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[kittydesade]

Word order with expressions of time and place.

Sie geht heute in die Buchhandling.
She's going to the bookstore today.

When a German sentence contains both a time expression and a place expression, the time expression precedes the place expression. This is reversed in English.

Your friend is trying to guess when you're going to do various errands. Confirm the guesses.

1. Wann gehst du in den Supermarkt? Um neun? Ja, ich gehe um neun in den Supermarkt.
2. Wann gehst du in die Buchhandlung? Morgen? Ja, ich gehe Morgen in die Buchhandlung.
3. Wann gehst du zum Backer? Später? Ja, ich gehe später zum Backer.
4. Wann gehst du in die Apotheke? Heute Morgen? Ja, ich gehe Heute Morgen in die Apotheke.
5. Wann gehst du ins Kaufhaus? Jetzt? Ja, ich gehe jetzt in Kaufhaus.

And I really will not remember that unless I repeat it a hell of a lot more, so...

Ich gehe Samstag in den Supermarkt.
Du gehst joggen Morgens in den Park.
Ich gehe wandern Morgens in den Park.
Astrid und Sascha gehen jetzt zur Bäckerei Lieb.

Oof. I don't have brain to make up more sentences, but that's something to practice, along with location prepositions and the accusative case, and the gender of locations.


My hands look like a circus clown puked on them. That's what my aunt has now told me this scattered, multicolored look is, clown puke. It amuses me particularly because of the "technicolor yawn" euphemism for vomiting. (Look, I remembered the e!) Oh my god, my hands are wrinkly and covered in dye.

I also have nine shirts tie-dyed and marked with the amounts of dye and urea I used for each, and I did not tie-dye the entire kitchen, so I consider it a win. Also, note to self: 1/2 hour soda soaks are all well and good, but for god's sake WRING YOUR SHIRTS OUT BETTER WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OUT, WOMAN. That's half your mess problem there, wring the damn things out or you will slop dye all over the place. I need to print up a copy of the tie-dye riff and scrawl notes all over it. So far it looks like more dye = darker color, more urea = deeper color, but I'm not sure yet. Need half a cup more urea to check. And to boil the fuck out of the shirts.

Oof. Time to brush teeth and crash hard. Japanese corrections and catching up on the writing I meant to do tonight until tie-dye ran late... all happens tomorrow.