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- "Die Frau und der Mann gehen."
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When I think of gehen, to go is definitely the most likely definition to me
Isn't 'zu fuß gehen' translated as 'to walk' and 'gehen' to simply to go.
Ich gehe nach house = I'm going home. Ich gehe zu fuß nach house = I'm going home (by foot).
Or is it because a 'Woman and Man' are the subject of the sentence that it is implied that they are walking?
Why is gehen used as- to walk, whereas it usually means- to go. Also, aren't there already other words to describe "to walk" like spazieren? Why is it used here?
Gehen means to walk as in to leave somewhere. as in the sentence "The girl leaves" Which translates to "Das Mädchen geht"
Agree it start making sense when I remembered the h in gehen isn't pronounced
Women and man go is accepted but why woman and the man "are going" marked wrong??
Isn't gehen also used for leaving, i.e people leaving a party? I wrote: The woman and the man are leaving.
I am one of many people still wondering why "the woman and the man are going" is not acceptable.
What is the difference between die, der, and das? I always get them mixed up. Could somebody please clarify?
That's a simple question with a complicated answer. All of these mean "the," but are for the 3 grammatical genders in German. In the nominative case, where the noun is the subject of the sentence, it's "der" for masculine nouns, "die" for feminine, and "das" for neuter. "Die" is also "the" for the plural in any gender. Grammatical gender is sometimes logical, like "der Mann" or "die Frau," but sometimes not, like the diminuitive forms "das Mädchen" or "das Fräulein." Next is the accusative case, where the noun is a direct object of a verb or the object of certain prepositions. Then it is den-die-das for masculine -feminine-neuter. For the dative case (indirect object or object of other prepositions), it becomes "dem" for masculine, "der" for feminine, and "dem" again for neuter. Das Kind gibt dem Mädchen den Apfel = The child gives the girl the apple.
Okay so... Das is neuter die is plural and feminine and der is masculine. correct me if I'm wrong but den is used when the sentence is about the masculine object such as, er wascht den hund. Why isn't the sentence Die Frau und den Mann gehen? Because who is going? the woman and man, Man is masculine so therefore it is den man? I don't understand this? is it only used for objects?
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Der is Nommonative, I believe, and den is accusative. I am pretty sure accusative means it is the direct object of the sentence, however I could be wrong.
I'm sorry, this may have nothing to do with the topic, but I really want to know why some discussion boxes are locked?
Can it mean "The woman and the man are seeing eachother" ? As in going out on a date.
At normal speed there is an "s" sound between und and der. Is that a regional variation for rapid speech?
Like dude tf I legit said the exact same thing I was taught and it gave me a wrong answer
It said I got it wrong..my answer was EXACTLY the same... And they will take a heart!
