Hinweise zur deutschen Sprache [WIP]

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• ins is short for in das, meaning “in this”. zum is short for zu dem, meaning “to the”. So we use the former for “inside something” and the latter for “going somewhere”
• Mehrfamilienhaus: Meaning apartment. From mehr(ere) (“several, multiple”) +‎ Familie (“family”) +‎ -n- +‎ Haus (“house”).
• Michael Schumacher is pronounced as mika-el schoomahhhuh and Sebastian Vettel is pronounced zebaastyan fetl.
• Ich kann dich nicht hören: I can’t hear you. Even though the word by word translation is more like “I can you not hear”
• Besichtigen $\rightarrow$ touring, besuchen $\rightarrow$ visiting, suchen $\rightarrow$ seeing
• Warum hörst du nicht gern Podcasts?: Why don’t you like listening to Podcasts?. vs. the word by word translation “Why listen you no like Podcasts”
• lebensbaum: tree of life. Different from lebensraum: living space and a Nazi talking point.
• Unicode for German characters:
  • U+00df: ß
  • U+00e4: ä
  • U+00f6: ö
  • U+00fc: ü
  • U+00c4: Ä
  • U+00d6: Ö
  • U+00dc: Ü
• Sag Bescheid means “let me know”, but the etymology of Bescheid shows us that it means “to inform”, so all variations of this phrase generally involve a formal passing of information.
• Difference between kein and nicht:
  • kein is used where you need to have an article for a noun. For example, in English we say, “that is not a problem”, but the German translation combines the article ‘a’ to make, “Das ist kein Problem”. Other examples are “Ich brauche keine Hilfe”, where ‘any’ is combined into ‘not’; and “Du hast keine Zeit” where the ‘any’ is actually a verbal ellipsis in English.
  • On the other hand, nicht is used when you want to say a direct ‘no’ or ‘not’. This is a far simpler negation, and therefore could be tempting to use everywhere. Aber das ist nicht immer richtig.
• There are four German noun cases: Nominativ, Akkusativ, Dativ, and Genitiv.
  • The four variations of “him” are: er, ihn, ihm, and seiner.
  • German Cases