Showing posts with label German. Show all posts
Showing posts with label German. Show all posts

Sunday, September 24, 2023

Was machen die Elefanten mit den großen Stoßzähnen?

Lately, I've been working on the German Duolingo skills under the heading "Describe the Berlin Zoo, discuss volunteer work."  A few times over the last month or so, I've gotten the sentence "Was machen die Elefanten mit den großen Stoßzähnen?" which I translated as "What do the elephants with the large tusks do?" but which Duolingo notes can also be translated as "What do the elephants do with the large tusks?"


I found it interesting that, while ostensibly translations of the same German sentence, "What do the elephants with the large tusks do?" and "What do the elephants do with the large tusks?" have different meanings and that these different meanings depend entirely on the placement of the prepositional phrase "with the large tusks."

In "What do the elephants with the large tusks do?" the prepositional phrase acts as an ablative of description because it immediately follows a noun, but in "What do the elephants do with the large tusks?" it acts as an ablative of instrument because it follows a verb.

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To-day, I also reached a 3,652-day streak, which means I've done daily Duolingo lessons for ten years.

Sunday, October 9, 2022

Conquered German Skill Tree... Again

I conquered the German skill tree on Duolingo... again.


I completed the skill tree on the web version on 30 September, but there's some discrepancy between the web version and the app, so I had to do two more skills on the app in order to get this graphic.

I've completed the skill tree at least twice before.  Here's a post from August 2020 when I got the level four trophy, and here's a post from December 2021 when - after Duolingo updated the skill tree and took that trophy away - I reached level one again.  Sometime after that, Duolingo must have updated the skill tree yet again and taken away an-other of my trophies.

Monday, December 20, 2021

German Level 1 Trophy

I'd reached German level 4 on Duolingo last summer, but the skill tree was updated since then (I don't remember when specifically), and Duolingo took my trophy away.  I regained level 1 to-day though:

Wednesday, August 26, 2020

German Level 4 Trophy

I earned the level 4 trophy in German Duolingo:


Saturday, April 1, 2017

Level 25 German


Level 25 German!

I couldn't sleep this morning, so I was working on completing the newly added German skills.

I'm pretty sure level 25 is the last level achievable on Duolingo.  They've stopped telling me "x more XP until x level" on my profile page, at least:

Saturday, March 18, 2017

New German Skills!

Like what happened with Norwegian a couple days ago, when I went to practice my German on Duolingo to-day (much later than when I usually get to it), I got a notification that there are new skills:


German is my first foreign language, and I've been studying it for over a decade now, so I don't think I'll have too much trouble getting through these new skills.  I already breezed through three (one in Phrases and two in Intro), and I don't think I even learned anything new.