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I saw “einges an Podcasts” – thats just a normal plural right – thoughts?
Yeah, it’s a fairly common turn of a phrase!
It sounds “a lot” and somewhat underscores variety. It’s always “einiges an” no matter the noun.
So i was a bit confused why you specifically mentioned mass nouns then in your comment. Is it “einige an Bier”
edit: maybe some examples would be cool for helping understand the grammar : )
So, just curious what the range of this word is….
how many can einige be ?
2? 3? 5? 12? 20? 50? 200?
Depends on the context. It’s more than just 2 and even 3 would feel weird to me, but in the context of a swarm of 100k fish, I can see how “einige” could work for 200.
That’s a lotta lotta fish. Ready for the big mouth of the big big whale. Its “shoal” rather than “swarm” by the way…
You probably know already that english is very specific about names for groups of animals. Some of these are pretentious, unnecessary and annoying imo and get wheeled out by smartarses,but in other cases they sound unquestionably wrong if someone doesn’t use the right one… shoal being one of those (imo)
I knew that there are all these names, but I didn’t know that it actually can sound wrong to use a “generic” one :). But okay.. “ein Schwarm Wölfe” does sound weird to me too :)
well, i suppose its a question of whats generic. Shoal is fairly generic term for fish
Apparently there is for instance “a murder of crows”. If someone said a “flock” of crows i don’t think i’d register that but if they said “a murder of crows” i’d notice and assume they were trying hard to seem literary…
I was thinking about it a bit more. There are some specific ones that sound totally ok to me and don’t sound “super try-hard”: a pride of lions (I’d personally probably go for pack tho) and a gaggle of geese (although i’d probably go for flock)
edit, googled this topic. A pod of whales also sounds fine. A troop of monkeys is borderline…
Luckily, there’s a catch-all:)
– a bunch of
Or if it’s a LOT then
– a whole bunch of
yeah i’m a fan of “bunch”. I didn’t really use when i was growing up it but i had an australian friend a while ago and kind of picked it up from him… obviously its informal, but that gives it its charm…