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我和托马斯进入同一所大学的时候开始的友谊没有持续多久。 My friendship with Thomas, which started when we entered the same college, didn't last long. The sentence has nothing wrong and is already a very good try if you are just a beginner. A more natural expression might be, throwing away the structure of relative clause, 我和托马...

(Another try for "from when") My friendship with Thomas from when we entered the same college didn't last long. My friendship with Thomas : a noun phrase from when we... college : it modifies a noun phrase and refers to a past event Meine Freundschaft mit Thomas, die angefangen hat, als wi...

可能，但是我知道要是我在大家面前只是脱衣服的，会觉得太丢脸了。 Maybe, but I know I'd feel so embarrassed if I was the only one undressing in front of everyone! :oops: I'd feel so embarrassed: 我會覺得太丟臉 if I was the only one: 要是只有我 if I was the only one undressing: 要是只有我 在脫衣服 有 可能，但是 我知道 要是 我 在大家面前 只是 只有我在 脱衣服 的 ， 我 会觉得太丢脸了。 I've b...

Wenn man selb klar weiß, dass man schwiemmen will, braucht man dann nicht, sich darum zu kümmern, dass alle die anderen anziehen, wenn nur man alleine auszieht. (If you yourself know clearly you want to swim, you don't need to care then about all the others getting dressed when only you alone are g...

1. I expect Hans to always talk gently from when he started correcting my German. 2. I never expect Hans to talk with words like that from when [he started correcting my German]. 3. I have the impression that Hans won't talk that way from when [he started correcting my German]. 4. I never have the ...

(After my meal it comes always then a walk.) How about :?: After my meal it always comes a walk then. :?: After my meal it's always followed by a walk then. Wow, I never expect our gentleman Hans will talk this way from when he started correcting my German. What you're saying above is that you form...

1. Der Wald, :?: den du betrittst/ /den du betreten wirst , ist riesengroß und sehr gefährlich. 2. Auf deinem Weg gibt es viele Weggabelungen, deren einige dich in :?: Lebensgefahr/ Lebensgefahren führen werden. (The forest you will enter(=you are entering) is huge and very dangerous. There'll be m...

That's a bullshit correction... Wow, I never expect our gentleman Hans will talk this way from when he started correcting my German. XD (Do I use "from when" correctly this time?) Q: Should the underlined "einem" and "ein" be left out or be kept? Nach einem Essen ist i...

Also, I received the correction: 2.2) Was er morgens neben einem Spaziergang am Flussufer (noch) macht, sind ist Wäsche waschen und Bücher ein Buch lesen. Q: So it's "ist", not "sind", even though there are two things (laundry and reading)? Should I also use "is" in Eng...

I made a passage, where I wrote: 1. Jeden Morgen geht mein Nachbar Thomas mit seinem Hund den Fluss entlang spazieren. 2. Morgens macht er am Flussufer einen Spaziergang, außerdem noch wäscht seine Wäsche und liest. *2.1 Nach dem Spaziergang ist ihm immer Wäschewaschen und Bücher lesen. Then I recei...

Q: Can "dafür, dass" replace "warum"? Thank you. Thomas geht morgens spaziert. Das liegt daran, dass er jetzt abnimmt. 1) Das ist ihm auch der Gerund, warum er morgens spazieren geht. ? 2) Das ist ihm auch der Gerund dafür, dass ... Q: Is the sentence pattern "Was...außer......

Q: How about sentence 5.1 and 5.2? Are they natural as well or even more natural in the context? Thank you. ▸5. Daher/Somit erschreckt ein Seil am Ufer auch mich mich auch manchmal. :?: ▸5.1. Daher erschreckt mich auch ein Seil am Fluss manchmal. :?: ▸5.2. Daher erschreckt mich manchmal auch ein Sei...

1. Die Form eines Seils ist auch lang, sehr ähnlich der einer Schlange . 2. Ein Seil, das in hohem Gras liegt, sagt genauso aus wie eine Schlange. 3. Daher erschreckt ein Seil am Ufer auch mich manchmal. (The shape of a rope is also long, very similar to that of a snake. A rope lying in the tall gr...

Und was will mam mit nem türkischen Pass... der Deutsche ist besser. "What do you want a Turkish passport for...the German [passport]] is better." In the old orthography, which I learnt at school, der Deutsche would have been written with a lower case "d", because it was seen as...

How about the exercise based on the discussions in the "English Questions" thread? Linguoboy is one of my language helpers on the internet. I have been receiving his help from when/ since I learned in another language forum. I still wear the same glass I had worn from when I first knew him...

Okay, and thank you. So you basically agree with Travis? I.e.,
A clause + when
A noun phrase + from when, but not
*A noun phrase + when

1) Außer Spanien habe ich auch nach Frankreich gefahren.
2) Ich habe auch nach Frankreich gefahren, außer Spanien.
(Apart from Spain, I have also visited France.

To make sure, Linguoboy and Travis disagree to each other on a particular usage of "when". And I think sentence (1) I made agrees grammatically with sentence (2) Linguoboy made? 1) It was inspired by my old apartment building when I lived on the East Coast". 2) My old apartment buildi...

Okay, I've got my blind point about this unfamiliar "from". It was inspired by my old apartment building when I lived on the East Coast". -It was inspired at the time when I lived there. It is inspired by my old apartment building from when I lived on the East Coast" - It's inspi...

1) Etwas anderes/ Noch etwas, das ich getan habe, ist Kuchen zu backen.
2) Was ich noch getan habe, ist, Kuchen zu backen.
(Another thing I have done is baking a cake.)

Q: Are all the German expressions equally natural? Thank you.