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Can I say this?

  • 08-12-2013 8:06pm
    #1
    theroomisonfire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 474 ✭✭


    Hi

    I'm just working on a sentence as part of a German exercise.

    Does the below sentence make sense?

    Dann beschweren sie sich bitte bei unserem neuem kuechenchef

    In particular, are the adjective endings correct?

    Thanks in advance


Comments

  • #2
    lucky333
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 190 ✭✭lucky333


    Nine


  • #3
    lucky333
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 190 ✭✭lucky333


    Sorry!


  • #4
    theroomisonfire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 474 ✭✭theroomisonfire


    lucky333 wrote: »
    Nine

    Can you correct the sentence


  • #5
    lucky333
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 190 ✭✭lucky333


    I don't know German, still learning English ;)


  • #6
    innad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 306 ✭✭innad


    Try this:
    Dann beschweren Sie sich bitte bei unserem neuen Küchenchef
    :)


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  • #7
    John C
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 326 ✭✭John C


    innad wrote: »
    Try this:
    Dann beschweren Sie sich bitte bei unserem neuen Küchenchef
    :)

    Innad's answer is correct. Here is a grammatical explanation.

    The corrected parts are in bold:
    Dann beschweren Sie sich bitte bei unserem neuen Küchenchef.

    The preposition bei causes the following noun to be in
    the dative case    . Thus unserem is correct.
    You had the second adjective as neuem, correct is neuen. Only the first
    adjective describing the noun declines to ***em.
    Subsequent adjectives have the en ending.

    In English only the first word, a proper noun and the pronoun "I" are capitalised.
    In any part of a German sentence a noun is capitalised. Correct is Küchenchef.

    Viel Spaß beim lernen. John C


  • #8
    theroomisonfire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 474 ✭✭theroomisonfire


    This is very helpful. Thanks for taking the time to provide such a helpful explanation.

    John C wrote: »
    Innad's answer is correct. Here is a grammatical explanation.

    The corrected parts are in bold:
    Dann beschweren Sie sich bitte bei unserem neuen Küchenchef.

    The preposition bei causes the following noun to be in
    the dative case    . Thus unserem is correct.
    You had the second adjective as neuem, correct is neuen. Only the first
    adjective describing the noun declines to ***em.
    Subsequent adjectives have the en ending.

    In English only the first word, a proper noun and the pronoun "I" are capitalised.
    In any part of a German sentence a noun is capitalised. Correct is Küchenchef.

    Viel Spaß beim lernen. John C


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