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Is this meme accurate in the use of Mein and Meine?
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I saw that meme on Imgur and wondered about the usage of Meine and Mein, which lead me to this answer. From what I can tell from that answer, mein is for singular male, and meine is for everything else. The meme is using two forms of mein, so I was wondering if it was accurate? If it is accurate how so; since there's only one cat in the image?
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I saw that meme on Imgur and wondered about the usage of Meine and Mein, which lead me to this answer. From what I can tell from that answer, mein is for singular male, and meine is for everything else. The meme is using two forms of mein, so I was wondering if it was accurate? If it is accurate how so; since there's only one cat in the image?
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I saw that meme on Imgur and wondered about the usage of Meine and Mein, which lead me to this answer. From what I can tell from that answer, mein is for singular male, and meine is for everything else. The meme is using two forms of mein, so I was wondering if it was accurate? If it is accurate how so; since there's only one cat in the image?
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I saw that meme on Imgur and wondered about the usage of Meine and Mein, which lead me to this answer. From what I can tell from that answer, mein is for singular male, and meine is for everything else. The meme is using two forms of mein, so I was wondering if it was accurate? If it is accurate how so; since there's only one cat in the image?
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No, this usage of "mein" is not correct. It has to be "meine" since the grammatical gender of "(die) Wassermelone" is female in German. You might possibly think it could be "meine" because "(die) Katze", which is female in German, is expressing this sentence, but the gender of the speaker doesn't matter at all.
So the grammatically correct version of the meme is
Das ist meine Wassermelone. Meine.
From what I can tell from that answer, mein is for singular male, and
meine is for everything else.
"Mein" is also used for singular neuter, as in
Das ist mein Haus.
If it is accurate how so; since there's only one cat in the image?
Even if there were multiple cats in the image, the inflection of the possessive pronoun would still solely depend on the gender of "Wassermelone" and thus the sentence would have to read
Das ist unsere Wassermelone. Unsere.
answered 4 hours ago
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Some mistakes are common so they are an essential part of colloquial German like omitting the final e in verbs with ich e.g., ich hab'/ich hab. Is this incorrect usage of Mein is common in German? Or else why would supposedly a native speaker do such a mistake? Only a typo?
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This could actually be interpreted as correct, if you think of the single "mein" as a shortened sentence, where it the longer version was something like.
Die Melone ist mein.
Here "mein" is not inflected, because it isn't in an attributive position, and thus shouldn't be inflected either.
THis is also what you'd expect a very small child to say, when in conflict whith another child over a toy: "MEIN"
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I want to add to the previous answer. Such constructions are not always necessarily wrong. Endingless forms of possessives are sometimes used in special circumstances.
From Duden, Die Grammatik I quote:
Das nachgestellte attributive Possessivpronomen ist in bestimmten Fällen (in der
Bibelsprache und in der Poesie, besonders im Anruf) endungslos:
Vater unser, der du bist im Himmel... (Gebet). Nimm auf meine Seel' in die Hände
dein... (Uhland). Schöne Schwester mein ... (Penzoldt).
From Hammer's German Grammar and Usage I quote:
Endingless forms of the possessive are occasionally found in set phrases, archaic expressions or poetic language:
Dein ist mein Herz!
Die Welt ist unser.
Die Rache ist mein.
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No, this usage of "mein" is not correct. It has to be "meine" since the grammatical gender of "(die) Wassermelone" is female in German. You might possibly think it could be "meine" because "(die) Katze", which is female in German, is expressing this sentence, but the gender of the speaker doesn't matter at all.
So the grammatically correct version of the meme is
Das ist meine Wassermelone. Meine.
From what I can tell from that answer, mein is for singular male, and
meine is for everything else.
"Mein" is also used for singular neuter, as in
Das ist mein Haus.
If it is accurate how so; since there's only one cat in the image?
Even if there were multiple cats in the image, the inflection of the possessive pronoun would still solely depend on the gender of "Wassermelone" and thus the sentence would have to read
Das ist unsere Wassermelone. Unsere.
answered 4 hours ago
fragezeichen
1,602317
Some mistakes are common so they are an essential part of colloquial German like omitting the final e in verbs with ich e.g., ich hab'/ich hab. Is this incorrect usage of Mein is common in German? Or else why would supposedly a native speaker do such a mistake? Only a typo?
