Comment by schluete

Comment by schluete 5 days ago

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Native german speaker here, this is pretty nice!

One mistake I found though: in the clock game the game's solution for one o'clock times is "eins", like "eins Uhr dreissig" for 1:30am/pm. That's not correct, you'd use "ein" instead of "eins", so the correct solution would be "ein Uhr dreissig"

Keep up learning german, I know from non-german coworkers how hard the language can be to get a grasp on!

predictand 5 days ago

Thanks for the correction! That's good to know. I also noticed it isn't dreizig but dreissig, whereas it is vierzig (and not vierssig). I have to double-check whether it is my source that's wrong or just another exception to memorize.

  • 1718627440 5 days ago

    > dreizig but dreissig

    Actually it's 'dreißig'. It can't be 'dreissig', since a double consonant like 'ss' indicates a short vowel, which a diphthong like 'ei' can never be.

    • chmod775 3 days ago

      A hundred years ago you might've still commonly seen it spelled "dreiszig".

      • 1718627440 3 days ago

        They are the same thing, when you don't use latin characters.