Don't let man confuse you. Yes, man is a subject. But passive voice clauses can feature a subject. In fact, whatever is the accusative object in the active voice clause becomes the subject in the passive voice clause.
Heute nehmen einen die Leute unter 200 PS gar nicht mehr ernst.
Heute wird man...
Heute wird man von einem unter 200 PS gar nicht mehr ernstgenommen. In this sentence there are 3 elements: 1) man 2) von einem (subject of passive or object of active) 3) unter 200 PS (what is this?!) second subject or object?
Please start with the first example. I marked the accusative object of the active sentence bold. It becomes the subject of the passive sentence, also marked bold. Likewise, I marked the subject of the active sentence. It becomes an adverbial in the passive sentence.…
In the second example, I replaced the subject die Leute with the subject einer, and fixed the conjugation. That produced the adverbial von einem that you had missed in your question. …
In the third example, I replaced the subject einer with the subject man. That requires a small fix with the word order in the active sentence. The passive sentence stays the same.
Damals wo ein Golf mit 150 PS noch ein GTI war. Heute wird man unter 200 PS garnicht mehr ernst genommen. Weil die Autos so groß und schwer geworden sind.
Today cars under 200 hp are not taken seriously by people anymore. So, we just need von einem (by people) and unter 200 hp (cars). But there is also a man.
As far as I know and have studied so far: The object in active voice is always the subject in passive form and it is always in nominative form except when the object is in dative form (in active form) and it also remains in dative form as the subject of passive.
There is a default word order in German but that only means this word order has no special emphasis. And there are also certain verbs, pronouns, and phrasings that call for a slightly different default order.
Yes. There are tons of Franco-Belgian and French comics with excellent German translations, tons of Manga with excellent German translations, and the translations of Disney comics are legendary.
It was also written that even when German people talk in English, they tend to translate German idioms into English literally which confuses English people!
For example they say you have tomato in your eyes or something like that!!
But the sad thing is that even Germans themselves confessed to me that many German people have only an average understanding of German and they have seen many foreigners that speak better German than natives!!
Or what they mean is that foreigners know Standard German while many native speakers use their dialect. Most dialects have their own grammar rules which are slightly different from Standard German.
For example, genitive case is not used in most dialects.
Hochdeutsch is a synonym for Standard German, yes. That is because Niederdeutsch is a different language that was commonly spoken in the northern flatlands (hence "Nieder"), and that language did not become the standard.
But this does **not** apply to genitive attributes. For example *Das ist der Kern des Problems.* is much more common than *Das ist der Kern von dem Problem.*
For example they say: Verb is always preceded by subject if the sentence is started with anything but the subject. When they use the word always, it means there is no exception to the rule but there is!
Ich muss ein Taxi zum Stadion nehmen.
This isn't an accusative object followed by a dative object, but a noun accusative object followed by a directional adverbial. You may also see zum Stadion as a complement describing ein Taxi more in detail. Compare last train to London or highway to hell.
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A German woman told me that German language has changed a lot since her childhood. This made me frustrated. I thought by learning German today I will not be able to understand old German texts which is very important to me.
But you have to remember that the V2 verb isn't in second position when you place nicht or adverbs that modify the verbs. It's still at that position near the end of the clause at that point.
Ahh, no. You can understand German texts from 1700 just fine.
His official speeches are excellent as they were written by professional authors. Gems of propaganda. What he devised himself is scatterbrained at best.
The accusative object is mandatory for bewegen. That's why there is a sich. Most German verbs are like that. There are only a very few intransitive verbs in German.
That's a very common use of sich and it makes you wonder how many reflexive verbs there are in German when they are actually only mandatory transitive.
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