70K Before Wacken 2013

[Quark]

Because German has a gender for everything - unlike english. So they have 3 ways to say 'the' and due to this also a bunch to say everythign else related to the word. I never figured out why all windows are female, all cars are neutral and all dogs are male (I think). Just seems unnessesarily complicated to me. French and other latin based languages are the same but only male/female.

It's also 'cause the article indicates the place of the word in the sentence. If it's a subject, dative, accusative or genetive.

Voilà.

 

[Koldawne]

It's also 'cause the article indicates the place of the word in the sentence. If it's a subject, dative, accusative or genetive.

Voilà.

We just say 'THE' and 'a/an'. Sometimes I don't understand why English is supposed to be hard to learn. We have so many less complications.

 

[agresionpower]

The genetive is used relatively often though.

And quicker than you think, heer AP.
Want 's morgens ben ik vertrokken,
's middags weer teruggekeerd.
's Avonds eet ik,
en 's nachts slaap ik.

En dat doet de Commissaris des Konings ook,
voorheen de Commissaris der Koningin genoemd.

And I can go on like that.

that's not quicker than I think, that's exactly what I think
though, that isn't common, during a normal day someone would only use it a few times, and not all the time.

 

[agresionpower]

We just say 'THE' and 'a/an'. Sometimes I don't understand why English is supposed to be hard to learn. We have so many less complications.

I don't think english is hard at all.
but than again, half of the stuff on tv was english when I was a kid

 

[Quark]

We just say 'THE' and 'a/an'. Sometimes I don't understand why English is supposed to be hard to learn. We have so many less complications.

But that's because you're a native speaker!

We have to learn a language based on another language, which, to us, has normal rules as in pronounciation etc.

In Dutch, a vowel is always pronounced the same wey, exceptions excluded, thich are mostly foreign words.
In English however...

Just read/read as an example.

 

[Quark]

that's not quicker than I think, that's exactly what I think
though, that isn't common, during a normal day someone would only use it a few times, and not all the time.

I use 's morgens/middags/avonds on a regular basis!
The Commissaris, no. We have "gouverneurs".
And I never had any problems with the Justice department either, so no letters from the "procureur des Konings" either.

 

[Alix]

It's also 'cause the article indicates the place of the word in the sentence. If it's a subject, dative, accusative or genetive.

Voilà.

You say it like it's so simple

Fuck this, I'm going to bed. Good night

 

[Quark]

You say it like it's so simple

Fuck this, I'm going to bed. Good night

It is simple! That's the reason!

But, like you, I have to simply learn the different genders and places in the sentence as well. There's no difference for me either!

Good night!

 

[agresionpower]

I use 's morgens/middags/avonds on a regular basis!
The Commissaris, no. We have "gouverneurs".
And I never had any problems with the Justice department either, so no letters from the "procureur des Konings" either.

's morgens/middags/avonds is getting less common over here I guess (in the past few years). I usually say "in de ochtend" rather than " 's morgens"
(same goes for middag and avond)

 

[agresionpower]

You say it like it's so simple

Fuck this, I'm going to bed. Good night

sweet dreams!

 

[Careo]

hi

 

[Careo]

damn...missed the 61 k post

 

[Careo]

time to spam

 

[agresionpower]

damn...missed the 61 k post

That's to bad, don't you know that's lethal?

 

[Careo]

That's to bad, don't you know that's lethal?

nope
thx for the information