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Ich bin ein Berliner" (German pronunciation: [ɪç ˈbɪn ʔaɪn bɛʁˈliːnɐ]; "I am a Berliner") is a speech by United States President John F. Kennedy given on June 26, 1963, in West Berlin It is one of the best-known speeches of the Cold War and among the most famous anti-communist speeches.
For example: Ich bin am Essen. – I am eating; Ich bin das Auto am Reparieren. – I'm fixing the car. However, this form is rarely used in writing and is not used in formal spoken German. A formal alternative for a progressive tense is the construction sein ("to be") + dabei zu + infinitive. For example: - Ich bin dabei ihm zu helfen. - I am ...
Some German words are used in English narrative to identify that the subject expressed is in German, e.g., Frau, Reich. As languages, English and German descend from the common ancestor language West Germanic and further back to Proto-Germanic; because of this, some English words are essentially identical to their German lexical counterparts ...
In the standard language it may be lost or not: lieb! or liebe!, sag! or sage! The ending -e in the first-person singular of the present is always kept in normal written style (ich liebe, ich sage), but may also be lost in colloquial usage (ich lieb', ich sag'). This occurs more often than not in the middle of a sentence, somewhat less ...
German pronouns are German words that function as pronouns. As with pronouns in other languages, they are frequently employed as the subject or object of a clause, acting as substitutes for nouns or noun phrases , but are also used in relative clauses to relate the main clause to a subordinate one.
German sentence structure is the structure to which the German language adheres. The basic sentence in German follows SVO word order. [1] Additionally, German, like all west Germanic languages except English, [note 1] uses V2 word order, though only in independent clauses. In dependent clauses, the finite verb is placed last.
Wir sind des Geyers schwarzer Haufen is an interwar-era German marching song.Composed around the 1920s, the lyrics of the song are sourced from the poem Ich bin der arme Konrad [1] by the Bavarian poet and artillery officer Heinrich von Reder (1824–1909).
In German both sentences "Ich bin Berliner" or "Ich bin ein Berliner" are correctly understood - the second one is a kind of slang, the first one is the "Hochsprache", official German. Obviously Kennedy was not well advised to use this kind of slang.