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Gibt es ein unterschied zwischen ‘eine eigene…’ und ‘deine eigene’? Vielleicht bedeutet ‘eine..’ etwas, das irreal ist, vs ‘deine…’ für etwas, das existiert?
…*einen* Unterschied….
Sehr gut ;)!
No, “deine eigene” is “your own”.
“eine eigene” is “an X that I/one owns”.
Here’s an example where I would use “eine eigene”
– Ich brauche eine eigene Waschmaschine.
– I need my own washing machine.
The crucial thing here is that you don’t have one, but the concept “one’s washing machine” is appealing to you.
Does that help?
Super, wie immer – vielen dank!
yes, that helps clarify :)
Cool, glad to help!, Hey, did you actually get a notification that I answered? And if yes, did you get it by mail or by WordPress?
because the dictionary is custom built and I’m not sure actually, if these functions work.
No notification – I just came back to see. When you say ‘by WordPress’ do you mean that when I log on to the site I might see notifications? I’d stayed logged in, but just logged out and then back in again, but nothing (although I’d seen your responses by then…). Happy to test if that helps :)
Not sure about WordPress, actually. I have a comment feed but that comes from WordPress.com while I am running the site based on WordPress.org. The comments are managed by a third party plugin and the dictionary is self made, so yeah… I’m not really expecting notifications to work, which is sad, but oh well.
I’m actually glad I get one about a new comment for the entries.
Don’t worry about testing, time will do that :).
This would be a good topic for an advent calendar entry or mini-article or something. I think this distinction doesn’t exist in English linguistically and I feel like I *almost* grasp it from this comment but not quite.
Actually in English you can say “a room of one’s own” or “a language of its own” and stuff like that. So the distinction exists. But it’s not very neat. I think people use “of x’s own” not very often
Added to my list :)