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- Check "daran" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "daran" on Wiktionary (English version)
(For etymological connections across European languages. Not always accurate) - Etymonline.com - Origins of English words
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So I’ve heard this kind of phrasing fairly often but never had an explanation of it.
Das Beste daran ist… Das Interessante daran ist…
I assume this is bascially “the interesting thing about this is” rather than “the most interest thing about this is?
I asked myself basically can you add any adjective which you’d assesses somethings value into this structure? Or is this more fixed according to präpostions or idiomatic use… I checked a few in Linguee. das Komische daran ist worked, geile und spassig didn’t.
Is there a rule here?
I would have expected a comma after the ist but there doesn’t seem to be and also i noticed sometimes there is captialisation and sometimes not, it was surprisingly irregular…
P.s Hope you move is going or went well
p.p.s It would be awesome to get an article on “an” one day : ) My favourite präposition / präfix alongside “zer”
You can generally use adjectives as nouns in German, where in English you’d need “one” of “thing”.
– Ich nehme ein großes.
– Das größte ist für mich.
-…
So the example with “daran” is really just an instance of this, not a special phrasing.
It should be capitalized if it has the function of noun, but many people don’t always do it (inlcuding me).
Ps: Move went well, now it’s the cleaning phase :D
nice. So If i said Das Geilste daran ist… how does that sound ? Weird or normal?
cool your move went well btw!
It sounds fine, but I generally find foreigners using “geil” a bit weird. It’s one of these words that they learn early on as “colloquial” and then they want to sound “native” and say stuff like “du bist geil” meaning “you’re awesome”.
It’s not like it’s really confusing or anything, it’s more like some low-key try hard vibes :)
yeah ok, a bit like when my german work college uses “init”.. and he won’t stop even tho i told him not to….
Hahahaha, yeah, though not as bad, I’d say. But yeah… using slang is kind of a right you need to earn through being REALLY good.
A B1 English speaker using “I’m finna call her” is just cringe.
Is your colleague doing this on purpose to piss you off or do they think they’re good enough to pull it off?
i mean, actually he is exceptionally good at english. Like, really impressive, and he knows so much colloquial english its crazy. If he told me he was english I’d have believed him. That good. Although very occasionally there are a few things that are a bit off and in this case he just can’t pull it off.
Init is so “youth speak”. It just feels weird hearing someone try to use it. We used it at school when we were 16 but i dunno if i used it for years…
As for finna, yeah, agree. I only know the word from u.s hip hop and hearing it from someone who’s not from that culture would have massive cringe potential…
i mean i use geil tbh like “das ist geil” I don’t think i ever said “du bist geil” to anyone lol… but “toll” always seems a bit stiff. Like its a word a supervisor would use. Maybe I should consider swapping my use of geil for “nice” or”cool”
With “das ist geil” it really depends on the context.
If a friend tells you the plan for the weekend, then “das ist/klingt geil” would definitely strike me as “foreigner” unless it comes with PITCH PERFECT pronunciation of course :).
me? pitch perfect pronunciation? you can forget that lol.
Have I got this right, dran is an abreviation of daran?
In umgangssprache can it be used to mean?
1.state
2.get
3.turn into …
thanks
Technically, it is an abbreviation, but there are some examples where only one of the two works.
Here, “daran” would sound wrong.
The meanings/ideas you mentioned don’t really capture it. They’re also super broad.
I think in terms of general ideas, I would indeed consider “daran” and “dran” to be the same.
Could you give me an example for how you got to the meanings you mentioned?
A long time ago I’m afraid. Generally I capture words I come across but I don’t record the source. I think it must have been in some English-made, german language facilty/app etc. So sorry can’t enlighten further. I will follow what you advise.
Thanks.
I have just seen in the German film “bad luck” on netflixs:-
da liegt jemand drin
[From the film context were there is a body in the car] I assume here drin means therein.
Yeah, pretty much. Though the more “natural” translation is “inside”.