01-31-2011, 07:42 PM
Dear friends, what is better: "Sie ist eine Berlinerin" or "Sie is ein Berliner" (I am speaking, of course, of the most famous lady from Berlin).
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01-31-2011, 07:42 PM
Dear friends, what is better: "Sie ist eine Berlinerin" or "Sie is ein Berliner" (I am speaking, of course, of the most famous lady from Berlin).
01-31-2011, 10:39 PM
Hello
well, actually I think none of the suggested expressions is adequate. What do you want to say? Please don´t use the second suggestion. In Germany the term "Berliner" is also used for this: http://www.google.de/images?um=1&hl=de&c...CDAQ1QIoAQ and both suggestions remind me of JFK "Ich bin ein Berliner" you could say "Sie befindet sich im Bestand/Besitz des Ägyptischen Museums Berlin"
regards
noxia /Suzi
01-31-2011, 10:52 PM
The idea was to paraphrase the words of Kennedy - I want to say "She is a Berliner" (which of course she is, just like curry and the Unter den Linden).
02-01-2011, 01:37 AM
If you talk about a person and not about a sausage you would say:
"Sie ist eine Berlinerin" If you want to avoid using this because of any sausage associations (counts for people from Hamburg as well in connection with meat balls :mrgreen: ) you could say: "Sie wohnt in Berlin" (she lives in Berlin) or "Sie ist aus Berlin" (she is from Berlin) or "Sie wurde in Berlin geboren" (she was born in Berlin)
02-01-2011, 11:55 PM
I would add that since you want to allude to JFK, I definitely would say "Sie ist eine Berlinerin". However, idiomatically just as correct/or more correct would be "Sie ist Berlinerin" (but that doesn't allude to JFK's not quite that idiomatic "Ich bin ein Berliner", better would have been: Ich bin Berliner). I guess it shows that I'm a translator/stickler for words/style, sigh... :lol:
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Christoph
02-02-2011, 02:29 PM
In addition to Svenja this goes for Frankfurt to.
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