I fucking love German grammar!!! It’s awesome. The Futur 2 and Plusquamperfekt are my favourite. We have some funky letters like ß (<- look at this guy :) ) and weird sounds like the CH and SCH. There is this one grammar “rule” that I don’t like. Because there is no real rule. You just have to know. It’s about the “connecting s”. So in some compound words you sometimes put an s between the two words to connect them. But there is not really a way to know when to do it. It’s Rind + Fleisch = Rindlfeisch but Rind + Leder = Rindsleder with an S.
Compound words are great because there’s no ambiguity about where noun groups start and end. English has compound words too, but german are the undisputed champions of compound words.
I fucking love German grammar!!! It’s awesome. The Futur 2 and Plusquamperfekt are my favourite. We have some funky letters like ß (<- look at this guy :) ) and weird sounds like the CH and SCH. There is this one grammar “rule” that I don’t like. Because there is no real rule. You just have to know. It’s about the “connecting s”. So in some compound words you sometimes put an s between the two words to connect them. But there is not really a way to know when to do it. It’s Rind + Fleisch = Rindlfeisch but Rind + Leder = Rindsleder with an S.
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I love how we can stick two words together and bam it’s a new word. Rucksackriemenquerverbindunsgträger
Compound words are great because there’s no ambiguity about where noun groups start and end. English has compound words too, but german are the undisputed champions of compound words.