"Du hast eine Schüssel."
Translation:You have a bowl.
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Would a key bowl (like what some people keep by their door) be called a Schlüsselschüssel?
Yes. And it would be feminine because Schüssel is.
Or have I missed the rules on how to form compound words?
That's actually tricky in the general case, because sometimes we add an extra sound between two components ( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugenlaut ) and sometimes we don't -- and if we do, it might be -e- or -s- or -n- or something else.
die Orange + der Saft = der Orange-n-saft but die Kirsche + der Saft = der Kirsch-saft (not der Kirschensaft or der Kirschesaft)
Sometimes German speakers even disagree about which one to use.
And sometimes it makes a difference whether or not you use one: a Gasthaus is not the same thing as a Gästehaus, for example.
The ü in Schüssel is short. Ü can be either long and short, depending on the word. Wherever it precedes a doubled consonant like ss, tt, etc., it's short. When it precedes ß it's long. If you Google around for audio guides to short versus long ü, you'll find examples of the difference.
(Edit: This is according to the spelling reform of the 1990s, which established firm rules that words had to be spelled with ss after short vowels and ß after long vowels. Before then it was less regular, but since the "neue Rechtschreibung" was the only one I learned, I can't tell you just how irregular it was.)
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Zu Heathers Theaterstück : Mann : Der Schlüssel zur Tür ist weg. Uns fehlt der Schlüssel zur Tür! Frau : Hast du in der blauen Schüssel nachgesehen? Er soll in der Schüssel sein . Mann : Oh - da ist er ! Danke
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When used in the accusative(i think it is accusative in the case of this sentence) and nominative case, fem = eine. It changes to einer in the dative and genitive though.
Sort of.
- has must be hast
- Schlussel must be Schlüssel with umlaut (if you can't type that, then use Schluessel rather than simply leaving out the dots)
- eine (feminine) must be einen (masculine accusative) -- Schüssel (bowl) is feminine but Schlüssel (key) is masculine, so the article has to change
"You have a key" would thus be Du hast einen Schlüssel.