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"Weihnachten ist eine gute Zeit für deine Gesundheit."
Translation:Christmas is a good time for your health.
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So eating tons of chocolate and candy, and sitting around opening presents in the middle of a frigid snowstorm is good for health? Or does this sentence mean something else (like "Christmas is a good time to get healthy")?
Also Christmas time has the highest suicide rate in most parts of the world.
Unhappy Holidays – Snopes
Claim: The suicide rate increases significantly during the winter holiday season.
Status: False.
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Apparently spring and summer are worse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_effects_on_suicide_rates
It's the time for good cheer and all that! How can I add to that atmosphere?
I know!
I'LL BE MORBID! GREAT IDEA!
No. Its just another sentence of duolingo trying to remind us of the bleak German humor we know and love.
Ideally, Christmas is the time when you get together with loved ones, so their company is good for your mental and therefore overall health. But with some people, the diet-suicide might overcome the social benefits ;)
Could it mean, time to relax, kick back and enjoy time with friends and family!? I'm not sure...
I personally can't stand Christmas, one of the most annoying times of the year for me.
Okkk.. Where i come from its definitely not healthy.. we Hispanic ALWAYS gain pounds around this time lol
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Christmas is a terrible time for health. It's a time of unstable blood sugar, marketing insanity and illness. Christmas is a time when more personal discipline is needed.
Why isn't it "für deiner Gesundheit"? In dative, feminine words make the articles take an -er at the end, but not here? Am I missing something?
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From my understanding, "für" takes the accusative, not the dative. If it was "mit" (which takes the dative), your construction would be correct ("mit deiner Gesundheit").
In a previous question the discussion on Christmas concluded that since 'Weihnachten' literally means 'hallowed nights', the verb used (stehen) should be in the plural. If this is so, why must we now using 'ist' instead of 'sind' in this question?
In English we have the word "triduum," which can be used for any religious event that lasts for three days. And the word means "three days." And yet the word is singular, not plural. Maybe the same thing happens in German.
Thank you for your comment Timothy, I learned a bit more Roman Catholic vocabulary today! :) While I agree with your suggestion, Duo has asked me to treat 'Weihnachten' as both a plural noun and singular noun at different times. So how do I know which one to use, say, if I want to ask someone at what time the Christmas market begins in Switzerland? (Which I will!)
Luckily , "der Markt" is singular, so "der Weihnachtsmarkt" is also singular.
why should xmas be a good time for your health? WHAT A RIDICULOUS ASSUMPTION. xmas is a time of stress, for those that celebrate it, going out into crowds, buying crap for people you do not care for, going into debt, spending unneeded amounts of money, eating fatty unhealthy foods and drinks? BS!
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I am not a native English speaker but is xmas really a real Englisch word? I think it is more slang.
X has been a shortening of Christ (Gr. Χριστός) since at least the second century, and Xmas is attested since 1755. There are older shortenings involving X such as X'temmas, dating from 1551 and others from Old English even. Personally, however, I don't use shortenings very often but this one is in the dictionary.
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Thank you for your explanation. :-)
I knew that the X stands for "Christ". But I never had think, that it is an official word in the dictionary. I never would use this word in a serious writing.
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The audio is terrible and if you are not going to allow for the student to hear it at a slower pace, most, such as I, will initially get the translation of the audio wrong.
