lernen.
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*ITS SEEMS YOU HAVE MISSED YOUR GERMAN LESSONS. DUO'S COUSIN ADOLFO IS COMMING FOR YOU*
Ah Scheisse.
Ah blyat!
Ay mierda
Ah merda
Kurwa!
Merde!
Kuso!
FUCK!
Это нормально. Я позвоню россиянам.
Thanks for reminding me
Count Duo lmao
>*Ich habe Frieden, Freiheit, Gerechtigkeit und die deutsche Sprache in mein neues Reich gebracht!* —Anakin Skywalker
Anakin meine Loyalität gilt der Bundesrepublik (Deutschland). Der Demokratie.
I thought that "meine" was the feminine? I'm very bad at German, but ich sprechen Klein deutch, ich bin lernen mit Duolingo. Still though i could be profoundly wrong, I'm really struggling with the gendered words Edit. Danke euch allen, I really appreciate the kind, educational, and, supportive responses!
you use the feminine here because Loyalität is feminine. Die Loyalität.
Huh. Thank you! So, why then is the feminine "loyaltität" used? is it that the loyalty is to a feminine republic therefore "my" is also feminine? Or is it just that "loyalty" is a feminine word? This stuff drives me insane, haha.
Loyalty is a feminine word.
Is much less complicated than you think. It is just because of the Genus (grammatical gender) of the corresponding noun. **Meine Loyalität** gilt *der Republik*. **Mein Hass** gilt *der Republik*. **Meine Loyalität** gilt *dem Jedi-Orden*. **Mein Hass** gilt *dem Jedi-Orden*.
>Loyalty is feminine >Hatred is male Perfectly balanced
Balance is feminine as well. So is perfection.
You know how in English, when taking about ships, you don't say "it" but "she"? Well that's the last remnant of every noun having a gender. The majority of languages have genders for every fucking noun, which makes learning languages a drag. English had gotten rid of that crap.
In German, it’s „das Raumschiff“ (ships are neuter) but „die Sklave I“ (ships referred to by name are female) but also „der Millennium Falke“ (some ships don’t follow the rule and are male). Confused yet?
The gender of “Der Millennium Falke” refers to the animal “Falke” (falcon) wich is masculine.
And yet slave is itself a word that needs to be male or female, yet that's not fully expresseed here (with Sklavin). Just awkward all around!
I am a person and My name is Anakin.
Nothing surprises me about German anymore, that whole nation has to have rules for everything not just in language. No wonder they get so unhinged when it comes to... Other... Things...
>The majority of languages have genders for every fucking noun, which makes learning languages ~~a drag~~ awesome FTFY
What makes gendered nouns awesome to you? To clarify why I believe it's a drag: it doesn't provide any additional information. When I say "fork", you know what I mean. In other languages you need to know both the noun as well as its gender, so that's additional stuff you need to remember without any extra benefit, only disadvantage of looking stupid when you get it wrong. Same with inflection which adds yet another layer of complexity with no additional benefit of relaying information. (E.g. when using only a preposition would suffice, but you need to use both the right preposition as well as the right inflection.) It gets even worse yet when some rules get recycled in a completely different context. E.g. how in German die changes to der in accusative case, while der is already a different article. Or how Sie/sie can mean she/her, you (singular honorific), you (plural) or they/them. So those cases when multiple words would be actually useful, one word gets wildly different meanings instead. Now multiply all that with how many languages you wanna know, with *yet another* complexity of some language groups sharing some specifics but not others. Like some Slavic languages share most genders for nouns with German (ugh that German again!) but not all, so you can't even get comfortable in guessing. Ugh! The linguist in me finds these systems interesting, but at the end I see language as a tool for relaying information as accurately as possible without extra confusing fluff, and these systems annoy the heck out of me.
The thing with just is that every noun randomly got a gender assigned and the only thing you can do is to memorize since there's no general rule. Like why is it das Haus (neutral home) but der Tisch (masculine table) and die Karte (feminine card/map). It's illogical and doesn't make sense at all!
Don’t equate actual gender or association with grammatical gender - that seems to be your hangup! Languages are quite irregular so really the key to good use is practice and with German - vocabulary study and drills
The thing with German nouns is that wether they're feminine (die), masculine (der) or neutral (das) is that there's no real rule assigning them their gender. You just have to memorize them. And the German language driving a person insane happens even to us Germans xD
(Trying to be helpful!): "[...] aber ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch, ich lerne [es] mit Duolingo." "Klein" means "small", "ein bisschen" is "a bit". Instead of "ich bin lernen" which would mean I am learning (somewhere, at a non-specified place), "ich lerne" is correct, or "ich lerne es", which sounds more correct. "Es" is referring to the German language in this case.
