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Suzanne
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 Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:29 pm Post subject: Complicated German Sentence |
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I'm trying to say things more complicated than I know. How on earth would you say, "She forced her to live with the seven dwarfs"? And yes, I'm writing about Schneewittchen.
I have Seine Stiefmutter zwang sie mit den sieben Zwergen wohnen but I have no idea if this is proper grammar.
More than anything I'm getting confused with "her". I'm pretty sure I learned it somewhere, but not very well. I learned personal pronouns, but vaguely, and it was really...weird. Hilf mir, bitte? |
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| Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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Tillychan!
The first needs a female possessive, and you need a dative pronoun. Wie so:
"Ihre Stiefmutter zwangt ihr mit den sieben Zwergen wohnen."
*glee* I so want to read this. XD |
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| Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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@_@ Can you explain the possessives? I found a web site with things but I don't have time to actually read them and I thought Seine was possessive? I think my brain is going to pop.
Or should I just trust the answer you gave me? I really don't understand any of it! I only have complicated charts. It makes more sense in French....
And you don't want to read it. It's just a quick version of Schneewitchen. xD |
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| Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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Sure! If it's a female thing possessing, it's ihr(e, en, em), and if it's male, it's sein(e, en, em). With sie/Sie, it's ihn/Ihn.
Uns = our
Euer = their
And then with dativ pronomen, it's:
Masculine / Neutrung = ihm
Feminine = ihr
Formal, Plural = Ihn, ihn
I'd have to look up the us/their, but that's pretty much it. |
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