Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-25986915-20150113194129/@comment-24397663-20150115084258

74.137.87.80 wrote: Blutbadenser wrote: I think the "deutsche Geschwierigkeit" is a very good example. The word Geschwierigkeit does not exist, but it could. It shows eyactly how the German language works. and it is just more impressive than than "Probleme mit deutsch".

We Germans have our stereotyped ideas about English too: in every word there are at least 2 "th" and every second word is ending with "ing" and such things. Ha! I never thought of English that way! But here are the problems with German:


 * Geeverythingen gestarten with "ge-" and geenden with "-en".

XDD the correct phrase would be "alle beginnen mit ge- und enden mit -en.'
 * There is about a 5% chance of finding the correct form of "the" in any context.

And I do sooo not agree XDD Why do you think "ge-" is a typical syllable for the beginning of a word?

But yes, using the correct article is not an easy thing to do... Even after living many years in Germany, foreign-born people I know still have difficulties with these. It isn't an easy language for sure. But did you ever try japanese for instance? Different types of counting thing, depending on what it ist, round, a glas, veggies alone...