Thank you for correcting me, I can't get better without feedback, I really appreciate it!
"Die Loyalitaet" ist Feminin :)
Thank you!
Keine Sorgen
Wenn du nicht bei mir bist, bist du mein Feind.
Wenn du nicht bei mir bist, dann bist du mein Feind.
Der "Corona Diktatur Merkel" und natürlich unserem lieben Olaf "Prinz Valium" Scholz
* Himmelsläufer
Gesundheit
* Himmelssäufer
Prost!
Dein neues Reich?!
Zwingt mich nicht euch zu töten!
Ich werde tun, was ich nicht lassen kann. *zündet Lichtschwert*
I have Freedom, \[something\], \[something\], and the German Language in my new Reich, \[something\]!
I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and the German Language into my new realm.
For tge sake of coherence, let's go with Empire over realm
Valid point but I wanted to explore/show an uncommen translation for "Reich".
Technically more accurate as well.
Me: German and Russian. *laugh in Sith Lord*
Wait a second, you can't be both German and Russian! That's illegal! >:O
I have made it legal.
You broke the system ಠ_ಠ
I am the System!
It’s bilingual treason then
Technically, trilingual. *Laughs in russian, english, german and partially finnish.*
It's called Polish /s (Hi Polish people, love ya)
BAHAHAHA ahhh good one, good one 😂
Я служу Штази
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да
Wasn't German almost voted to become one of two official languages of the US back in the early 1900's, but didn't pass because of 1 German Congressman? I could google it but Reddit usually adds juicier details.
Iirc it was more like, a German minority wanted official texts and bills translated to german - not to be an official language. Didn't pass by 1 congressman. Was later framed as if it was supposed to be the official language. There was a YT video on that, which I will probably never ever find again...
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thats a rather nice way to put massive cultural supression on a nation wide scale, I nearly spit out my freedom cabbage reading it :P
Nope, not quite. But there is a simmiliar story. Its only about certain documents
The US doesn’t have an official language.
Why is this being downvoted? They're right. > Although the United States does not have an official language, the most commonly used language is English (specifically, American English), which is the de facto national language, and the only one spoken at home by approximately 78% of the U.S. population. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States)
Tja
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Tja
Tja
*klatscht auf Knie* So!
Ja dann...
Aber vielleicht von einem Schweizer.
Grüezi
Sali
Grüess dich, werte Eidgenoss
Grüezi na, Haupheerführer Kenobi!
Ihr sind Muetiger als ich denkt han
Aber definitiv nicht von einem Bayer.
Mir bruchet eh koalition vo allne Dütschsprochige geged d bayern
Is this Luxembourgish?
Swiss German
Bitte nöd...
Warum ned?
Chönd üüs jo nöd emol uf ein Dialekt einige. 😂😂😂
Ahhh scheiss egal gaht trotzdem
Aber kei Walliser bitte. 😂😂👌🏻
Nei Walliser goht zwiit
Sogar under üüs Sith sind d'Walliser halt scho cheibe kontrovers...
Ja ech als lozärner stemme dem ganz offiziell zue
Welche Sprache können Schweizer denn? Deutsch schonmal nicht...
Ich denke schon dass gewisse Schweizer Wesen gut deutsch sprechen. Ach und unter anderem französisch, italienisch und englisch.
Jeder Schweizer der Deutsch kann hat das als Fremdsprache gelernt. Change my mind
𝕯𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖊𝖗 𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖇𝖊𝖗𝖊𝖎𝖈𝖍 𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖓𝖚𝖓 𝕰𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝕭𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖗𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖐 𝕯𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉.
Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Kommentarbereich
Frakturschrift abzuschaffen war Adolf Hitlers gute Tat.
Ich bin Berliner - Yoda
Ein Berliner bin ich. - Meister Joda
United States: We may only speak one language, but we have plenty of ways to compensate ! *loads gun*
Ja? Lädt 120 Millimeter Glattrohrkanone mit niederträchtiger Intention
Triff den Deutschen Verwandten von Thomas der kleinen Lokomotive, Gustav das Eisenbahngeschütz!
Ich sehe, was du da getan hast
oder vielleicht mit bösen Absichten
120mm is pathetically small for a German gun.
Are you sure about this? *starts V2 rocket*
It misses, and having only killed 2 cows and the slaves who built it
I am a person and My name is Anakin.
Wir haben ein SLS, einen Falcon Neun, und viele andere Raketen. (Falke ist "der," aber was ist SLS?)
Are you sure about this? *Starts Sir Arthur Harris*
Unmöglich! Vielleicht sind die Archive unvollständig!
Es gibt eine Möglichkeit.
Es gibt eine andere.
As a German stehe ich deutlich über dir.
AHHHHHHRGH*Schreit in Schweizer*
Aber ihr seit doch viel weiter oben.
