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- "Did she advise you?"
"Did she advise you?"
Translation:Hat sie Sie beraten?
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Hat sie dich beraten? was accepted for me. But now that I read the comments, I am interested in two things:
1) dich vs dir?
2) beraten vs geraten?
Wow! I love it when I can come back and answer my own questions. This explanation turned out to be very useful. Here we go:
1) We need dich here because that's how beraten works. It is a transitive verb that takes 'somebody' as the object. "She advises you."
This is different to how raten works - it takes 'the piece of advice' as the direct object, and 'somebody' as the indirect object (i.e. dative case). So whereas you can beraten somebody [full stop], you raten somebody something. English uses the same verb for both:
"I advise you" = I am your advisor (beraten, dich)
"I advise taking a break" = I advise [to you] that you should take a break (raten, dir)
As you can see from this, to translate Duolingo's English sentence into German, we must use beraten as there is no 'piece of advice' mentioned which raten needs. It's just general 'advising'. And so, "you" are the direct object and that is dich.
2) Following on from that, we just look up beraten on Canoo.net and are informed that beraten's participle is... beraten. This happens a lot [EDIT: always] with the be- prefix.
Geraten could only come from the main verb being raten (which we just discussed) or geraten (which means something unrelated).
That doesn't just "happen a lot" with be-, it always does. It's an inseparable prefix and verbs with inseparable prefixes don't allow -ge- in their past participles.
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Yes, but it is not always the case that a be- verb's infinitive form and past participle are identical (which is what I thought az_p was expressing surprise about). Examples: beenden (weak) has the past participle beendet; bestehen (strong) has the past participle bestanden.
The second example sounds better if we use "recommend" instead of "advise". Recommend in English had the same requirement that "raten" does in German, an object to be recommended. In short, you advise someone and recommend something.
Some friends here in Germany tell me that it would miss the akkusative complement, and that it did not sound correct to them. Is it some sort of regionalism?
It's common to have one but it is not necessary. Duden even lists some examples without an accusative complement: http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/raten_Rat_geben_erraten_loesen
It is "jemanden beraten" (accusative) and the past participle of beraten is beraten.
Yes, but do you happen to know if "jemandem raten" is used. It is given in Oxford Language Dictionaries Online.
Ah! Sorry, I misread geraten for beraten. Wataya gave the answer to your question :-)
Would "Hat sie Dir empfohlen?" be a correct translation of "Did she advise you?"?
No. "Jemandem etwas empfehlen" needs a second object and it's meaning is rather 'to recommend something to sb.'.
No, the person giving the advice has to come first.
- Hat sie Sie beraten? = Did she advise you?
- Haben Sie sie beraten? = Did you advise her/them?
- Haben sie sie beraten? = Did they advise her/them?
- Hat sie sie beraten? = Did she advise her/them?
- Haben Sie sie beraten? = Did you advise her/them?
- Haben sie Sie beraten? = Did they advise you?
So the whole thing that you can place words in the order you want (after respecting the verb in 2nd place rule) is a lie
It's limited to statements.
These are yes-no questions and they start with a verb.
Commands also start with a verb.
(But even taking into account whether the conjugated verb is first, second, or last, the word order of the remaining words is not completely free.)
The word order. Yes-no questions start with the verb: Hat sie dich beraten?
Shouldn't this be "Hat sie Ihnen beraten?"? Isn't the Sie the subject and therefore accusative?
'sie' is the subject and therefore nominative. 'Sie' is an accusative object. 'Ihnen' would be dative.
The verb 'raten' is an exception, it takes the dative, not accusative object.
Duolingo is wrong. Check the official Collins German-English dictionary
In the previous set, it seemed that 'ge-' is prefixed to the verb to get the present perfect. In the current set, few verbs beginning with 'be-' dont need the 'ge-' prefix, I observe. Am I missing something or is this just the rule?
Verbs with inseparable prefixes don't take ge- (and be- is an inseparable prefix). Verbs with separable prefixes take ge- between the prefix and the root (eg, vorschlagen -> vorgeschlagen). Everything else just takes ge- on the front.
I'm no expert, but I think the general rule is to put ge- as the prefix, but there are some that may be considered irregular that are not modified in this way. We probably just have to try and remember the irregulars.
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Great discussion, it clarified a lot, but can I just confirm whether 'Hat sie Sie/euch/dich beraten' are all correct?
'Hat sie Sie beraten?' was the correct answer. How in the world is this supposed to be interpreted in conversation?
Not hat sie sie berante but hat sie Sie beraten with capitalised Sie = "you".
Why not: Hat sie beraten sie?
- Lowercase sie cannot mean "you"
- Past participle such as beraten come at the end of a sentence
Haben sie euch beraten? Incorrect for me why?
Because you were supposed to translate "did she ...?" and not "did they ...?".
