Re: GG Wagner's "Siegfrid Idyll "

[Elmer Elevator <bobmer.javanet@rcn.com>]

Wheeee! Free Deutsches lessons from Jost! Danke!

 

Uhhh ... is "some EUR 0,02" = "just my two cents"? 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jost Ammon <Jost.Ammon@GMX.DE>
To: F_MINOR@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU <F_MINOR@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Monday, April 08, 2002 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: GG Wagner's "Siegfrid Idyll "

There is no noun like "der Untergeher" in German.

 

There is

 

1. the verb "untergehen"

(= "sink" as in "das Schiff sinkt" or "perish" as in "das Römische Reich ist untergegangen")

 

2. the noun "Untergang"

(= "shipwreck as in "der Untergang der Titanic" or "decline" as in "der Untergang des Römischen Reichs")

 

So the "Untergeher" is "the one who perishes" or in a mimetic translation (of which I don't know if it works) "the perisher" or "the failurer".

 

"The Loser" is not half as devastating as "The Untergeher".

 

Some EUR 0,02

 

Jost