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(WIP) As a uni student in Germanic languages (first year), I'm going to be putting everything that I learn in this iceberg sorted by obscurity.
"angry language"
Indo-European
Germanic family
Long words
Compounding nouns
3 genders
Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
Belgium and Luxembourg
ä, ö, and ü
ß
Pronouns
sie, sie and Sie
4 cases
Nomative
Accusative
Dative
"Untranslatable" words
Capitalization of common nouns
"one and twenty"
Coordinating conjunctions
Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
German natives unable to identify cases
Dialect continuum
„...“
Pronunciation of 'j'
-en
-ig
Fraktur
Comparatives and superlatives
Noun ending for gender
Ach-Laut and Ich-Laut
Genitive
V2 word order
Declensions
adDA rule
TeKaMoLo rule
Orthography
Triple letters
Weak and strong verbs
Weak and strong nouns
Mixed nouns
Prepositions
Separable and unseperable verbs
Impersonal verbs and 'es'
halb acht
Switzerland and Liechtenstein spelling
Modal verbs
werden
hin and her
All present and past participles can be adjectives
All adjectives can be adverbs
»...«
Verbs requiring prepositions
Genitive with proper names
Irregular adjectives with the comparative and superllative
derjenige declensions
Same words changing meaning by gender
um... zu
doch
ph and f
Vowel alternation
un-
wiederum
Older German verbs had a different conjugation
-ieren without ge
No german dictionary is complete
Number of words in German
Official language in Italy
Writing reforms
German orthography reform of 1996
Latin, French, and English influences
Verbs requiring the dative
Eventual extinction of the genitive
Two-way prepositions
unheimlich
Regional differences in auxiliary usage
Passive tenses
Passive alternatives
Modal particles
Non V2 word order
Rhotic variation
Usage of hyphens in words
Subordinate clauses fronted by prepositions
Nominalstil
eines Tages
usage of sollen and wollen in non-modal situations
‚...‘
›...‹
es wird geworden worden sein
Expletive es
Kurrent
Verbs requiring multiple prepositions
Meaning of inseparable prefix of verbs
da with prepositions
denen
derer vs. deren
Multiple possible genders for the same noun
Multiple possible pluralization of a word
derzeit vs. der Zeit
Circumpositions and postpositions
das instead of es in first position
National language of Namibia
Foreign color names declensions
Verbs requiring the genitive
Teuschland
Three-case preposition
Kiezdeutsch
Uncommonly used tenses
Articles with proper nouns
Double perfect
«...»
Expletive da
German orthography reform of 1996
Usage of Fraktur in Nazi Germany
Causative verbs
Rarely used irregular form of verbs
Riograndenser Hunsrückisch
ẞ (capital ß)
vielversprechend vs. viel versprechend
Vocative in German
Archaic prepositions
Walser German
Suppression of German in Brazil
ſ (long s)
Oberdeutscher Präteritumschwund
Other
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