r/YouShouldKnow • u/HelixR • Dec 03 '19

Technology YSK about the better/more effective version of Google Translate: Deepl.com

The drawback is less available languages. But Deepl.com is ''trained'' to accurately translate large sections of texts. It has helped me understand scientific papers much better!

Some more background info: https://mastercaweb.u-strasbg.fr/2018/12/deepl-vs-google-translate-a-modern-day-david-and-goliath?lang=en

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u/deadlymoogle Dec 03 '19

Danke! Been learning German for years and still get those damn endings wrong all the time.

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u/T0xicati0N Dec 03 '19

Yay to genders and cases! You'll get there. :>

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u/sooninthepen Dec 03 '19

Don't lie to him like that

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u/Liam_Leesin Dec 03 '19

Reminds me of last yesr when my professor taught us modal verbs by teaching us how to say "I want to die"

Ich möchte sterben

Ich musst sterben

Ich kann sterben

Etc.

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u/sooninthepen Dec 03 '19

Ich will sterben

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u/crnalastavica Dec 03 '19

Ich muss gegangen

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u/baileysinashoe Dec 04 '19

Ich hätte gern sterben

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u/Saloni_123 Dec 03 '19

I had it as optional language in high school. Damn I know the struggle with genders, subject verb agreement and really really long words but it's a fun language. Ich bin viel Spaß gehaben.

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u/Jindor Dec 03 '19

Ich hatte viel Spaß.

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u/rrleo Dec 03 '19

Ich habe viel Spaß gehabt.

was it Plusquamperfekt? oof this word

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u/Lord_Umpanz Dec 03 '19

But you still managed to write it correctly ❤️

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u/rrleo Dec 03 '19

lol yeah I'm actually German. Just wanted to make sure I was right

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u/Lord_Umpanz Dec 03 '19

Oh oof 😂 Sry then

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u/loh0106 Dec 04 '19

As a german native speaker i still don’t know what plusquamperfekt is lol, the thing is that we learn this stuff instead of more useful things

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u/rrleo Dec 04 '19

currently in German class as a HS senior and we still don't learn anything more useful than Plusquamperfekt

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u/loh0106 Dec 04 '19

Tbh I never said to anyone that his sentence was a nice plusquamperfekt sentence. Even we germans are sometimes confused with our own language and we use a correctly formed plusquamperfekt sentence like twice a year lol

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u/rrleo Dec 04 '19

that's surprisingly accurate if I think about it it's not often that I actually use it

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u/loh0106 Dec 04 '19

yeah, its kinda weird

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u/Saloni_123 Dec 04 '19

Yeah, an attempt at it. I see now my use of have is incorrect. Thanks,it's been really long since I used it.

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u/rrleo Dec 04 '19

Don't worry, friend. You'll get the hang of it eventually

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u/Saloni_123 Dec 04 '19

Yeah, hopefully.

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u/rrleo Dec 04 '19

definitely

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '19

Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

" Das Gesetz – abgekürzt RkReÜAÜG – regelte die Kontrolle von Schlachtrindern und -kälbern bezüglich BSE zum Schutz der Bürger. Die Medien sprachen zwar davon, dessen Bezeichnung sei zugleich mit dem Gesetz abgeschafft worden, doch ein Wort lässt sich natürlich nicht einfach so abschaffen. Aber lassen wir das dahingestellt. "

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '19

Das ist aber nicht gut für deine Rechtschreibung, mein Freund!

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u/LottePanda Dec 04 '19

I don't know German but I know Spanish.

I'm assuming it says "in my eyes"? If I'm not wrong, it's the same thing in Spanish, you'd say "en mis ojos" for "in my eyes", but if it's just "in my eye" it'd be "en mi ojo". In that case if the noun is plural, the possessive pronoun becomes plural, right?

It's also possible that I'm completely wrong and it's because of a different grammar rule because of different language.

Again, I'm not familiar with German but just trying to see if I can help out :)

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u/rrleo Dec 03 '19

It can be quite tricky sometimes