#learning german

Niebüll ist eine Stadt in Schleswig-Holstein mit etwa zehntausend Leuten. Sie befindet sich nur zwölf Kilometer von der dänischen Grenze. Sie ist wichtig für den Transport, weil sie Ausgangsort des Autozugverkehrs Niebüll-Westerland auf dem nordfriesischen Festland ist. Die Stadt ist sehr alt, und wurde durch den Dreißigjährigen Krieg, den Dänischen-Schwedischen Krieg von 1658 bis 1660 sowie den Großen Nordischen Krieg schwer beschädigt. Heute hat der Bahnhof beide IC-Züge und lokalische Züge. Es gibt ein paar Sehenswürdigkeiten in der Stadt, zum Beispiel das Freilichtmuseum “Friesisches Museum” und das Naturkundemuseum. Niebüll hat Städtepartnerschaften mit Malmesbury im Vereinigten Königreich, Płoty in Polen und Gien in Frankreich.

Levana pinched her lips together. Her face was motionless, apart from that she slowly pulled her ears back and almost unnoticeably bit her teeth together.

- Cinder, book 1 of the Lunar Chronicles, Queen Lavana at the ball

So… pulled her ears back? In anger she bared her teeth and pulled back her ears?'

…

Both the campers were lead to the next truck and taken away at high speed.

I don’t know what story they told the campers. Maybe the rangers told them that a dangerous fugitive wad in the area.

Or that a wildfire had broken out. I don’t know. I only know that those two campers were gotten away from here before they even knew what happened.

- book 3, Tobias seeing controllers clear the area

She heard a quiet hum, as if her hair was full of static.

His magic, right. Bioelectricity, humming quietly in him. Could anyone nearby hear it, or was that a further indicator of her awakened gift?

- Cinder, book 1 of the Lunar Chronicles, while being captured by Jacin at the ball

It’s amazing how much I actually do miss, when I listen to audiobooks. I’ve listened to this series several times; that’s why I chose to read it in German so early! It’s in my regular rotation!

And I never once caught that Cinder can HEAR bioelectricity. You know, like the sound of your hair full of static. That common experience that everyone can refer to.

Her fingers crumpled and disappeared; now remained black stubby nails.

- book 3, Cassie first morphing a wolf

That’s a typo, right?

“stummei” keeps going back to “stumm” - dumb, mute. “stummeiförmige” - mute-shaped - doesn’t really even make sense as a word. “mute-shaped” nails?

“Stummel” - stump, stub - makes perfect sense. “Stummelförmige” - stub-shaped - stubby. Stubby nails makes perfect sense here, as a description for wolf claws.

Deutsch

zwar (tsva:r) - zwar... aber (admittedly... but): "Wir hatten zwar viele Probleme, aber letztlich hat es sich auf jeden Fall gelohnt." / und zwar = namely: "Er hat was Tolles gemacht! Und zwar hat er geschmacksfreies Eis erfunden." OR intensifying a request or commad: "Du musst gehen, und zwar sofort!

-> trotzdem = anyhow, nevertheless, ALSO trzdem, dennoch: "Ich verstehe deine Sichtweise (point of view). Trotzdem bin ich anderer Meinung (I am of a different opinion) / auf jeden Fall = definitely, ALSO auf keinen Fall, keinesfalls, keineswegs/anyhow, in any case, at any rate, also jedenfalls/ gelohnt = lohnen = to be worthwhile, to pay off: "Es lohnt sich!." "All die Muehe hat sich ordentlich gelohnt" (All the effort has paid of nicely) / sofort = immediately, at once (so+vort = forth, soon)

hält ... fest = 3rd person singular present of festhalten = to hold on (to) (to keep another object of person in place; keep oneself in place by gripping a fixture) also to detain, hold in custody ALSO to remain steadfast (in) [with an (+dative) to/in a commitment, plan, ideology, system] ALSO to record, to capture (an event), to clearly state, to say for the record

-> "W.H. Renz hält in seiner Beschreibung fest, dass die..."

-> Ich möchte festhalten, dass ich dem nicht grundsätzlich ablehnend gegenüberstehe. = I want to clearly state that I am not fundamentally opposed to this. / ablehnend = rejecting, refusing, negative/ gegenüberstehe = to face, to stand f2f, to contradict each other, to contrast, also sports, to play against each other

je nachdem (adverb)

as the case may be, depending on the circumstances, depending on which is the case

(with ob (“whether”), or with any interrogative) depending on je nachdem, ob man es gut findet ― depending on whether one likes it je nachdem, wer es ist ― depending on who it is je nachdem, wann ― depending on when [it is], depending on the time

gegeben = given, preexisting, factual

wesentlicher = inflection of wesentlich = essential, crucial, principal, significant ANTONYMS unwesentlich, nebensaechlich, unwichtig; a calque of Latin essentialis since Wesen = creature, essence, substance, character

Bestandteil = component, element, ingredient

Aufenthalt = stay, residence, presence (the state of being in a place); sojorn, stop (a short stay); (literary) residence (a place where one lives or stays)