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"in" actually happens to mean more or less the same in German :-) Of course, it's not quite grammatical without the determiner, making it "in dem Papierkorb" w
by unhammer 6y ago
"in" actually happens to mean more or less the same in German :-)
Of course, it's not quite grammatical without the determiner, making it "in dem Papierkorb" which contracts to "im Papierkorb", but then you could say that about English as well, still we don't write "in:the bin", so "in:Papierkorb" should be OK.
If you want a challenge, there are languages that prefer postpositions ("Trash:in"?) or case suffixes ("Trashin"?) or even circumfixes ("iTrashn"??) – and some case suffixes may happen to be formally equal to the nominative for certain words (so "Trash" could be ambiguous between "in:Trash" and "Trash"). Happy localising.
- jerf 6y agoIn this case, I'd say the colon is "localized" to the "computer" language, which can stay constant in all human languages as it is equally a foreign language in all human languages. Though the order could be changed as appropriate. Despite the advances in AI, computers still need humans to meet them in the middle in their own language quite a bit.
- vertis 6y agoThat's really useful for my German learning. I knew that "im" was "in the" I didn't realise it was a contraction. Very slowly learning the language.