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- Check "mal" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "mal" on Wiktionary (English version)
(For etymological connections across European languages. Not always accurate) - Etymonline.com - Origins of English words
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There are a few entires for phrases formed with Einmal but not a standalone entry for it. I didn’t know where to put this so i’ll put it here…
I was wondering about ordering with the word einmal and then the number of the number of the thing you want , e.g. “einmal ein halbes Hahn” this is actually a thing right ? Do you use this form?
Yes, we do. It’s quite common in stores like bakery or fast food.
I’ll have to check the examples.
Thanks. Would it make me sound more like a native speaker or would it be a bit try hard if i used it?
The latter :D. The “plain” version “ein X bitte” is definitely better.
I’m curious about mal in this sentence:
Im Music Institute gab es noch nicht mal Alkohol
So would you say this “nicht mal” is functioning a bit like “never” the sense being during this time period there was never alchol (with the implication that changed at some point)
Your logic makes perfect sense, but you’re on the wrong track here.
This “nicht mal” is “not even”.
– There wasn’t even alcohol at the music institute.
“nicht mal” is a very important phrase and definitely worth adding to your active vocabulary.
wow, mind blown, would never have guessed that…. maybe I even heard about this before but had forgotten about it so definitely good to know about…..
Does this sentence work for the sense i originally though or should mal be “damals”
“Im Music Institute gab es noch nie mal Alkohol”
I see its in one of your articles actually, need to give that a read!
Thats definitely one for your nuggets if you are still working on that
Yeah, I actually just silent “launched” last week. I have a growing list of nugget ideas that I’ll write come winter :). I’ll definitely add this one!
Not sure what you’re going for here.
“noch nie” doesn’t combine with “mal” because “mal” in that case is understood as a “casual” version of “on occasion”. Which doesn’t make sense with “never”.
– I have never at some point done this.
“Damals” would imply that you’re describing the state of things in the past and at that certain point in the past, there has never been any alcohol being served… oh God, reaching the boundaries of my English here :D
Any of these would work
At this point:
there had never been any alcohol served…
Or
there was never any alcohol served.
Or
alcohol had never been served
Or
Alcohol wasn’t getting served (spoken / informal )
or
Alcohol wasn’t being served
or
alcholol was never being served