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- "Das ist seine dritte Frau."
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I understand why Duolingo has some "strange" sentences sometimes. This just sticks in the head so much easier than an ordinary "normal" sentence. I love this tactic, Duo :P
I totally agree with this, I can remember that welcome = willkommen so easily thanks to the phrase "Your cats are welcome", I always imagine recieving a party invite telling me my cats are welcome to come haha.
Very true, just like terrible commercial jingles or ads in general. They just stick in your head!
I think the reason for this one, for example, is so you learn to audibly differentiate between, say, 'eine' and 'seine' based on the context for it to make sense; at least, I assume that's the idea!
I agree. Also, there have been others where I was thinking no way that's what they mean but I it anyways and end up being right. Just a way to really test your knowledge.
Actually, I don’t think there is anything in the Qur’an saying men must have more than one wife, that is not a practice related to Islam itself. I rather think it is a practice related to Arabic culture.
muslim≠Arabic
The Qur'an specifically states that one man may have up to four wived as long as he treats them the same.
But it's something that actually happens, and they don't think it's wrong. I have no fault...
In short, you append 'te' as a suffix. Look here though http://german.about.com/library/blzahlen.htm
Try this: "Eine Menge S heißt Ordinalzahl, wenn jedes Element von S auch Teilmenge von S ist und S bezüglich der Mengeninklusion ⊆ total geordnet ist." and start with empty set for 0.
I clicked the button to speak but I nearly dropped the phone and accidentally pressed the button again and I got it all right when i didn't do anything apart from save the phone :D
Can seine be her? I just want to try if i am right so i type "that is her third wife" and lose a heart
Ok, this instance of "dritte" is an even better false friend for the Norwegian-speakers, than the "dritte" orange :D
(in Norwegian the word is "dritt", and technically could gain an "e" if applied as an adjective to a definite noun but usually is agglutinated instead... and it does not mean "third")
I don't think German makes a distinction between this and that. For this or that, you would use Das, but for these you would use diese.
I'm going to copy and paste this comment from a user that no longer has an account:
"Das" and "dies" are stand alone and do not have a noun. You can say: "Dies ist mein Freund" or "Das ist mein Freund" (This/That is my friend). When you introduce two people to a third person, you can say: "Dies ist Tom und das ist Anna" (This is Tom and that is Anna). Both are OK, but "Das" is the most common form.
You cannot say "das Hund ist schnell". It is grammatically wrong. You use dieser/diese/dieses instead. They have always a noun. You cannot use them without a noun. For example: "Dieser Hund ist schnell" (This dog is fast).
Why do a lot of european languages fail to distinguish "this" and "that" while other languages do have the distinction?
This = something closer to you. That= something farther from you.
I've been told that French has the same problem distinguishing this and that, yet I notice they have different words for describing "this".
I hope you provide a citation for what you said because I can't just take your word for it.
languages just develop differently. for example, in spanish, they have three words (not counting the different variations for gender and plurals) Esto= this Eso= that, and Aquel, which means something like "that one over there." so they could ask, why does english only have two distinctions instead of three.
This doesn't quite answer my question, it just says that spanish has 3 of these terms. Thanks anyway.
Regardless, in German both "this" and "that" use "die" interchangeably. Look up any english to german dictionary.
I'll just learn to live with it. Thank goodness we have body language and fingers to point at so we can tell what is "that" versus what "this" is.
Well, if we can get away with only having two levels of distance distinction where Spanish, Turkish (bu, şu, o) and Japanese use three, then it's easy to see how languages can get by with only one.
In any case, you can distinguish them if you need to with something like this ...
"Das hier" = this "Das da" = that
D(ies)er Mann da ist ...
It's just that the distance distinction is not obligatory like it is in English.
"That is his third wife" is that to say there is another woman standing closer? And how do you say if only one woman is present?
die Ehefrau der Ehemann
Used when you really need to make it clear. Literally, "marriage woman" and "marriage man" ...
Why is "that's her third wife" incorrect?...(let's suppose we're talking about same-sex relationship).
It is weird referring to the wife as that. It feels more natural saying She is his third wife. I would, however, say that is his third marriage.
As it is possessive, why isnt it "dritteR", as it's female. Is it because it isnt an adjective?
But I believe jener is used instead of das when comparing two items at two different distances. Taking an example from Rosetta Stone, a girl holding a ball says, "Dieser Ball ist gelb." She then points to a ball farther away from her and says, "Jener Ball ist rot." It's "that", but more like "that one over there."
Have all the previous wives had mysterious unfortunate accident, or is this guy/lady simply a cheater?
You don't have to cheat for a relationship to break up. People can just stop loving each other and move on.
Warum sagt man manchmal "Ehefrau", und andere Zeiten nur "Frau"? (Wife)
I am also Muslim "Thanks god", i'm just amazed because of the sentence from the islamic culture. That all.. Thanks :)
Not bias, its just people speaking from their knowledge or experience that they have.
There was another sentence on this lesson, which went: 'Das ist mein dritte Frau', or something. These two sentences really link!
(Not painfully relevant)
Anyone else umcomfortable with the use of "woman" for "wife"?
Why? Also, Frau only means wife when preceded by a possesive (mein, dein e.t.c.).
It's the same for husband too; Mein Mann = My husband.
Not at all, much more uncomfortable with the lack of distinction between friend and boyfriend/girlfriend.
Nein. Die platz ist letzte. Zeit, Verbum, Art, Platz ( manchmal ist das Verbum erste, aber nach der subjekt [ich, du, etc.])
