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German help, please

shadowtippy

shadowtippy

Mar 13, 2009
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I did a search, but couldn't find this.
Is the translation for the first two words: Illustrated Cookbook?
I speak pretty good 'Murican, but that is my only language.
The book was printed in 1860 in Berlin.
Thanks.
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hrodbert696 said:
Yes, it's an illustrated cookbook. My German is getting rusty, but the cookbook may be "for all social classes" (?), unless that's for all "situations."

EDIT: I just realized it's probably "for all levels (of ability)."
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Du hast recht.
 
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Bob Lee (QSC) said:
Du hast recht.
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Recht doesn't translate to the form of "right" that I believe you meant.
Recht means right as in justice, claim or privilege.

I realize that the sentence you used may have been suggested by Google translate.
But Google doesn't speak actual day-to-day German.
Richtig or korrekt would be the proper word to use.

Not being mean, just wanted you to know.
 
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SunnBass said:
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Nope. "Stand" means literally a place to stand or a step, but it therefore means a level and "Staende" can be levels of all kinds of things. Since most of my German reading was in history I got used to it referring to social classes, but in this case I think it would have to be skill levels.

SunnBass said:
Recht doesn't translate to the form of "right" that I believe you meant.
Recht means right as in justice, claim or privilege.

I realize that the sentence you used may have been suggested by Google translate.
But Google doesn't speak actual day-to-day German.
Richtig or korrekt would be the proper word to use.

Not being mean, just wanted you to know.
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Uh, nope again. "Du hast recht" is the standard German idiom for "you're right." You can say "Das ist richtig" but if you said "Du bist richtig" a German would look at you funny. "Korrekt" is a borrowing and I never heard Germans use it much. The other expression one might use is "Das stimmt." Die Stimme is a voice, but used as a verb "stimmen" is to use your voice or, normally, to agree, and the idea to "Das stimmt" is "that agrees (with reality)."
 
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hrodbert696 said:
Nope. "Stand" means literally a place to stand or a step, but it therefore means a level and "Staende" can be levels of all kinds of things. Since most of my German reading was in history I got used to it referring to social classes, but in this case I think it would have to be skill levels.



Uh, nope again. "Du hast recht" is the standard German idiom for "you're right." You can say "Das ist richtig" but if you said "Du bist richtig" a German would look at you funny. "Korrekt" is a borrowing and I never heard Germans use it much. The other expression one might use is "Das stimmt." Die Stimme is a voice, but used as a verb "stimmen" is to use your voice or, normally, to agree, and the idea to "Das stimmt" is "that agrees (with reality)."
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Yes, I stated the part about stand and skill levels under the screenshot.

For me "Du hast recht" is incorrect. However, I do not speak high German, I speak the Bavarian dialect.
Which most Germans refer to as "Beschwipst sprache".

For example: Ich heisse Paul (high german) I bin da Paul (Bavarian).
 
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