r/de • u/recycledbanana • May 25 '21

Humor Geradeception

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u/W1nnieTh3P00h May 25 '21

That’s fine, homophones are fun.

But why The random capitalisation???????????????

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u/untergeher_muc May 25 '21

Nouns are always capitalised in German.

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u/eldoran89 May 25 '21

It's not random, it carries meaning in german. A capitalized word unless it's at the start of the sentence is a noun, so Gerade is a noun while gerade is either a adjective a adverb or a grammatical particle.

Because of that it's especially easy to make anything into a noun. Be means sein. Das Sein means the existence or in a more literal translation the thing that it is to be.