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 Posted: Thu Aug 7th, 2008 07:49 pm
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Can anyone tell me who to say "free" in German?  Phonetical spelling would be good.

Thanks in advance,

Mr. Bill

P.S.

I'm not giving away or getting a free German watch.  This is for my dog training regimen.

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Frei    is the spelling

In german the ei is pronounced I
In german the ie is pronounced E

If My High School memory serves me well


Are you giving away a Free Dog?   Sind Sie einen freien Hund weg gebend

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This may help you write in german or any other

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt

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If you own an iPhone or an iTouch, you can download a FREE English to German speaking translator for most common phrases. It is pretty cool. cat28.gif

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Thanks guys.

Hucky, I'm not giving the Dutchster away yet, but if she eats one more baseball cap, I just may.

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Funny that you should mention if any of us speak German.
The only German that I know is the Das Lied der Deutschen:

Einigkiet und recht und freiheit
Fur das Deutsche Vaterland
Danach lasst uns alle streben
Bruderlich mit herz und hand
Einigikiet und recht und freiheit
Sindes gluckes unterpfand!
Bluhm im glanze,dieses gluckes
Bluhe Deutsche Vaterland.

Melody by Joseph Haydn 1732 -1809
Lyrics by Hoffmann von Fallersleben


 The previous lyrics used by The Third Reich was banned by
  the Allied Forces.

Though the current flag of Black,Red and Gold had been taken into Article 22 of the
West German Constitution of 1949. Under this Article of the West German Constitution,a national anthem was not specified.

Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had asked President
Theodor Heuss in a letter to accept as the German National Anthem,on April 29,1952.

However, on March 7,1990 months before the Reunification of Germany,the Constitutional Court declared that the third stanza of Hoffmann von Fallersleben's poem be protected as a national anthem under the criminal law.
Section 90a of the Criminal Code makes defamation of the national anthem a crime, but does not specify what the national anthem is.

On November 1991, both President Richard von Weizsacher and Chancellor Helmut
Kohl agreed in an exchange of letters to declare the third stanza alone the national anthem of the enlarged republic. On official occasions, only Haydn's music is used, and the third stanza is supposed to be sung. For other uses, all stanzas may be performed. The singing of the first stanza may, however, considered by some as an expression of right-wing or nationalist political views, depending on the context.



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Willieboy wrote: Can anyone tell me who to say "free" in German?  Phonetical spelling would be good.

Thanks in advance,

Mr. Bill

P.S.

I'm not giving away or getting a free German watch.  This is for my dog training regimen.


fre = frei, sounds like = fry (like frying pan subtlelaugh.gif)

Schoenen Gruss

Jan

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Golly Simon, you must be a student of German history.

I thank you all for ou translation help.  I was out walking my Rottweiler this evening and I require that she behave on our walks.   She was heeling (Foose (sp?) means "Walk with me" as I understand it.)  She responds to foose, but doesn't know what heel means.  Anyway, after putting her through her paces for 30 minutes or so, I wanted to release her from her disciplined walk and let her relax for a while so I said "Frei" and she looked up at me as if to say, "Did you mean to say 'free?' "  She wasn't sure if she was free or not.  Pretty funny.

Thanks again.

Mr. Bill

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I believe that your phonetic foose is actually German for foot as in fusball thus it the same meaning as heel when applied as a command to a dog.

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Hundekommandos
Dog Commands in German
With pronunication guide DEUTSCH ENGLISH Hier! / Komm!
here / komm Come! Braver Hund!
braffer hoont Good dog! Nein! / Pfui!
nyne / pfoo-ee No! / Bad dog! Fuß!
foos Heel! Sitz!
sits Sit! Platz!
plahts Down! Bleib! / Stopp!
blype / shtopp Stay! Bring! / Hol!
brink / hohll Fetch! Aus! / Gib!
owss / gipp Let loose! / Give! Gib Fuß!
gipp foos Shake hands! Voraus!
for-owss Go!

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No, Bill  I was not a former student of German History,actually quite the contrary.
I am more of a History Enthusiast.




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Walruses understand only commands in Russian.

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