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[–] 54 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Help your uncle Jack off a horse

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    A "warm person" is a homosexual in German.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    How do you tell the difference when spoken?

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Pronunciation, context and most importantly most of these sentences wouldn't be used like that. (Except for "die spinnen", i say that probably daily)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Context. In the first two examples both sentences sound exactly the same, but it has never been a problem.

    In some examples I‘d maybe expect stronger emphasis on the noun. ‚Sucht‘ (short u) vs ‚sucht‘ (long u) from the last example are pronounced very differently.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Duolingo has yet to enforce these capitalization rules. Boy, it is going to get difficult in later stages.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    for some reason I thought these were lyrics to a German death metal song being translated to English.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    „Wir fahren die Kinder um“ 😇
    „Wir fahren die Kinder um“ 😈

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Das ist aber grammatikalisch nicht korrekt, es wäre

    „Wir umfahren die Kinder“ 😇 „Wir fahren die Kinder um“ 👿

    Besser wäre z.B.:

    „Wir werden die Kinder umfahren“

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sie haben Recht. Ich lerne noch Deutsch, deshalb vergesse ich manchmal die richtige trennbare Verbformen. Danke für Ihre Korrektur

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Das ist aber auch ein besonders fieser Fall. Dein Deutsch ist schon echt gut

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I thought this was poetry

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Et ma blême araignée, ogre illogique et las,

    Aimable, aime à régner au gris logis qu'elle a.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    Its nonsense because in most of these examples at least one is gobbledygook , like something no normal person would actually say or write.

    Also with context you 95% of time know whats ment. Same in every other lanuage.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What's the difference in the 2nd? Don't the English transitions mean the same?

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