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Nina Mattje
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Mar 16, 2020
It was lovely to meet you! Sehr nettes Gespräch! Hoffentlich bis bald! Vielen Dank und liebe Grüße!
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    Tony, that is incorrect. 'Convenient' means that it is 'handy' or 'practical' for something to be done or to happen. It is an adjective, not a verb or feeling. You cannot 'feel convenient'. 'A convenient time' means a time that is suitable, practical, appropriate and fitting, all of those at once. For example, you could say 'the shop is very close to my house, which is very convenient'. You could also say 'the shop is conveniently close to my house'. Tony, if you read this, your comment that a 'child is conveniently sad when they don't get their toy' is incorrect. Do you mean that the child starts cry at the right time, so that the parents have pity on her and give her her toy? If that is what you mean, then you are right, but convenient just means that it is 'handy' that it happened.
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    March 29, 2020
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    Hi Sasha! 'trouble' is an abstract noun. like the word 'time'. So, in other words, you can 'have time' but you can never 'have a time'. It is not a normal noun. With a normal noun, you could say i 'have a/an (the noun)' but with irregular nouns we cannot put 'a/an' in front of them. So, you can't put 'a/an' in front of 'trouble'. Hope that helped.
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    March 29, 2020
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    It sounds a little bit strange to say 'conveniently sad' because it is not usually used to describe the word 'sad'. I think it means that if the emperor was to become 'blind' without his glasses, then they would be able to cheat him off his wealth and the expenses wouldn't be so high. I think that is your conclusion as well. Hope this helps!
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    March 29, 2020
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    You would probably sound a bit strange if you said 'my hairs stand up'. There is another common way to say it and that would be: 'my hairs are standing on end'. It would sound a TINY bit strange, but I have definitely heard people say it before, and it is not weird!
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    March 29, 2020
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    If the person went shopping with you, then you say 'yes, he did'. If the question was ' he goes shopping with you, doesn't he?' (in the present) then you would say 'yes, he does'. Also in the present. Remember that if the question is talking about the past, then your answer will be in past tense, if the question is talking about the present, then your answer will be in the present tense.
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    March 29, 2020
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    das stimmt!
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    March 22, 2020
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    In this context, it means "spent" or "used up". It means that her parents spent the fortune that she would have inherited. It is a very strange phrase, because it doesn't mean what it looks like.
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    March 21, 2020
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    It is not always a negative connotation, but it is definitely not a positive one. If you said a situation was a circus, you could mean that it was out of control and noisy, or that it was simple energetic. The former is usually used the most.
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    March 18, 2020
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    This means that the kid had a bike with a lot of gears. Usully, this is seen as a sign of a broader range of speed settings and control, and therefore a betteer quality bike. In other words, the person wants the kid's bike because it is a good bike and has lots of gears.
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    March 18, 2020
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    They both mean the same thing, but "pulled me over" is more of a certainty that the police took you to the side of the road, whereas "flagged me down" could be "they flagged me down in the middle of the highway" it might be because they wanted to pull you over, or for other reasons.
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    March 18, 2020
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