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Your first "relativ" means "Verwandter/Verwandte" (Singular; grammatical gender : male/female, depending whether you mean mostly male relatives (Verwandter) or mostly female relatives (Verwandte) the plural form would be "Verwandte" for both grammatical genders).

Your second "relativ" means actually "relativ" and is used in the right sense here.

The word "just" you used is perfect in this place. However, we also have the word "just" in German language, but with a slightly different meaning (although very basically the same) and much rarer used. I'm just thinking on how to explain this meaning of the German "just" but I cannot imagine any example right now ...
Okay : One meaning I remember is in the sentence "Just in diesem Moment", which means "Right now this moment".

I never learned *any* English dialect. Considering how difficult German dialecs *can* be, this might be kind of a challenge ...

Grammar and the endings are the worst part imho in German language. Everything must be made up to fit the grammar case ... the English language has it sooo much easier ...

You are right : However = jedoch.

 

Hm, what I've experienced - from my point of view this is not right. We learned ONLY British English at school, here, where I live (and that is in Nordrhein-Westfalen), and American English came very, very late at school ! Almost verything I know of it came to me through my being in different internet forums !

 

When I was younger I was all for Amrican English and Amrica.
Did a complete turn for British somewhere along the way and never regretted it. Even did some 'cleansing' in my vocab and pronunciation.
What I'm heading for: Imperial English. The way the guys talk in ANH when Tarkin tells them the senat has been dispelled.
But it's a trail sometimes especially when its so much easier to type cookies than bisquits

 

I tend to use British English. I think the reason for this are my English teacher, who all used the British.
And I like to squezze an u every where.

 

Yeah, most teachers, if not all, try to teach British English first. I certainly adapted the pronounciation

but the boards corrupted some of my spelling. most notably, "color" because of the markup-code

 

We had one teacher at school who used American English... I had him once as substitution for an ill teacher.

 

I'd say "whom" instead of "who" assuming that I'm correct in my assumption what you might mean.

 

There is a German girl in my art class at school and she was saying how her friends in this country are very superficial, and the embarassing thing was, I didn't really know what superficial meant (I took an educated guess). It would have been slightly embarassing to ask the foreign English speaker of an English word . Strange

 

Skiara I undesrtand you. Fortunataly I got several courses oin the differences at university and that helped a lot. I had no idea how big those differences were. Still I have to admit I forgot most of the vocab-meaning differences.
And spelling, Zahn got me there. I'm an pro-Brit spelling but I can't bear the idea of 'grey noghri'. *waaahhhh* They got to be 'gray'
*slaps Zahn around with a big trout*

Often foreigners in Germany can be easliy spotted since they are about the only ones to use the times correctly. *lol* I wonder how many Germans can correctly use Futur II

 

Wow I am actually kind of offended by this sentence. That sounds dangerously close to the old English arrogance. TRUE English speakers eh? So I am not a true English speaker then? Well if you want to talk about English in it's ORIGINAL form it was German, so there you have it. It's not a shame if someone learns American English. It's spoken by far more people than those on your tiny little islands. I would NEVER refer to American English as the "right" way of speaking English at the expense of British English. I happen to respect both and would expect any speaker of English to do the same. Differences are differences, but when one acts as if their way is better, that's where problems arise.

I say let the foreign people choose which flavor of English they learn. I have German friends who hate British English and refer to American English as the "right" way. I actually defended British English as being quite cool. Perhaps I was wrong.

//walks out//

 

Aww come back, I didn't mean it offensively or anything. Isn't everyone defensive of their language, and I only used 'true' for lack of a better word. I am a proud Brit, and I think its sad. And we are cool and proud (not arrogant)

 

I wonder how many people learning German realize/realise that Timothy Zahn's second name actually means "tooth" ...

 

My second name is Button, so I spend my days hanging on peoples' shirts

 

I did not know that.

I have no idea what my second name means in any language if it means anything.

 

Thanks Sabine. It's supposed to be Italian though. I never thought to check a dictionary.

 

For some reason my computer does not want me to know. It keeps locking up as soon as I type my name in.

 

ownes? pwns!??

 

My name means: "The black one"
At least my name is cool

I always love looking up meanings of names.
One point against the PT German does not improve it much: Boss Nass = Boss Wet
Darth Maul = Darth Muzzle
Luckyly I don't remember any more names...
Timmy the Tooth is better with his names: Thrawn I actually had to look that up in a scottish one.
Jade, I always took it to come from 'to jade', much more fitting.
Talon

*gets severly sidetracked*
um, what was the topic around here

 

Any topic you like.