in order of masculine, feminine, neuter, plural
- nominative: der, die, das, die
- accusative: den, die, das, die
- dative: dem, der, dem, den
- genititive: des, der, des, der
which becomes:
- RESE
- NESE
- MRMN
- SRSR
in high school I pronounced this mnemonic as:
- resee
- nesee
- Mormon
- sir sir
My teacher didn't like the "Mormon" bit, he wanted me to say "merman" but I found it easier to remember "Mormon" and his discomfort only made it stick better, lol.
6 articles?
amateurs...
meanwhile the polish words for "this" and "that":
Same across other Slavic languages
This is so painfully close to being Loss. There's got to be a way to juggle those squares around just right.
Is this Verlust?
Omg I thought that was the joke.
is this Das?
Wait this isn't loss?!
Fuck gender and fuck german for letting "the" get THIS fucking out of control.
I studied this fucker for 5 years in secondary school, got a B , but fuck it.
I'm learning/speaking Spanish now, it's still got gender and el/la/al but it's not this bad.
My first language of Turkish doesn't even have "the" for fucks sake.
there's a cheat code called "not giving a fuck" where you just say "die" or "das" for every word, and natives will just cringe slightly and then forget about it
Maybe you know it but if not read Mark Twain's Essay "The Aweful German Language". It's a fantastic and bellyachingly funny thing to read. I am a native speaker and have to admit Mark makes so many brilliant points.
Spanish is a rather easy language
German on the other hand not so much. On the other hand, it's usually very precise and information-dense, which is reflected in how fast it rather slow it's spoken, especially compared to Spanish.
Eh, there's lots of filler in German, too. I learned both Spanish and German and as far as I can tell, Spain-Spanish fast talking is more a feature of cultural extroversion than anything inherent to the language. Even many of the american Spanish speakers speak considerably slower than the Spaniards, and there's no obvious reason why Spanish should be spoken so much faster than Italian, Portuguese or even French.
Talking speed differs greatly by region though. Slowest speakers are probably Swiss and fastest being citizens of Frankfurt.
The Bart, The!
No one who speaks German could be an evil man!
English: We have one definitive article: "The".
Me: OK, that's nice and simple.
Scots Gaelic: Our's is a little more complicated. We have "An", which becomes "Am" for words beginning with B and P, for words starting with an h as the second letter (Th, Bh, Mh...) we use "A' ", and for plurals we "na", oh and if the first word in a word is a vowel, you slap "h-" onto it.
Me: OK, a we bit more complex but I can vibe with it, German what's your Definitive articles?
German:
and if the first word in a word is a vowel
Damn, that sounds a bit complex /j (Thanks for the insight on how Gaelic definitive articles work btw)
Ist das Verlust?
akkusativ my beloved <3
Babe wake up. The German grammar political compass just dropped.
Iâd like to start a petition to replace all these bad boys with âdeez.â For example: Deez Frau ist mit deez HutâŠuhhhhâŠgetanzt.
You think this is bad you should see a chart that explains the prepositions across the cases... Jfc
Iâm a nonnative German teacher and holy fuck is this helpful. I learned each of these separately and at different times with great effort, but I will be sharing this with my students, because itâs way easier to remember with this visualization. Thank you!!
This actually makes more sense than the arbitrary grammatical genders. (Sure, english has it simpler with, "from where", "where" and "where to")
Thither and thence/hither and hence/whither and whence are also counterparts to there/here/where, for older and/or more literary English
That's actually helpful
$5 says I'll forget again in ten minutes.
disrespect bullshit grammar rules, just say "dee" to everything.
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Its so simple. :)
god.... ew.
So. Much. Pain
No thanks.
