Re: German phrases-- help
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 29, 2004, 17:45 |
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On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:32:22 -0400, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
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> So far we've come up with Mein(e?) Fahrzeug -- I don't remember whether
> the -e is needed or not.
"Mein Fahrzeug" is "my vehicle" (no -e since "Fahrzeug" is neuter, not
feminine). "Mein Fahrrad" would be "my bicycle".
> How about: "The gear (~wheel?) that drives the chain" --
"Das Zahnrad, das die Kette antreibt"?
> it would be amusing
> if this could be a one-word compound, ?chain-drive-gear?
Kettenantriebszahnrad is "chain-drive-gearwheel", roughly.
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>