german question.

[chibibecci]

Have just restarted learning German after a year and am confused by the word order in sentences. Could someone please explain how it works?
Also, is the verb 'vorstellen' a seperable verb?
Thank you

[Deutschland]

Originally Posted by chibibecci

Have just restarted learning German after a year and am confused by the word order in sentences. Could someone please explain how it works?
Also, is the verb 'vorstellen' a seperable verb?
Thank you

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yes it is, example: Was möchte ich? -> Ich möchte mich vorstellen.

[chibibecci]

Thanks, so if you're saying 'they introduced themselves' would you say: 'sie stellen sich vor'?

[Deutschland]

Originally Posted by chibibecci

Thanks, so if you're saying 'they introduced themselves' would you say: 'sie stellen sich vor'?

Sie stellten sich vor. "stellten" cause its past sentence

[chibibecci]

Thanks,
Also, is beeilen a seperable verb?

[Deutschland]

Originally Posted by chibibecci

Thanks,
Also, is beeilen a seperable verb?

yes, it is ^^

[chibibecci]

I have another question:
if I'm trying to say "Some people would say that there is often some noisy people"
Would it be: "Manche Leute würden sagen dass, es oft gibt manche leute die laut sind."
I'm not sure if I have put some of the verbs in the right places :S
Also, when you have 'weil' in a sentence I know that the verb after this goes to the end of the sentence, but if there are three verbs that come after 'weil' where one of them is a modal verb?
Eg. 'because you won't know what to watch'
Thanks

[Luca]

at Deutschland,
i dont want to offend you but i think it would help if you looked up what you write about german before claiming wrong statements.

firstly: "vorstellen" is seperable, but in the example it isnt seperated.
better : "Stell dir vor!"

secondly: "beeilen" is NOT a seperable verb
you wont find a sentece as "Eile be dich" (WRONG!!!) or "Er hat sich eilt be" (WRONG!!!)

thirdly: your sentence, chibibecci, is in german : "Manche Leute würden sagen, dass es oft laute Leute gibt."

"dass" is, as "weil", a word that is always after a comma, "gibt" is the main verb that is at the end of the sentence, but you used a relative sentece, so that would be "Manche Leute würden sagen, dass es oft Leute gibt, die laut sind." But actually i think your english sentence should be changed a bit...

fourthly: the sentence in german is: "... weil du nicht wissen wirst, was du dir ansehen sollst."
unlike the english sentence, you cannot use a to infinitive, so after all you have three verbs :
"wissen wirst" (this is only one verb because the "wirst" is used to express the future of "wissen", you conjugate "wirst", so it is at the end of the sentece), "ansehen" (an infinitve, you could conjugate it too, but the sense of the sentence is expressed better if you use the third verb "sollst", which is at the end of the following relative sentece, that replaces the to infinitive.

if you retranslate my sentence into english, it would be : "... because you will not know, what you should watch."

i know this was a bit confusing and maybe you dont understand what i said (im not a teacher ), cause youre question was very hard to answer (im sure many germans dont know why they say it, they just do it because of their feeling), but at least you got an answer