Montag, 12. Mai 2008

Deutsche Sprache

  • Hab Folgendes in einem anderen blog entdeckt. Ist es nicht toll, dass wir soooo eine schwere Sprache beherrschen?!
  • You probably know in German there are three different genders der, das, and die. So for every single noun out there, you need to memorize a gender as well (the are some rules for determining gender, but for every rule there are just as many exceptions as examples that fit, so you still have to memorize every single one individually). But you also need to change the article, based on the case that you are using the noun in. Let’s see what this looks like in German:

  • Deutsch
    Nominativ der das die die (pl.)
    Akkusativ den das die die
    Dativ dem dem der den
    Genitiv des des der der
    Now let’s translate that table into English:

    English
    Nominative the the the the (pl.)
    Accusative the the the the
    Dative the the the the
    Genitive the the the the
    Do you really want to learn a language that has 16 ways to say the word “the”? And it doesn’t stop there, you need to learn 16 ways to say “a” (in English 2), and 32 ways to change adjective endings (in English we have 0). And you want to try to do this in real-time in your head while trying to carry one a conversation… forget about it.

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