I understand why the word ‘braune’ has an ‘e’ at the end but why does ‘graue’ and ‘Haare’ also have ‘e’? I understand the word ‘braun’ has an ‘e’ added due to the word ‘Auge’ being made into a plural word. But I don’t understand why this has also happened to ‘grau’ and ‘Haar’.
Ich schreibe jeden Tag geschichten.
Why is the sentence formed as "I write every day stories?
I know I have previously commented on Memrise no longer providing helpful mems to explain grammar changes (and I know Memrise is doing some work on making mems more helpful) but I feel removing them completely from the learning process is putting people at a real disadvantage. I some complained that they were very confusing but but removing them completely is forcing people to learn phrases without understanding the how or why behind every grammar change.
You need to look into declinations of the German language, without the mems to explain it to you, you will not understand unfortunately.
I have started to create a course for French speaking trying to explain those, but it is not simple and you must look up at other sites to read the rules and have more examples (so it needs to be done on the web version)
Memrise alone will fail in teaching you that. You need to look elsewhere. Here is a start on this forum :
@sircemloud I think I’m beginning to realise that Memrise alone won’t enable me to learn and fully understand a second language. This is not a criticism. I think what they offer is very good. I just wish they’d bring back the mems which did go some way to explaining the grammar rules. I found this very helpful and it gave me a better understanding of what I was learning.
Thanks for the links. I shall definitely take a look at them.
The British English German courses have a total of 2,756 entries. The American English German courses have a total of 2,554 entries. Why is that? Shouldn’t the courses be the same, albeit with different translations for a handful of entries?
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I would suggest to change Nichts zu danken! - You’re welcome!(German 2) for something like You’re welcome! / Nothing to thank for!
Since you’re welcome has too many possible translations as Keine Ursache! Bitte (sehr)!, Gern geschehen! etc and not all are accepted, moreover it’s kinda confusing.
Another point, maybe one should mark in attributes if English you should be translated as polite Sie or du.
Hi @moderators , apologies if this has already been brought up (or if this isn’t the right place).
I’m currently on German 3, and a recurring issue I have is when translating sentences from English to German involving ‘you’ - it is not clear if ‘you’ is meant in the plural or singular form in English and I keep making ‘mistakes’ by translating it in the singular instead of the plural and vice versa.
Any chance there could be clarification added to the English sentences in such cases, for example (plural) or (formal)?
It will save some frustrations : )
It is a recurring issue with the French and German courses in many Memrise courses where the learning language makes a difference between a polite you and a casual you.
I trust @mario2189 is working on clarifying those points in the German Memrise courses with our help.
In German 1 by Memrise (Level 7), for “the German (man; woman)” it gives the answer as “der Deutsche; die Deutsche”. But it should be “Deutscher” for the male. The R is missing.
This is a bit confusing, I agree. So basically, because we teach the lexical item with the article, it has to be “der Deutsche; die Deutsche” as @duaal has explained correctly. It is indeed a nominalized adjective. When used in a sentence however, the article is omitted, forming phrases like “Ich bin Deutscher” and then a different declension is used. This simply is called “strong and weak declension” (with and without article). The following links might help. I hope this will resolve some of your questions!
I have a question regarding the old German A2. In the level “Crime 1”, there are two seemingly similar sentences, but with different positioning of “entweder”.
One is “Sie können den Mann entweder beschreiben oder ein Bild von ihm zeichnen”, and the other is “Sie können entweder auf den Mann zeigen oder ihn beschreiben”.
What is causing the different order of words? Is it the “auf” in the second sentence? Or is it just that someone omitted to enter an alternative? Can I (and if not, why) say “Sie können entweder den Mann beschreiben oder ein Bild von ihm zeichnen”?
