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[Carlos del Vaca]

Durch, Ohne, Gegen, Für and (und) Um take accusative case.

Aus, ausser, bei, mit, nach, seit, von, zu, and (my favorite) gegenüber take dative.

Then there's some that are accusative if they're used involving motion, and dative if involving position.  And others that are genetive, but I never use those.

Verrückte Scheisse.

[St_Zartan]

Aus, ausser, bei, mit, nach, seit, von, zu, and (my favorite) gegenüber take dative.

The best way to remember the dative prepositions is to sing them along to that familiar passage from the Blue Danube waltz.

Aus Außer Bei Mit! Nach Seit! Von Zu! As far as fuck*ng gegenüber goes, you're on your own.

I've got about a million of these retarded mneumonic devices. Retarded ones being the only ones that actually, you know, seem to really stick. Ernste Zeiten, Hunde.

[slink]

My aged German is beginning to fail me!
He's usually so good.

I forgot:
helenic.
Don't rightly know why.

[Ben-San]

I forgot:
helenic.

Is this "Hellenic" (like unto the Greeks) or an adjective I did not previously know (perhaps like unto specifically Helen of Troy, or maybe unto Helen Keller)?

[slink]

Is this "Hellenic" (like unto the Greeks) or an adjective I did not previously know (perhaps like unto specifically Helen of Troy, or maybe unto Helen Keller)?

Doh.
Like unto the Greeks indeed.
Didn't notice.

[side_show]

No Slink, don't you see!?  You should proudly claim to have created a new term "helenic: likened to Helen Keller, through great struggle to greatness.  eg: Slink's attempts to learn to spell were helenic."

[slink]

eg: Slink's attempts to learn to spell were helenic."

Well, I was quite impressed by the idea of an Helen Keller noun.
Though Keller is yeat another thing I only know about thanks to American TV.

[V-Adore]

My German is rusty and weather-beaten (it is vestigial, as opposed to my Japanese, which is rudimentary -- and have I mentioned that I love both rudimentary and vestigial?) but I still have some random chunks of it rattling around. The mnemonic device which has stuck best for me was the one we learned in first-year for conjugating "sei" -- Ich bin Pfeffer, du bist Pfeffer, er ist Pfeffer, sie ist Pfeffer, wir sind Pfeffer, ihr seid Pfeffer, sie sind Pfeffer... wollen Sie auch einen Pfeffer? Sei ein Pfeffer, trink Doktor Pfeffer!

I have a brain cell devoted to this, while senior-year calculus is entirely gone. There may or may not be a God, but this seems to suggest that if there is one, He's fuck*ng with me.

[andalucia]

Oh, the way of mnemonics is a slippery slope indeed.  My bio class was the worst for those.  I still get the steps of the Krebs Cycle running through my head thanks to "Cecil Is Ill Since Fanny Moved Out", and then there's my own invention, "King Philip Can Only Fear Gravel Sandwiches" for the levels of taxonomy.  Stupid brain, why must you work this way.

Sorry, I'm fairly silly... I just got back from several hours of canvassing politely for a bunch of damned socialists

[V-Adore]

Oh, the way of mnemonics is a slippery slope indeed.  My bio class was the worst for those.  I still get the steps of the Krebs Cycle running through my head thanks to "Cecil Is Ill Since Fanny Moved Out", and then there's my own invention, "King Philip Can Only Fear Gravel Sandwiches" for the levels of taxonomy.  Stupid brain, why must you work this way.

Both of these are gold, and I may want to steal them. I've always been weak with my Krebs cycle, a fact that has caused me great remorse (no, seriously).

[andalucia]

The Krebs Cycle and I got along famously.  I have a poster of it in my room, showing where the ATP is produced and everything.  Astonishingly, I also have friends.

[AlohaDawg]

My favorite was

"Come Over Some Day Maybe Play Poker - Three Jacks Cover Two Queens"

Anyone know what that one is for?

"Mary Visits Every Monday And Just Stays Until Noon Period" is the other one I can't forget.

[CortJstr]

my own invention, "King Philip Can Only Fear Gravel Sandwiches"

My 9th grade biology teacher taught it to us as King's People Come Over For Good Sex.

[arkabee]

Aus Außer Bei Mit! Nach Seit! Von Zu! As far as fuck*ng gegenüber goes, you're on your own.

another word i like to say, out loud like, is "context".

it just rolls off the tounge.


ps- i have A Condition inregards to furry languages.

i have no idea.

[AugustWest]

The Krebs Cycle and I got along famously.  

I've always been a fan of the Maynard G. Krebs Cycle.  You know, the one where you start out with bongos and a goatee and end up stranded on a tropical island.