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Originally Posted by rostasi
I think Plankton may be talking about how when you have two vowels
together - like "i" and "e" - in, for example: "einen Brief schreiben",
it's the second letter that gets pronounced: the "e" in "Brief" and the "i"
in "einen" and "schreiben." whereas usually it's the other way around
in English: "weird" where the "e" is pronounced.
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Oh now I get what you mean! Yeah, of course. That's very different in english, but we germans pronounce our vowels much more different. Plus, the three vowels a o and u have a combination with the vowel e making them to ä ö and ü, which makes them completely different. ya, i kinda get the hang of it now, and it's definately pronounced the other way round. we pronounce ei like the english would say "I", and ie like the english would say "e"
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Originally Posted by rostasi
My German friends always talk about the unnecessary length of
words in Deutsch. I mean: "freundschaftsbezeigungen" basically means
"friendship" you know? If you want to become an insured German citizen,
you may want to find a "Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften."
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"Freundschaft" means friendship. A "Freundschaftsbeziehung" is just a long useless word nobody would ever use, lol. it means "friendshiprelationship"
sounds like two people being friends and ****ing at the same time.
But yeah, we have very long words. But that's only, because in German you can fuse words together to a longer word. I can create a long word right now myself..uhhm...wait: "Bilderrahmengeraderückgesellschaftsangestelltena usweisproduktionswerkstelle", which means "the place where the ID card of an employee of an agency that helps crooked picture frames being straight again is produced"