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Sources for Etymology:
- Check "ein-komischer-vogel" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "ein-komischer-vogel" on Wiktionary (English version)
(For etymological connections across European languages. Not always accurate) - Etymonline.com - Origins of English words
My favorite source for the origin of English words.
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Came here to try to see if my use of “Typ” was inline with the YDG gold standard. But alas, kein Typ! You have a couple of other definitions but you call them all ein bißchen alt modish. Please help me write narratives without ‘der Mann’ in meiner Sätze. :) PS – if you search for “guy” in the search field, one of the hits is Duo Lingo! ha ha
“irgendein Typ” or something like that is an option but it does sound colloquial. Could you give me a context maybe where you’d want to use it instead of “Mann”?
(ps.: I’m sweeping through the comments at the moment to find all the ones I have missed, hence the multiple random replies :)
Hard to know exactly what I was needing back then, but something like: Gestern habe ich irgendein Typ vor deiner Tür gesehen.
Or just: Ein Typ hat meine Frau gestern angerufen. I guess the equivalent of some guy, some dude, etc.
Yeah, definitely “Typ” then. “komischer Vogel” is too much of a value judgement and only makes sense if you have seen weird behavior. But even then, I don’t think I’d use komischer Vogel.
Ok – not to lose the intent of the original post. There is no dictionary entry for Typ on YDG. Just thought it might deserve one. Thanks again
Done!