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Einführung Hallo! Mein Name ist Mary. Ich bin ein Kunstkurator. Ich studiere Museologie in England. Mein Hobby ist stricken. Ich liebe der Winter. Das ist gut weil ich komme aus Nordkanada. Wir habe kalte Winter aber es ist schon. Ich studiere Deutsch weil ich liebe die Kultur, Essen und der Weihnachtmarkt! Danke!

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Hallo! Mein Name ist Mary. Ich bin eine Kunstkuratorin. Ich studiere Museologie in England.
Mein Hobby ist stricken.
Ich liebe den Winter. Das ist gut weil ich aus Nordkanada (aus dem Norden Kanadas) komme. Wir haben kalte Winter aber es ist schön. Ich studiere Deutsch weil ich die Kultur, Essen und den Weihnachtmarkt liebe.
Danke!


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Hallo! Mein Name ist Mary. Ich bin ein Kunstkurator. Ich studiere Museologie in England.
Mein Hobby ist stricken.
Ich liebe den (1) Winter. Das ist gut, weil ich komme aus Nordkanada komme (2). Wir haben (3) kalte Winter aber es ist schön. Ich lerne (4) Deutsch, weil ich liebe die Kultur, das (5) Essen und den (1) Weihnachtmarkt liebe (2)!

Danke!

 

Excellent composition, Mary! Just a couple of problems that seem to cause problems for beginners. 

 

1. Ich liebe den Winter/den Weihnachtsmarkt liebe -- Winter and Weihnachtsmarkt are masculine nouns in German. In both of these sentences, you're using the noun as a direct object, meaning that you are doing something to them. In this case, you're loving them. When a noun is used as a direct object, it's in the accusative case. You show this by changing the article or other determiner (dies-, jed-, ein-, mein- etc) to it's accusative form. With masculine nouns, you add an -en to the end of the determiner. So "der" in the accustive case is "den."

 

2. , weil ich komme aus Nordkanada komme/weil ich die Kultur...liebe -- "weil" is a subordinating conjunction, which means that you send the conjugated verb, in this case "komme" or "liebe" to the end. You can find a list of subordinating conjunctions here:http://german.about.com/library/weekly/aa010910b.htm

 

3. Wir haben (3) -- In German, you have to change the verb form to match the subject (actor/doer) of the verb. If the subject of your verb is "wir", then the verb form will end in "-en." We do this a bit in English too. We can't say "He be" or "He am" or "He are" because we have to change "be" to "is" when "he" or any other singular noun or pronoun is the subject.

 

4. Studieren=major in something at a university. If you're majoring in German, then you used the right verb. Otherwise, lernen is used for all other purposes.

 

5. If you're giving a list of objects in German, you often have to repeat the article if each noun has a different gender. In English we can just say, "the bread, milk, and table" in German, since each of those has a different gender, you'll say "Das Brot, die Milch, und der Butter." *side note Butter is feminine in norther Germany.*

 

Hope this helps. Feel free to leave a comment if you need better clarification.  

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