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Complicated German Sentence



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Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:29 pm
Emerson says...



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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Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:32 pm
Sam says...



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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Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:38 pm
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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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Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:48 pm
Sam says...



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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