– User
51 mins ago
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No, this usage of "mein" is not correct. It has to be "meine" since the grammatical gender of "(die) Wassermelone" is female in German. You might possibly think it could be "meine" because "(die) Katze", which is female in German, is expressing this sentence, but the gender of the speaker doesn't matter at all.
So the grammatically correct version of the meme is
Das ist meine Wassermelone. Meine.
From what I can tell from that answer, mein is for singular male, and
meine is for everything else.
"Mein" is also used for singular neuter, as in
Das ist mein Haus.
If it is accurate how so; since there's only one cat in the image?
Even if there were multiple cats in the image, the inflection of the possessive pronoun would still solely depend on the gender of "Wassermelone" and thus the sentence would have to read
Das ist unsere Wassermelone. Unsere.
answered 4 hours ago
fragezeichen
1,602317
Some mistakes are common so they are an essential part of colloquial German like omitting the final e in verbs with ich e.g., ich hab'/ich hab. Is this incorrect usage of Mein is common in German? Or else why would supposedly a native speaker do such a mistake? Only a typo?
– User
51 mins ago
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No, this usage of "mein" is not correct. It has to be "meine" since the grammatical gender of "(die) Wassermelone" is female in German. You might possibly think it could be "meine" because "(die) Katze", which is female in German, is expressing this sentence, but the gender of the speaker doesn't matter at all.
So the grammatically correct version of the meme is
Das ist meine Wassermelone. Meine.
From what I can tell from that answer, mein is for singular male, and
meine is for everything else.
"Mein" is also used for singular neuter, as in
Das ist mein Haus.
If it is accurate how so; since there's only one cat in the image?
Even if there were multiple cats in the image, the inflection of the possessive pronoun would still solely depend on the gender of "Wassermelone" and thus the sentence would have to read
Das ist unsere Wassermelone. Unsere.
answered 4 hours ago
fragezeichen
1,602317
No, this usage of "mein" is not correct. It has to be "meine" since the grammatical gender of "(die) Wassermelone" is female in German. You might possibly think it could be "meine" because "(die) Katze", which is female in German, is expressing this sentence, but the gender of the speaker doesn't matter at all.
So the grammatically correct version of the meme is
Das ist meine Wassermelone. Meine.
From what I can tell from that answer, mein is for singular male, and
meine is for everything else.
"Mein" is also used for singular neuter, as in
Das ist mein Haus.
If it is accurate how so; since there's only one cat in the image?
Even if there were multiple cats in the image, the inflection of the possessive pronoun would still solely depend on the gender of "Wassermelone" and thus the sentence would have to read
Das ist unsere Wassermelone. Unsere.
answered 4 hours ago
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answered 4 hours ago
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Some mistakes are common so they are an essential part of colloquial German like omitting the final e in verbs with ich e.g., ich hab'/ich hab. Is this incorrect usage of Mein is common in German? Or else why would supposedly a native speaker do such a mistake? Only a typo?
– User
51 mins ago
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Some mistakes are common so they are an essential part of colloquial German like omitting the final e in verbs with ich e.g., ich hab'/ich hab. Is this incorrect usage of Mein is common in German? Or else why would supposedly a native speaker do such a mistake? Only a typo?
– User
51 mins ago
Some mistakes are common so they are an essential part of colloquial German like omitting the final e in verbs with ich e.g., ich hab'/ich hab. Is this incorrect usage of Mein is common in German? Or else why would supposedly a native speaker do such a mistake? Only a typo?
– User
51 mins ago
Some mistakes are common so they are an essential part of colloquial German like omitting the final e in verbs with ich e.g., ich hab'/ich hab. Is this incorrect usage of Mein is common in German? Or else why would supposedly a native speaker do such a mistake? Only a typo?
– User
51 mins ago
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This could actually be interpreted as correct, if you think of the single "mein" as a shortened sentence, where it the longer version was something like.
Die Melone ist mein.
Here "mein" is not inflected, because it isn't in an attributive position, and thus shouldn't be inflected either.
