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> As a German, the word I'm really missing when speaking English is the simple word "doch", which more or less means "No, but yeah". As a college student I liv
by memling 7y ago
> As a German, the word I'm really missing when speaking English is the simple word "doch", which more or less means "No, but yeah".
As a college student I lived with a few German speakers. I felt like I had "arrived" with the language during an exchange in which I said, "Ich kann nicht Deutsch" and the native speaker said, "Doch."
Of course the nuances are a bit more complex than that, and English (it feels to me) uses intonation and inflection more than particles to communicate meaning.
- jgwil2 7y agoAgree about the intonation vs particles. Sometimes a word like wohl would be most naturally translated into English by italics.