Why German is unpopular
Hi 12345,
"Die Mädel - De meid ---- Das Mädchen - Het meisje "
In German, it's 'das Mädel', but there is also 'die Maid'. The latter sounds archaic though.
"I think -icht is neuter as well: Het licht, het zicht, het wicht, het gewicht etc."
Words with -icht are not always neuter in German, like 'die Sicht' and 'der Wicht', but you are right with 'das Licht' and 'das Gewicht'.
In english all is the same- "the sight","the weight","the light".
«poster Wed Dec 24, 2008 9:01 am GMT
Hi 12345,
"Die Mädel - De meid ---- Das Mädchen - Het meisje "
In German, it's 'das Mädel', but there is also 'die Maid'. The latter sounds archaic though.
"I think -icht is neuter as well: Het licht, het zicht, het wicht, het gewicht etc."
Words with -icht are not always neuter in German, like 'die Sicht' and 'der Wicht', but you are right with 'das Licht' and 'das Gewicht'. »
Hmm I see, I always thought Mädel was feminine. Die Maid also looks more like 'de meid' in Dutch.
"icht" is not always neuter in Dutch as well:
Jicht - De jicht (feminine) (Gicht in German)
But well, both German and Dutch have numerous of exceptions in their languages.
das Weib (neutral)
the Wife (feminine)
Het wijf
(But you shouldn't use it here, else you'll get a slap in the face...)
Germany has the third largest economy in the world . And actually It is Portuguese that is spoken in Brazil. The reason German might be so high in Brazil is also due to the fact that a lot Of Germans immigrated there.
Gisele Bündchen Mon Dec 29, 2008 12:53 pm GMT
Right. It is estimated that there are around 12 million "Teuto-brasileiros" in Brazil, which is 6,6 % of the total population.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Brazilian
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More than 25% of US population state to have German ancestry - that doesn´t make German and Germany popular in the US, does it?
You could say that about any immigrant culture that became Americanized, even British apart from the English language.
<<More than 25% of US population state to have German ancestry - that doesn´t make German and Germany popular in the US, does it? >>
In theory it should be but remember that Germany and USA were enemies during the I and II World Wars, so everything related to Germany and the Germans became extremely unpopular in USA during the first half of the XX century and since then the German language did never recover its popularity in USa but prior to the I WW German was the most studied foreign language . Perhaps in a not so distant future the US Americans will realize that they are mostly Germans that speak English in the end and will study German again. USA will be called New Germany.
Then G.W. Bush is New Hitler and Obama is New Jesse Owens.
"USA will be called New Germany. "
Perhaps the Latin America will be called "New Europe" then.
In fact Bush is a German surname.
Latin America will be called New USSR.
"Perhaps in a not so distant future the US Americans will realize that they are mostly Germans that speak English in the end and will study German again. USA will be called New Germany. "
Lol, 25% German ancestry is not enough for it to be called New Germany.