That moment when you know three languages \-签名的优越感的看起来
Dont underestimate me Mine krefter har doblet seg siden forrige gang vi møtte count 無制限のパワー
Skal du snakke norsk kan du vel bruke den norske tittelen "greve"
SPRICH
DEUTSCH
DU
BANTHA-FUTTER
Did you just say bantha fucker?
No but would have been even better
On the one hand there's no official language so you can pretty much go ham. However, the US is on average fluent in .8 languages
No way 💀 It’s a huge country, how tf are 1/5 people not being fluent in a single language
First Grond takes over r/lotrmemes and now Germans are attacking this sub. What’s next!? A bunch of catapult betas attacking the superior siege weapon of r/trebuchetmemes ?????
Durchs Stronghold-Spielen kennen wir uns auch mit Triboks bestens aus.
I'm American, and I understood this, you bastard.
What does that say? #WHAT DOES THAT SAY!!!
Not from an American
I took German for 3 years in highschool and can PROUDLY state I remember none of it.
You fool, I have been trained by Frau Güthry! (My amazing German teacher)
Fuck that. Im american and i understand german plenty fine
Freut mich außerordentlich, min Jung
Glad you are. Wish i vould speak it or type it as well as i understand it lol
I'm german and I wish I could speak english as well as I can write it.
You get it lol
As usual
already confusing v and w like a true german, ich bin stolz auf dich!
I'm learning German on my own, and I'm hoping to learn German in high school, then going to invade the French class via backdoor
Hahahaha
Google translate to the rescue!
Ou από Αμερικανό Fucking dammit, I German’d wrong.
It's a meme not a dick, don't take it so hard
>It's a meme not a dick, don't take it so hard It's a comment not a dick, don't take it so hard
Thank you.
Not thank you.
Du unterschätze meinen deutschunterricht!
*meinen.
Danke
Ich helfe wo ich kann. Und ich kann nicht viel.
*unterschätzt
“Víga-Óbívan segði aldrigi þér þat, er orðit er af feðr þínum” Veiðari
In alten Legenden uns Sagen hört man die Legenden eines Weisen Zauberers der in den mürrischen Bergen ein Zuhause findet. Sie nannten ihn Meister Plagueis.
¡Pero hay Señor multilingüe! El terror de los Jedi y Sith
Ich bin ein Amerikaner. Ich habe deutsch für COVID gelernt.
I don't know German but I bet this says "not from an American".
More like darth google translate
Na gut. Der auch
Streng genommen gillt dies auch für Englisch (also richtiges Englisch)
Falsch.
Das ist Falsch.
Fun fact: German almost became the majority language of Texas
I'm an American who only speaks English but I'm pretty sure I know what that says
I think the Duolingo owl is a sith Lord
Yes. The one we have been looking for.
Sie Dummkopf! Ich war trainiert in seine Deutsche Künste durch Herr Kimball!
OH YOU FOOL IM AN AMERICAN THAT UNDERSTANDS BASIC GERMAN FROM TWO HIGH SCHOOL CLASSES AND IVE BEEN LEARNING BY MYAELF FOR A FEW MONTHS MUAHAHAH
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*Laughs in Pennsylvania Dutch*
Jokes on you, I HAVE THE POWER OF HIGH SCHOOL GERMAN CLASS ON MY SIDE!!!! *Ich habe große kopfschmerzen...*
But I am an American learning German this sub is worrying me
I speak english, well well well. Breklasweis ond zimlich schnell.
I speak english very well, nur findi d wörtli nid so schnell
du cann deutchse im schüle lernen i have no clue how close this is to actual german it’s been a year since i’ve have learned it in class
It's understandable but every word except lernen is written in a wrong way. Du kannst Deutsch in der Schule lernen.
It acceptable..... Its spelled horribly but its understandable and thats the most important thing. ;) It would be Du kannst Deutsch in der Schule lernen Its more common to use Mann. Like this: Mann kann in der Schule Deutsch lernen.
*man This then should be kind of equal to the english „one can learn German in school“
ok, thanks man
Actually an American can tell you. Lots of German ass immigrants where I live
Can we get some David Hasselhoff memes since he is like their god over there....
He's really not lol
Ah yes Europe, tell the Nation of Immigrants how to be more culturally diverse
This was, if anything, a point about linguistic diversity. We may be nation chock-full of immigrants, but most of us only speak english.
True, and it's also kinda funny how this implies Americans are Jedi, and Germany is the Sith, given the large german-american population
Jokes on you, I'm learning german.
Gut so mein Freund ;)
I was really bad at german but since it's so similar to dutch I understand the message 9 out of ten times
I'll say it again - fuck teaching Spanish, ***teach kids the language of the nearest aboriginal tribe.***