Questions tagged [reference-request]
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Hat "hau" als Begrüßung einen bestimmten Hintergrund?
Ich hab grad keine Quelle, aber glaube es ist allgemein bekannt, dass "Hau!" im Kinderspiel als Indianergruß gilt. Im Duden steht es nicht.
Wo kommt das her?
Grimm kennt immerhin eine ...
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Is there any complete grammatical description of German in a modern theory of syntax?
The Duden offers the most complete grammar of German currently. However, has anyone tried to use a modern framework like Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar or the Minimalist Program to as ...
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Is "Mass" a Germanic word for "great gross" (1,728 or 12³)?
The Wikipedia page for the number 1,728 (twelve cubed, or twelve times a gross) says it is called "one great gross (or grand gross, or, in Germanic, Mass[citation needed])". I want to find a ...
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What are some online practice exams to assess one’s level?
I’d like to do a full practice exam in preparation for a TELC exam, B2 level.
I’d prefer an online format I could do on my phone.
Is there any website with a decent digital format German exam? (I.e., ...
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Carl von Clausewitz in original German
Though I'm sure this is simpler than I'm making it I've been unable to find the German original of the Carl von Clausewitz quote
Next to victory, the act of pursuit is most important in war.
I don't ...
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"In Folge kommt es zu …" – oder "infolge", oder ausschließlich "infolgedessen"?
Folgende Passage schien mir nicht falsch:
[…] wird eine solche Politik gewählt; in Folge kommt es zu einer Umverteilung von Steuergeldern […]
Eine andere mir zugetragene muttersprachliche Meinung ...
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Pop quiz activities for German
Is there a place like google word couch or any quiz place for German? I have recently started learning German from Youtube (Lingoni german) and a mobile app Duolingo. Now, while going through a few ...
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What does *her* add to the meaning of this sentence?
(NB: If this question starts out looking very familiar to you, this is because it is in fact my second question about the same snippet of text. The first one is this one: "andern" vs "...
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"andern" vs "anderen"
The citation below is the Duden's definition of vorausfahren (my emphasis):
schon vorher, früher als ein anderer oder vor [einem] andern her
irgendwohin fahren
When I search online for the usage of ...
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Searching for a specific poem
I'm looking for the author (and proper wording) of a modern poem which could perhaps be considered a "Spaßgedicht"; it must be from the late 1960s or from the 1970s because it contains a ...
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Reference Request: Dummbatz
Can anybody confirm that Dummbatz is Saxon dialect (or perhaps low Saxon)?
I heard it from a friend repeatedly, whose father was from around Dresden, said Pfenge, ei verbibbsch and so on. I parsed ...
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Verbreitung des Selbst-Reflexiven Pronomens
Stimmt es, dass in südlichen Dialekten die Verwendung des Pronomens sich nach einigen Verben, die im Hochdeutsch bzw. in meinem Idiolekt nicht selbst-reflexiv sind, zumindest in festen Wendungen ...
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What is the original German version of Bismarck's phrase about intentions and capabilities?
UPDATE: It turns out that even Russia's president Vladimir Putin himself quoted Bismarck as saying that phrase! (Source1, Source2).
It thus seems unlikely to be a made-up quotation, because it is ...
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Brief, To the point, no-nonsense German grammar book written in English [duplicate]
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NEWBIE ALERT: PLEASE SUGGEST ONLY ENGLISH WRITTEN BOOKS
I think the title said it all, but for the sake of completeness, i rephrase it again. I want a non-repetitive(have you seen those books ...
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Linux English German Dictionary
Is there any offline dictionary with the following qualities out there?
Required Features:
pronunciation of the words
multiple examples of the word usage with pronunciation as well
thesaurus
word ...
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