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In Germany regional accents are used quite often to distinguish different character types. If you want to present someone as being from a rural environment you let him or her speak Bavarian or some kind of North Geman dialect. If someone shoud be shown as being from a more urban environment you let ...

My native language is the Upper Saxon Dialect of German. A mother language in the meaning of this thread is of course German. Since the half of my ancestors are from Silesia there is quite a chance Polish is a mother language, too. The other half of my ancestors are from Saxony, so there is quite a ...

German also has some older names for the months, which mainly where reconstructed in the 19th century

Hartmond
Hornung
Lenzmonat
Ostermond
Wonnemond
Brachmond
Heumond
Erntemond
Herbstmond
Weinmond
Nebelmonat: translation of french "brumaire"
Wintermond

For informal speech, is "Ich kaufte das Auto." really the perfect? or is it the simple past? If it's the former, is tense simply ignored? or is there a different way of indicating it? Present: Ich kaufe das Auto. Past: Ich kauf t e das Auto. – imperfect aka preterite Ich habe das Auto ge kauf t . –...