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Unlike English, the German language distinguishes adverbs which qualify verbs or adjectives from those which qualify whole sentences. For the latter case, many German adjectives form a special adverb form ending in -erweise, e.g. glücklicherweise "luckily", traurigerweise "sadly" (from Weise = way, manner).
Similarly, in most German regions it is only used in connection with meals. However, soldiers typically greet each other with Mahlzeit (and the reply Mahlzeit, not danke) from getting up in the morning until about 8 pm, including the entire normal work day, presumably as the next mealtime is always within short distance and is looked forward to.
Like many languages, German has pronouns for both familiar (used with family members, intimate friends, and children) and polite forms of address. The polite equivalent of "you" is "Sie." Grammatically speaking, this is the 3rd-person-plural form, and, as a subject of a sentence, it always takes the 3rd-person-plural forms of verbs and ...
In German, Dank, as well as danke, is used in phrases expressing thanks. [4] The headquarters of the Congress is housed in the center. Also founded in 1959, largely through the work of Leonard Enders, editor of the German-language newspaper Abendpost und Sonntagspost, the congress has chapters in different areas of the United States. [5] [6]
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Gefragt – Gejagt (Asked—Chased) is a quiz show that has been broadcast on German television since 2012 (on NDR Fernsehen from 2012 to 2015 and on Das Erste from 2015 onward). It's also been broadcast on ORF 1. It is the German adaptation of ITV's show The Chase.
Being a natural German speaker having known the language for almost 55 years I like simply to add, that in dialect "scheen" only roughly rhymes with "shane". Furthermore if you need to go to dialect at all you must know, that a Bavarian would pronounce "Danke" rather like "donkey" and end up with something like "donkey shane".
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 ...