Talk:German/Level III/Der Engländer in Österreich

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die Wörter is the plural of das Wort. What about adding (n.) or (n) for neutrum (or neuter ?)? The nominative plural always is with die.
 * Better to just put in both sing. and pl. rather than leave gender "unannounced". I will fix - Marsh

zu viel is the new spelling after the Rechtschreibreform.--Vulture 10:08, 1 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Thanks. I do trust you to know about these things. My dictionary is 1958, so could well be dated -- Marsh 18:52, 3 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Additionally: Not only Poetically, die Worte is also used instead of die Wörter. Wörter is used, e. g. in Wie viele Wörter beinhaltet das Wörterbuch (How many words does the dictionary include)? But: Achte auf deine Worte! (Take care about what you say). --Jayk (talk) 14:11, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Just some remarks on this lesson from an Austrian
conversation:
 * I don't know this, but it seems unlikely that there is a Hotel "St.Pölten" in St. Pölten. Almost everywhere in Austria, a safe bet for a Hotel's or inn's name is "Zur Post".
 * instead of "dort drinnen" I would use "darin".
 * A restaurant wouldn't be called "Das Wien", since Wien doesn't have an article. So the lady should say "Es heißt 'Wien'." Again, this is an unlikely name for a restaurant in St.Pölten. Maybe "Alt-Wien" or something like that.
 * "Guten Tag" even as a greeting is rather unusual in Austria ("Grüß Gott" is standard). It is virtually non-existent as a parting and feels very much out of place to me. It's very unlikely that she should say that. She should say "(Auf) Wiedersehn".

list of vocabulary: Österreich and Niederösterreich don't have articles (but they have neutral gender). "gutbürgerliche Küche" is not really plain food, but rather good and traditional food.


 * Sehr gut! I'll make the changes as you suggest. As for the names of places, they are of course not meant to be real locations, but your suggestions seem helpful in adding to the authenticity of the lesson. I suppose I might need to find a way to indicate gender of nouns that normally do not take an article; perhaps "(das) Österreich" or "[das] Österreich" ? Danke - Marsh 05:33, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)