- Forum >
- Topic: German >
- "Eins ist eine Nummer."
105 Comments
Sung by Amy MANN....holy shiza! Mind...officially....blown. haha (Man=one. harhar... -_- Ok, I'm done)
"Nummer" is used when the number is part of an organized collection of numbers, like a phone number. "Zahl" is used when you just have a number, like an integer in math. The sentence above should probably be "eins ist eine Zahl."
To WolfStriker1: I think 'Zahl' would be equivalent to the English word 'digit' (numbers from zero to nine). Am I correct? I am waiting for your answer. Greetings. May 10, 2016.
Integer (whole numbers only) = Ganze Zahl
Digit (911 has 3 digits) = Zahlzeichen
Numeral (0-9) = Ziffer
Number (nominal, i.e. for identification) = Nummer
Number (mathematical, including fractions; rational, irrational imaginary numbers) = Zahl
Yes. Based on those premises, it would seem that the better sentence would be "Eins is eine Zahl."
So in English, it would be 'numeral, digit' for Zahl and 'number' for Nummer?
Untuk orang Indonesia, Zahl = 'angka' dan Nummer = 'nomor', bener gak?
The numeral 1 is Eins.
Ein/eine/etc. is the indefinite article and means "a/an" or "one (of something)”.
You would use Eins when doing mathematics, or reading out a telephone number. But if you would ask for "One beer please!" you would use Ein.
"Ich bin nicht eine Nummer, ich bin ein frei Mann!" Iron Maiden, Deutsched.
No, die natürlichen Zahlen are the 'natural numbers', i.e. the positive integers that can be used for counting: 1, 2, 3, etc.
ein = an (masc./neuter)
eins = a numeral
Eins und eins sind zwei.
Ein Bier, bitte!
'Nummer' is feminine, therefore 'eine' is the appropriate indefinite article. And remember to capitalize your nouns.
Eins is the number 1. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eins It is special as it is considered a cardinal number and is only used for counting or math.
Math is hard so that women are less manageable. By the way,really gender of math
Feminine!
die Mathe http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-german/math
die Mathematik http://dictionary.reverso.net/german-english/mathematik
It can be confusing because "of mathematics" comes out as "der Mathematik". http://german.about.com/library/blcase_sum.htm http://german.about.com/library/blcase_gen.htm
The number 1 when used for counting or in math is "eins" http://german.about.com/library/anfang/blanfang07.htm
The article ein/ein/eine/eine (masculine/neuter/feminine/plural) means "a", "an", or "one" as describing a noun. http://german.about.com/library/anfang/blanfang03.htm
36
When I was a kid - a good long time ago - we used to count out (like eenie,meenie, mynie, mo) with "Eins, zwei, drei, horsengoggle." I have no idea where "horsengoggle" came from - I'd guess a corruption of some German phase.
- 36
Does any native speaker of German have any idea of a possible German word or phrase which "horsengoggle" might be a corruption of?
- 36
It was in Michigan, USA. I don't remember whether it was just me and my siblings who said this or whether our friends did it too.
I should add we had a grandfather who immigrated (by himself!) at age 13 (1889) from Germany. This may well be where we learned it, although I don't remember HIM ever saying it. I don't remember whether it was just me and my siblings or whether our friends did it too.
He used very little German in front of us, although he regularly said, "Schlafen sie wohl!" at bedtime when we visited. The only other German I remember hearing from him was a table grace: "Komm' lieber Herr Jesu/ Sei unser Gast/ Segne alles was du/ Uns bescheren hast." I took German in college (after two years of it in High School - first German class in our town since World War II) and started writing letters to Grandpa "auf Deutsch". By then he was a very old man, and he seemed so pleased by this. I struggled with his handwriting when he wrote back - the handwriting he had learned as a child was very different from the handwriting he used to write English, which was the common English cursive. But he wrote German in Fraktur (which is spiky - reminded me of an electrocardiogram). One of my German profs was kind enough to help me decipher the Fraktur. I have just googled "Fraktur handwriting" and found some examples - you may not think this is as hard to read as I indicated, but remember his writing had the added shakiness of an old man in his late 80's, then early 90's.
- 1321
I just looked-up Fraktur writing, I recognise it but didn't know its' name. Again, an interesting memory, thank you.
Cheers, Malcolm
Please express why this sentence does not make sense. It makes perfect sense to me.
the thing confused me with the first translation of eins being a so I accidentlly wrote "a is a number" -_-
in computers: "1" - String (str) 1 - Integer (number) (int) 1 - (1 or 0) Boolean (true) (Bool)
Hey i have a question it has nothing to do with this question though how do you pronounce souber? Sober or Zouber Bitte! Danke!!!!
- 630
In Deutschland sagen wir immer, eins ist eine Zahl. Nummer und Ziffer sind eher speziell.
Je nach Kontext sind alle drei möglich. Aber ohne einen solchen würde ich auch "eins ist eine Zahl" für das Normalste halten.
Ich hatte zuerst einen inzwischen gelöschten Kommentar gelesen, der für "Nummer" als Normalform plädierte, und dann nicht genau hingesehen und dir das ebenfalls unterstellt. Ich habe meinen Irrtum aber sofort gesehen und meinen Kommentar entsprechend abgeändert.
If it is not qualifying a noun but as a single number standing alone, you always use the form "eins" (the neuter declinated nominative (and accusative) form).
- 196
La lalalalaa ..♪♪ here's my number ♪♫. I just love that song. Sadly it has no bearing on the sentence: One is a number.
Should be "ein." You only add the S if it is the last word in the sentence
No, the position in the sentence has nothing to do with it. The number "one" always translates to "eins", if used in isolation. In front of a noun, the numeral is modified in the same manner as the indefinite article (corresponding to gender and case).
I have a question. I asked my mum (she is German, but I am not) and she said that "one" iz "einz" on German and not "eins". Is it possible that we learn diffrent German here than German in Germany?
She's just remembering incorrectly. Eins is pronounced 'einz', but it is spelt correctly here.
Either that or the spelling changed recently, which is unlikely.
I have done all these exercises but they did not register. Please stop sending them to me to do all over again. B.Maizels
"Eine" is either "a" or "an" for feminine or plural nouns. In English, "an" is only used before a vowel sound. "Ein" is either "a" or "an" also, but is for Masculine or Neuter nouns in Nominative case and Neuter nouns in Accusative case. Masculine nouns in Accusative case use "einen". http://german.about.com/library/blcase_sum.htm
Adjectives change endings for number (singular and plural), gender (masculine, neuter, feminine) and case (Nominative, Accusative, Dative, Genitive).
