Help your fluency in a nifty way

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Crec que és l'alemany el que és molt verbós i lletrós.
I think it's German which is very verbose and litterose.

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Astraios wrote:.הוא, בד שאתת תשס"ג לא וילי ברת אג'אא, סתם נפכואלי
Hawwa, bıd šātıt tašsāg la wēli brat 'ıč'a, stām mpıxwāli.
Yes, I wasn't nine years old in 2003, I was just exaggerating.
:? Varför specifiera åldern så exakt om man överdriver?
:? Why specify the age that exactly if overexaggerating?
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אָבער איך האָב ניט קיין עלטער ספעציפירט. איך בין געווען מגזם. נייַן איז נאָר געווען אַ נאָמער אַ סך אַ קליינע, וואָס מיט איר בין איך מגזם געווען
Ober ikh hob nit kin elter spetsifirt. Ikh bin geven megazem. Nayn iz nor geven a nomer a sax a kleyne, vos mit ir bin ikh megazem geven.
But I didn't specify an age. I was exaggerating. Nine was just a really small number that I exaggerated by means of it.

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Manayá isqun ancha huch'uy yupaychu! Tinkullataq yupay.
Kilenc nem nagyon kicsi szám! Rendes nagyságú szám van.

Nine isn't a really small number! It's a regular-sized number.

2003-manta pusaqlla watayuq karani.
Csak nyolcéves 2003-ban voltam.

I was only 8 in 2003 :0

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Theta wrote:2003-manta pusaqlla watayuq karani.
Csak nyolcéves 2003-ban voltam.

I was only 8 in 2003 :0
Ich war zwanzig.
Yirmi yaşındaydım.
I was twenty.
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Imralu wrote:Also wo bin ich dann?
Where am I then?
2003:

Już byłem zbyt starym w 2003r.
I was too old already in 2003.

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Theta wrote:Manayá isqun ancha huch'uy yupaychu! Tinkullataq yupay.
Kilenc nem nagyon kicsi szám! Rendes nagyságú szám van.

Nine isn't a really small number! It's a regular-sized number.

2003-manta pusaqlla watayuq karani.
Csak nyolcéves 2003-ban voltam.

I was only 8 in 2003 :0
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А мне было одиннадцать лет.
And I was eleven.

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Tuve cinco años. *sonrojo*
I was five. *blush*

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Ich war sechs.
I was six

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!?ווער האט אייך ארויסגעלאזן פון דער וויג
Ver hot aykh aroysgelozn fun der vig?!
Who let you guys out of the cradle?!

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Un asaltacunas pahí.
A random cradle assaulter*.

*Slang for pedophile

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Astraios wrote:aroysgelozn
?-rausgelassen?
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Freely productive prepositions have ar- on them and I think it marks direction or something, so oyslozn is leaving sth out(side) and aroyslozn is letting sth out(ward).

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Astraios wrote:Freely productive prepositions have ar- on them and I think it marks direction or something, so oyslozn is leaving sth out(side) and aroyslozn is letting sth out(ward).
I'd assume it's related to German her-. In prescriptivist standard German, its meaning is "towards the speaker" (as opposed to hin- "away from the speaker"), but in colloquial German, it's mostly shortened to r- and used vaguely directional, without accounting for the speaker's position.
Prescriptivist Standard:
Wer hat euch herausgelassen? "Who let you out?" (Speaker standing outside).
Wer hat euch hinausgelassen? "Who let you out?" (Speaker standing inside).
Colloquial:
Wer hat euch rausgelassen? "Who let you out?" (Independent of speaker's location).

Kto wypuścił was?
Who let you out?

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Oh interesting, and probably. Yiddish has aher and ahin but I don't think they can combine with other prepositions like that - heroys and hinoys aren't very common as prefixes from a quick googling, and then mostly in very German Yiddish. Or actual German written as if Yiddish, maybe.

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Ich habe ein kleines, rotes Sofa gefunden und nach Hause getragen. In meinem Zimmer ist es sehr groß. Ich muss noch mein Zimmer umräumen. Vielleicht passt es nicht.
Küçük kırmızı bir kanepe bulup eve taşıdı. Odamda çok büyük. Odamın biçimini değiştirmek zorunda olacağım. Belki uymayacak.
I found a little red couch and carried it home. It's very big in my room. I'm going to have to rearrange my room. Maybe it won't fit.
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Puñunaykipi nisiw hatunsi kaspamanta sapaq ukhuman astanayki. Ichapaschá q'intinqa.
If it is too big in your room, then you should put it in a different one. Maybe it will shrink.

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2003? Das ist nicht so lange her. War schon verheirated denn. Man ist richtig alt, wenn es fühlt, dass 2003 auch Gestern sein könnte...
2003? That's not so long a go. I was already married then. One is quite old, when it feels like 2003 could've been yesterday...


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Und ich war 13 denn...
And I was 13 then...
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Lyhoko Leaci wrote:Und ich war dann 13 denn...
And I was 13 then...
Even better: Und ich war damals 13
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2003年は11年前なんだ。おかしい人だよ。
2003 was 11 years ago. You're all weird!

もし本当に知りたければ、僕はあの時に15歳だった。
If you really wanna know, I was 15 at that time.

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איך האָב לאו דווקא געוואָלט וויסן, וויפל יאָר איז יעדער איינער אַלט, אָבער איצט ווייס איך, און איך קען שדכנען
Ikh hob lav davke gevolt visn, vifl yor iz yeder eyner alt, ober itst veys ikh, un ikh ken shadkhenen.
I didn't actually want to know how old everyone is, but now I know and I can matchmake.

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Bu gece bir duvar yumrukladım.
I punched a wall tonight. :cry:
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?אויף וואָס
Avos?
What for?

?צו איז די האַנט בסדר
Tsu iz di hant bseyder?
Is your hand ok?

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