“Being Contrarian (in German)”
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I think I’m B1/2 at least for reading German… This was easy, but I love quizzes and such. More please
Pretty easy, not really sure where I am in the scale anymore but maybe B2? I got 100 %, but I like the exercise nonetheless, I think there’s a place for it.
Pretty easy. (A2ish level learner)
I am a C1 learner and made 100; however, there was one that I had to think hard about. I did not know the adjective “schief.” Quizzes like that are fun.
Always fun
Easy, but also helpful!
I am just starting, so I like the simple quiz. Learn some interesting words
Challenging! More please!
75% für mich
I got twisted in the first two, but then i got along with it.
More of it pleasee
A delight. Perfect for me; I’m probably A2-B1 (higher reading, lower speaking). I knew most of them but not all, and some of them I would have been hard pressed to produce while speaking although I’d recognize them in writing.
Very useful. I would say ‘crooked’ rather than ‘crocked’ in question 2.
Don’t think I’ve come across “eckig” on its own before, only “dreieckig”, “viereckig” etc. I thought the meaning was clear, but find some sites translating it as “square” suggesting an implication of right-angledness. A matter of context?
“eckig” is pretty generic. It just means that there is some sort of corner there. a dodecaeder is also “eckig”. a thing with 90 degree angles is “rechteckig” and a Quadrat is an actual “square square” with all sides the same length.
It was a good refresher for some words that have close meanings. I don’t quite understand ganz and kaputt as antonyms, though.
There’s not much to “understand” in a sense of logic. It’s just what the words mean :).
Here’s my article for more:
https://yourdailygerman.com/meaning-ganz/
Vielen dank. Ich have ein paar neue worter gelernt.
The rapid-repeat works well for learning. Also picking from similar words sorts out my confusion – e.g. weich from schwach.
Spelling: apart from American comedians, I have never seen anyone write “And, (question)“. There should be no comma or pause?
One exception: two Commas acting as a parenthesis:
“And, finally, would you like more of these?”
Your single comma is OK after some other starter words:
Well, how did you do?
So, how …
OK, how …
And you, how …
Tony (Brit)
Ah, that’s good to know.
Is it idiomatic at all to ask that way? Like… “and how’d you do?”
In German, this is super standard.
Und? Wie lief’s?
I’d say “So, how’d you do?”
Ah cool, I’ll start using that more then.
B1-istan hat mich zum Lächeln gebracht. Ich bin dort!
Ich wusste “schief” nicht und ich wusste kaputt und ganz als Gegenteilen nicht.
Vielen Dank
enjoyed this format. Thanks!
Oooh! Oooh! Emanuel! WAY off topic, not even about German … I just had to share this video with you and the others regarding a wonderful word-nerdy phrase book from 19th C … Portugal! With comments by Abraham Lincoln and Mark Twain.
Spread the giggles!!!
OMG, this is hilarious.
Also interesting to see that shitty, malinformed books are not just a thing since Amazon eBook-publishing but existed way back when as well. People are people, I suppose.
I also love Mark Twains rating. He would have loved X/Twitter. Probably would have shitposted all day.
Nice quiz, thank you! Stumpf and schief were new for me, and I had never encountered ganz as the opposite of kaputt before, but I figured out all of them from the context.
Hallo lieber Emmanuel,
Sehr nützlicher Quiz .Ich habe 10/10 richtig gehabt .
Hertzlichen Dank.
Bis morgen.
Top! Herzlichen Glückwunsch!