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2009-01-05 German Language - kk vs ck: Hello again Sally, You are right, the normal word order should be "der muss sieben Sachen haben". But the usage in the children's song is a rhetorical figure, more precisely an anastrophy (an inversion...
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2009-01-05 German Language - 3 short translations: Hello Richard, sorry that I missed one question - it was late in the night for me here :-/ You use the subjunctive mode (sometimes called conjunctive mode), past tense: "Ich hätte nicht kommen brauchen...
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2009-01-03 Germany - 1 week in Germany: You have time for them all and more. But that's assuming you are flying into Frankfurt aM. If not, things get a little difficult. If you are flying into Munich, you may miss one or more of these points...
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2009-01-03 Germany - marriage certificate: Hello Linda, To obtain a copy of your mother's birth certificate she should contact the registrar's office of her birth town. She should ask for a "Geburtsurkunde" (certificate of birth) or an "Abstammungsurkunde"...
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2009-01-03 German Language - kk vs ck: Hello Sally, The ck was once (a very long time ago) a kk, but I doubt the Liederbuch is that old. As a remainder of the "heritage" of the ck, it turns to its old form k-k when you break a word into...
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