Heh, he' is such a wonderful guy ;P lol

I think there is a lot of which I'd like to know ;P
But e.g "I like you"

I'll think about it ;P

Anrufe ist richtig. Aber ich weiss nicht, ob das weil stimmt. Es kommt darauf an, was Du sagen möchtest:

Wir sprechen viel, weil ich morgens immer meine Schwester anrufe. (wenn Du sie jeden Morgen anrufst)

oder

Wir sprechen viel, wenn ich morgens meine Schwester anrufe. (Du rufst sie manchmal an)

^_ ^ Hoffe, das hilft weiter.

Hallo! Wie geth's?

Wie heisst 'chicken' auf Deutsch? Ich hatte Deutsch-Test gestern und ich habe vergessen das. - der Test war alle über "Essen und Trinken".

[Please correct me if there's any mistake in the previous sentences, which there must be]

Danke

Alright, I think I see what you're asking. Your question is about what case words have after certain prepositions, right? For example:

Ich fahre in die Stadt.

If I understood you correctly, what you want to know is if die Stadt is accusative, since it answers to wohin? (Wohin fahre ich? In die Stadt.)
Or, for the dative case:
Ich liege in der Badewanne. (Wo liege ich? In der Badewanne.)

Now, Stadt is indeed accusative, and Badewanne is dative.
But you have to realise that you do not normally ask for cases with wo or wohin. The accusative case answers to wen/was (who/what), the dative to wem (whom, basically, but it's not exactly the same).

To use the examples again, this would be the "correct" way to ask, although it sounds very awkward:
Ich fahre in die Stadt. (In wen/was fahre ich? Die Stadt.)
Ich liege in der Badewanne. (In wem liege ich? Der Badewanne.)

The problem is, it works in those cases, but you'll get into trouble when you start asking for every accusative or dative with wohin or wo. And that is because wohin or wo do not ask for grammatical cases but rather sentence elements: Adverbials or objects, to be precise.
You could maybe say that if the verb describes a static action, such as liegen (you lie still somewhere), you ask for the place with wo, while when the verb describes a motion, as in fahren (you're going somewhere), what follows is an accusative, but I don't know how helpful that would be as a general rule. Different prepositions have different cases following them.

Does that help? Sorry the explanation is that long...

Hmm... Well, I don't want to criticise your teacher, but I don't think it's wise to refer to verbs as being "accusative" or "dative". Cases are only used for nouns and pronouns, at least as far as I know.

In any case, the direct object of bekommen is obviously accusative, so no problem there. But bekommen is a bit of a special case because it is one of those verbs that are very closely connected to the passive. The implicit statement of bekommen is that someone actively gives you something, and you receive it. In your example, it's Martin's friends who give him flowers. And the preposition von simply requires that the nouns following it are in the dative case.

That's the problem with classifying verbs as being accusative or dative, it doesn't really work.
Could you give an example or two of dative verbs? Because I can't really figure out what that could mean.

Aww.
Well, German is a difficult language. I'm kind of glad that it was my first one.

Helfen. Duh! I should have thought of that myself. Hmm... Well, I can't think of anything off the top of my head how to distinguish between verbs like helfen, bekommen, and "normal" ones like kaufen. I'll see if I can find one of my old textbooks or something, and then I'll get back to you.

Maybe this helps you:

Dative
Dative Prepositions + Dual Prepositions (Acc/Dat)
Dative Verbs
Accusative
Accusative Prepositions

For your exam: viel Glück!

I just wanted to ask about the translations as I do come from Germany... so are the words in blue meant to be a translation of the meaning or like the sound?

Even though this post is more than a year old, I'll answer it since no one else did:

correction: Was heißt "chicken" auf Deutsch?Ich hatte gestern einen Deutsch-Test (besser: ich habe gestern einen Deutsch-Test geschrieben) und habe das (= dieses Wort) vergessen. Der Test war über "Essen und Trinken". (I would phrase it differently but otherwise, there's nothing wrong about this sentence.)

"Chicken" means "Huhn" (= das Huhn). But if the test was all about food... it also could be "Hähnchen" (also "das"), I don't know. Depends on the context. If you, or anyone else, have/has any questions, feel free to ask.


No, they're supposed to give an English example of the correct pronunciation.

Haiii to the awesome German people

How is the Happy Birthday song written in German?

hi ^^

What song exactly do you mean? "Happy birthday to you"?

Oh, I just realised that one word reapeats throughout the whole song

So, yeah, how do you write Happy Birthday in German?

Weeellll...there IS a translation to the 'Happy Birthday song' but we normally sing the English version...though, maybe that's just us?
Anyhow, the German version would be (same rhythm, melody etc.):

Zum Geburtstag viel Glück,
zum Geburtstag viel Glück,
zum Geburtstag lieber *insert person's name here*,
zum Geburtstag viel Glück.

Yes, rather silly...like I said we normally sing it in English with a 'lieber' instead of the 'dear' in the middle. *shrugs*

Oh, and if you just wanted to wish somebody a 'Happy Birthday' you would probably say 'Alles Gute zum Geburtstag'. *nods*

Hope that answered your question.

Thaanks a lot Lislchen!

Now I can sing Happy birthday in German *sings shrilly*

Oh, and that's how you wish Happy Birthday! Thanks a lot, I have many German friends and I'll surprise them on their birthdays! (as they all know that I dont speak German ) I really want to learn the language though, and hopefully I will!

You sing "lieber *name*" for a male and "liebe *name*" for a female person.

Lisa: Oh, yeah...thanks. xD