"Ihr mögt den blauen Mann."

Translation: You like the blue man.

[b48ad5f2]

What on earth is a blue man?

[DarkMartio]

A smurf? The Blue Man Group? Dr. Manhattan?

[rachael.cr3]

Dr. Tobias Funke.

[Eljen.az.Adam]

I'm afraid I just blue myself...

A lot of Tobias' lines must not make sense when translated into other languages.

[RaymondLee10]

Ich bin blau, da ba dee da ba die, da ba dee, daba die

[Sunshine.Baby]

Haben Sie ein blaues Haus mit einem blauen Fenster?

[RaymondLee10]

Ja, und eine blaue Corvette.

[Brendon_Nass]

Blau ist alles ich tragt

[peepeepoopooy]

Give this man more lingots!!!

[Love.and.loss]

I love that song

[ParkingtonLane]

An avatar!

[crazy_fizruk]

A sad man? With blue as in "blues"?

[Knittedduck]

If you're blue in German, 'blau', you're drunk...

[faith46]

I'm thinking the movie "Avatar"

[Leroy_James]

I seem to remember that 'Ich bin blau' translates, colloquially, to 'I am drunk', so could one translate this as saying 'You all like the drunk man'?

[Abendbrot]

no, that's not possible here. As you say the frase is: Ich bin blau. Du bist blau. blau sein.

• Ein blauer Mann, reminds more of ein Blaumann than of being drunken, that's a blue working suit for non businessmen.

• There are also other frases with 'blau' like 'blau machen' ~ having a break.

[MarkTheStrange]

OK, why couldn't this also be "She likes the blue man"?

[iguacufalls]

Because 'ihr' is plural 'you' when used as the subject. It's 'her' when used as the the direct object (Der Mann mögt ihr)

[Dr.OmarAlOraby]

Actually your example should be "Der Mann (mag) (sie)"

And (ihr) is "her" if it's only used as possessive pronoun

eg. "Her brother is a doctor" = "Ihr Bruder ist ein Arzt"

or in dative case

eg. "I'm going to Germany with her" = "Ich gehe nach Deutschland mit ihr"

[Konrad-Michal]

It would be then: "Sie mag den blauen Mann"

[fer_dee]

why "blauen" ?

[MarkTheStrange]

When adjectives are on the other side of a linking verb, they don't change ("Der Mann ist blau"); that's called a "predicate" adjective. But when they are right next to the noun they're modifying (called "attributive"), they change form to match the gender, number, and case of the noun. So "blau" becomes "blauen" for the same reason that "der" becomes "den": it's the masculine accusative form.

Note that adjectives have multiple declension patterns, depending on definiteness - if you have a definite article, like "den" in this case, you use the "weak" pattern, in which the only two endings are -e and -en: -e for masc/fem/neut nominative and fem/neut accusative, -en for everything else. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_declension#Attributive_adjectives

[fer_dee]

Thanks!

[ebling1]

It's worth to mention it's weak inflection in the acusative case. ^^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_adjectives#Weak_inflection

[MarcoValmo]

Until today i didn't know that adjective inflections follow the rules of the cases.. another complication.. wow.. I'm so happy

[Malaxiz]

Would "Den blauen Mann mögt Ihr" mean the same thing?

[MarkTheStrange]

Same basic meaning, different emphasis. Similar to the effect of the English "It's the blue man you like."

[lissybeth91]

Good job, Duo. You've topped yourself.

[yash6694]

What in the blue hell is a blue man?

[ilmolleggi]

Das ist ja ein komischer Satz

[Kookkie]

Me,too:-D

[VidhiPatel2]

Should DL accept 'you like man IN blue (shirt/clothes etc)' too? I got it wrong. :(

[orelm]

Why isn't it ihr mögen?