Thanks for the correction, Johanna. I could never get my head around those case structures. Very difficult. So it's dative, not genitive?
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Thanks for the correction, Johanna. I could never get my head around those case structures. Very difficult. So it's dative, not genitive?
OK. "Mein/meine" is genitive. No wonder I failed miserably at German when I was at school. It's a surprise I can speak English!!!
But perhaps we should have a thread in the German forum for such things?
I corrected my comment when you posted. It's no shame failing in German, when even native speakers can't decide whether to take mir or mich.
Do you want me to teach German in iPF?
Ich habe ein Antwort gegeben.
German is very phonetic. The rules of speech are dictated by the spelling, so it's possible to read a strange word, and know exactly how it is to be pronounced, which is clearly impossible in English. For instance -ie- is always pronounced "ee", while -ei- is always pronounced "I", so the word "Weil" is pronounced the same as the English word "vile".
I may have mentioned this before, but...
Our niece and her husband are in Saarbrucken learning German. Our niece is going well, but hubby is struggling. The grammar and word construction are challenging for them.
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Perhaps, Johanna, you could start a thread in the German section that we can use, along the lines of the "Anything goes" thread in the main forum? It should be in German, but could you please note that some non-native speakers may contribute, so please go easy on them.