- grammar - The difference between mein and meine - German Language . . .
2) Meine I selected Mein which I found to be incorrect In the discussion thread somebody who claimed to be a native speaker mentioned that if some adjectives are used directly before the noun, then it should be 'Meine' But here no adjective is used before the noun, Hemden, but still 'Meine' is correct I don't understand why
- How to find out when to use mein or meine? [closed]
Mein Ideal (singular subject) vs Meine Ideale (plural subject) Thus you see, you have to determine the gender or plurality of the subject word in first place (which isn't actually following regular rules in German, and you just need to memorize the irregularities) to decide, if you use mein or meine for each particular case
- Possessive pronoun: Why mein Auto, not meinen Auto?
The reason why "mein" is correct in your example is the 'gender' of the word "Auto" More specifically, "mein" is for words that have would have the "das" article, while "meine" is female and used for words that would have the "die" article For words with the male "der" article, "meinen" would be used here
- Ich meine == I mean? - German Language Stack Exchange
Ich meine, dass das nicht funktiniert Here, meine doesn't mean mean but rather suspect, guess or be of the opinion In German, meinen is way more in the corner of opinion while the English to mean stretches toward information or content You can also see that when you look at the corresponding nouns meaning - die Bedeutung Meinung - opinion
- declension - When to use which pronoun declination: mein, meiner, meine . . .
I learned that a pronoun should take an ending in accordance with its gender, case, numerus, etc whenever it refers to some noun in particular — ‘Das Auto ist meins’ for example So in the following poem, why is mein used instead of meine, even though it specifically refers to die Jahre? Mein sind die Jahre nicht, die mir die Zeit genommen
- Is the term meine Liebe strong to a German?
Even people from "Schwabenland" (South-West-Germany, ~ Ba-Wü) use "meine Liebe" for addressing their loved ones Like @Stephie mentioned it highly depends on the context But the possesive meine is actually a very strong sign of addressing you like in "my love" (the same ambiguity like in English still applies)
- How can you tell apart the pronunciation at the end between meine and . . .
The two are different phonemes to a German ear, so to a German they sound sufficiently different to be distinguished However, the sounds are close It has been pointed out that meine uses an e-shwa ə while meiner uses what is often termed an a-shwa ɐ
- Why is it einer meiner twice and not eins eines and eine meine . . .
Why isn't it eines meines or eine meine? Because einer eine eines (indefinite pronoun) and meiner (possesive determiner, i e 'article' of the following noun) do not have the same case Einer eine eines acts like a noun itself and takes the case and number according to its role in the sentence, while meiner is dependent and congruent to its
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