9 Quotes About German

German is a language spoken by about 100 million people in Germany and Austria. It is a West Germanic language, which belongs to the Indo-European family of languages. The native speakers today are primarily German descent people from the former East Germany, but also some other European countries, especially France and Switzerland. German is an inflected language, with four cases (nominative, accusative, genitive and dative) for nouns, pronouns and adjectives Read more

There are three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine and neuter), two numbers (singular and plural), three grammatical cases (nominative, accusative and dative), three degrees of comparison (stronger than, same as and weaker than) and two numbers for demonstratives. The main historical difference between modern-day Standard German and the various other dialects of German is the High German consonant shift; all varieties of German to a greater or lesser extent have shifted their original pronunciation of the consonant "f" to the letter "v".

Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit....
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Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen. Friedrich Nietzsche
In the German tongue, in the Polish town Scraped flat...
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In the German tongue, in the Polish town Scraped flat by the roller Of wars, wars, wars ... Sylvia Plath
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As early as 1930 Schoenberg wrote: "Radio is an enemy, a ruthless enemy marching irresistibly forward, and any resistance is hopeless"; it "force-feeds us music. regardless of whether we want to hear it, or whether we can grasp it, " with the result that music becomes just noise, a noise among other noises. Radio was the tiny stream it all began with. Then came other technical means for reproducing, proliferating, amplifying sound, and the stream became an enormous river. If in the past people would listen to music out of love for music, nowadays it roars everywhere and all the time, "regardless whether we want to hear it, " it roars from loudspeakers, in cars, in restaurants, in elevators, in the streets, in waiting rooms, in gyms, in the earpieces of Walkmans, music rewritten, reorchestrated, abridged, and stretched out, fragments of rock, of jazz, of opera, a flood of everything jumbled together so that we don't know who composed it (music become noise is anonymous), so that we can't tell beginning from end (music become noise has no form): sewage-water music in which music is dying. Milan Kundera
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In Japanese and Italian, the response to ["How are you?"] is "I'm fine, and you?" In German it's answered with a sigh and a slight pause, followed by "Not so good. David Sedaris
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My parents would not permit ugly language in the house, which was okay with me. I didn't want to learn German anyway. Alex Bosworth
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This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger. Mark Twain
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Going around in life using German, which Margaret had learned only a few years before, was like walking around in high heels--although it drove up the aesthetic rush of going out on the town, it was dreadfully uncomfortable after a while, and there were certain places you couldn't go Ida HattemerHiggins
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Heimat. The word mean home in German, the place where one was born. But the term also conveys a subtler nuance, a certain tenderness. One's Heimat is not merely a matter of geography; it is where one's heart lies. Jenna Blum