THis is also what you'd expect a very small child to say, when in conflict whith another child over a toy: "MEIN"
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This could actually be interpreted as correct, if you think of the single "mein" as a shortened sentence, where it the longer version was something like.
Die Melone ist mein.
Here "mein" is not inflected, because it isn't in an attributive position, and thus shouldn't be inflected either.
THis is also what you'd expect a very small child to say, when in conflict whith another child over a toy: "MEIN"
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This could actually be interpreted as correct, if you think of the single "mein" as a shortened sentence, where it the longer version was something like.
Die Melone ist mein.
Here "mein" is not inflected, because it isn't in an attributive position, and thus shouldn't be inflected either.
THis is also what you'd expect a very small child to say, when in conflict whith another child over a toy: "MEIN"
answered 26 mins ago
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This could actually be interpreted as correct, if you think of the single "mein" as a shortened sentence, where it the longer version was something like.
Die Melone ist mein.
Here "mein" is not inflected, because it isn't in an attributive position, and thus shouldn't be inflected either.
THis is also what you'd expect a very small child to say, when in conflict whith another child over a toy: "MEIN"
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I want to add to the previous answer. Such constructions are not always necessarily wrong. Endingless forms of possessives are sometimes used in special circumstances.
From Duden, Die Grammatik I quote:
Das nachgestellte attributive Possessivpronomen ist in bestimmten Fällen (in der
Bibelsprache und in der Poesie, besonders im Anruf) endungslos:
Vater unser, der du bist im Himmel... (Gebet). Nimm auf meine Seel' in die Hände
dein... (Uhland). Schöne Schwester mein ... (Penzoldt).
From Hammer's German Grammar and Usage I quote:
Endingless forms of the possessive are occasionally found in set phrases, archaic expressions or poetic language:
Dein ist mein Herz!
Die Welt ist unser.
Die Rache ist mein.
answered 34 mins ago
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I want to add to the previous answer. Such constructions are not always necessarily wrong. Endingless forms of possessives are sometimes used in special circumstances.
From Duden, Die Grammatik I quote:
Das nachgestellte attributive Possessivpronomen ist in bestimmten Fällen (in der
Bibelsprache und in der Poesie, besonders im Anruf) endungslos:
Vater unser, der du bist im Himmel... (Gebet). Nimm auf meine Seel' in die Hände
dein... (Uhland). Schöne Schwester mein ... (Penzoldt).
From Hammer's German Grammar and Usage I quote:
Endingless forms of the possessive are occasionally found in set phrases, archaic expressions or poetic language:
Dein ist mein Herz!
Die Welt ist unser.
Die Rache ist mein.
answered 34 mins ago
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I want to add to the previous answer. Such constructions are not always necessarily wrong. Endingless forms of possessives are sometimes used in special circumstances.
From Duden, Die Grammatik I quote:
Das nachgestellte attributive Possessivpronomen ist in bestimmten Fällen (in der
Bibelsprache und in der Poesie, besonders im Anruf) endungslos:
Vater unser, der du bist im Himmel... (Gebet). Nimm auf meine Seel' in die Hände
dein... (Uhland). Schöne Schwester mein ... (Penzoldt).
From Hammer's German Grammar and Usage I quote:
Endingless forms of the possessive are occasionally found in set phrases, archaic expressions or poetic language:
Dein ist mein Herz!
Die Welt ist unser.
Die Rache ist mein.
answered 34 mins ago
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I want to add to the previous answer. Such constructions are not always necessarily wrong. Endingless forms of possessives are sometimes used in special circumstances.
From Duden, Die Grammatik I quote:
Das nachgestellte attributive Possessivpronomen ist in bestimmten Fällen (in der
Bibelsprache und in der Poesie, besonders im Anruf) endungslos:
Vater unser, der du bist im Himmel... (Gebet). Nimm auf meine Seel' in die Hände
dein... (Uhland). Schöne Schwester mein ... (Penzoldt).
From Hammer's German Grammar and Usage I quote:
Endingless forms of the possessive are occasionally found in set phrases, archaic expressions or poetic language:
Dein ist mein Herz!
Die Welt ist unser.
Die Rache ist mein.
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