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[kittydesade]

Adjectives used as nouns:
Herr Schmidt ist ein Bekannter von mir. Mr. Schmidt is an acquaintance of mine.
Frau Schneider ist eine Bekannte von mir. Ms. Schneider is an acquaintance of mine.
Thomas hat keine Verwandten mehr in der Schweiz. Thomas has no relatives in Switzerland anymore.

Many adjectives can be used as nouns. They retain the un-preceded adjective endings as though a noun were still there: ein Deutscher (Mann), eine Deutsche (Frau). In writing, adjectives used as nouns are capitalized.

Aische und Mustafa sind beim Einkaufen im Supermarkt und Mustafa sieht dort einen Bekannten. Aische möchte wissen, wer das ist. Setzen Sie die fehlenden Adjektivendungen ein.

AISCHE: Kennst du den großen Blonden dort? Er hat dir gewinkt.
MUSTAFA: Ja, er ist ein gute Bekannter von mir. Er ist Arzt im Marienhospital, und zwar Orthopäde. Die Kranke dort sind bei ihm in besten Händen.
AISCHE: Ist er Deutscher?
MUSTAFA: Nein, Kanadier.
AISCHE: Und die Kleine neben ihm ist sicher seine Tochter, nicht?
MUSTAFA: Ja, und dort beim Obst steht seine Frau. Sie ist Deutsche. Sie hat in Kanada studiert und da haben sie sich kennen gelernt.
AISCHE: In Kanada?
MUSTAFA: Ja, viele Deutsche studieren in den USA oder in Kanada... Ach, hallo James, wie geht es dir...



In informal speech, you can add って at the end of a sentence instead of そうです, to quote what you have heard. って is the informal variant of the quotation participle to and follows the short forms much in the same way as といっていました and そうです.

Thus, when your friend Mary says,
今日は忙しいです。　明日、しけんがあるんです。
you can report it as:
メアリーさん、今日は忙しいって。　明日、しけんがあるんだって

You can also use って in place of the quotation particle to before verbs like 言う
あきらさんは何で言ってた。
What did Akira say?
チョコレートを食べすぎたって言ってた。
He said he ate too much chocolate.


No, really. Why is the cake a Storm Trooper?

Well, that was rough. On so many levels, first of all being that I adore my grumpy old bastards with all of my heart and I don't like it when they fight. And secondly being that it's really hard to write proper angst when you're writing from the third person limited point of view of a grumpy old bastard who isn't really given to angst. But I got them out of that scene and onto the next, and I'll call that a victory.

I did have the strange incident ... okay, first of all, I posted a new piece of the Ruby/Gold saga of self-indulgence tonight. All That Glitters, seriously you guys I could go on making bad gem/jewel/shiny cliche titles for ages with this pairing. And it really is pure self-indulgence, there's nothing in canon that substantiates it and I don't goddamn well care. But I posted it, and the usual suspects came and drooled all over it and made my self-indulgent heart glad to know I'm not alone. And then I remembered that one of these people had a tumblr, so being the insecure writer that I am I went to see if they'd tumbl'd anything about this. Which they hadn't.

They had, however, tumbl'd something else about a different story of mine. About a purely self-insert story of mine, because the story couldn't go that way, because I didn't believe Rumpelstiltskin caused a whole giant ogre battle to be lost all by himself, because I don't believe one random guard who barely recognizes him by face or by name knows what the hell happened to his wife. Especially when said guard seems to enjoy going out of his way to be a jackass. So I made up some canon and jammed it in there sideways, and since it required a character of 'Rumpelstiltskin's wife', I made one up. Me! Because I do not at all crush on Robert Carlyle I have no idea what the hell you're talking about. And because I have Opinions about what happened to him. And because I actually know how to spin and dye and weave, and it tickles me all shades of pink that Carlyle seems to have learned for the role. Or maybe he already knew. No clue.

So anyway, this person had linked to it. And said something about the OC being "a total badass." After going on about obvious self-inserts in much the same tones that I do, and then I feel guilty about writing the same thing. And then someone fangirls all over it and I feel weird. So, that happened.

Then again, some days it seems like all my female characters who don't strictly follow someone else's pattern are self-inserts. So maybe it's just me.

Anyway. So, I finished the Ruby/Gold thing, did some more on Long Road. Started a prequel to the Rumplestiltskin and his lady fic wherein he's a shy but much more whole young man courting a pretty girl, and now I have a pile of fic to work on this weekend. Original stuff, novel plotting, but also that and my Plunkett & Macleane fic sequel, not to mention something in New Amsterdam and J3 needs to get finished and posted. That ought to keep me from thinking about house shit for a while.