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Now that's a useful sentence! Actually used the English version of that in a work email in the last week or so. (The last sentence I had was the one about the cow who needs a new hat.)
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Is the ll supposed to be pronounced as j would be here? I'm distinctly getting 'day-tah-year-tuh'.
Yes, the l is a subtle y sound. Definitely no l sound. Pronunciation should be more like 'deh-tye-(y)ear-teh'.
The past participle form of verbs is often used as an adjective in German, yes.
die gekochten Kartoffeln = "the cooked potatoes"
der frisch gestrichene Stuhl = "the freshly-painted chair"
das gekaufte Auto = "the car that was bought" (lit. "the bought car")
Note that the male voice mispronounces „detaillierte“ as „dedierte“ in the sentence, omitting an entire syllable; but pronounces it correctly for the in the individual word.
It isn't really a past tense but a past participle, and the "past" in "past participle" is really a misnomer. It could better be called a "completed participle". You can say, for instance, "I will have a boiled egg". The egg may well be boiled in the past, present, or future. All you are saying is that in the future, when you have it, the boiling will be complete. Whereas if you say "I boiled the egg", that is the past tense: you are clearly saying this is something that happened in the past.
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Can we get a slow version of this phrase? She says it so fast I can't hear how "detaillierte" is pronounced! lol!!
There are several web sites that have pronunciation. I like www.dict.cc which has definitions, sample sentences and recorded voices of German words. all the recordings of detailliert sounds French. I believe that two countries that share a border might share words too.
