Paule89: Zwei Frage-- “Ich liebe es, einen genialen Song zum ersten Mal zu hören.” In dieser Satz meinen Sie “ingenious” oder “inspired” oder “brilliant”? Diese Wörter auf English meinen etwas ein bisschen anderen Dingen. Wie kann ich es wissen, welche ist richtig? Haben Sie einen Hinweis?
In this sentence do you mean ingenious or inspired or brilliant? (The definition in LingQ is “ingenious” or “brilliant” but I think you mean “inspiring” but have nothing to base this on.) These words in English mean something a little bit different. How can I know which is proper? Do you have a hint?
Zweite Frage— Wie üblich ist diese Art des Satzes auf Deutsch? “Ich liebe es, das Lächeln einer hübschen Frau zu sehen.” Ist dieser Art des Satzes ein Lieblingssatz in gesprochene Deutsch?
How common is this type of sentence in German? Is it a favorite type of sentence in spoken German?
“Genial” bedeutet im obigen Zusammenhang: “hervorragend”, also “brilliant”.
The second question’s sentence once might have been kind of modern,
but isn’t really regarded to be cool in today’s German…
“Genial” has the same root as “genius”, so I guess the most literal translation would be…well…“genius”.
Most of the time it simply means “very good” though.
“These words in English mean something a little bit different. How can I know which is proper?”
There are about 20 German translations of “to get”. How can I know which is proper? dict.cc | get | English Dictionary
I meant neither “brilliant” nor “ingenious”…I meant “genial”. A translation is nothing more than “a word in another language that has a similar meaning”.
“Is it a favorite type of sentence in spoken German?”
What exactly do you mean?
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In response to “What exactly do you mean?” in the second question. As a new learner, I can learn a sentence style like this and then once I do it is reasonable to expect us learners to over use a sentence style that is useful. Is this style "Ich “verb es, …zu verb” very common in spoken German? Do people really use this style a lot?
Does this help clarify my second question?
I think this pattern (ich/du/er/sie+verb+es) is mostly used when you´re expressing how you feel about something…uhm…
Ich liebe es, Musik zu hören.
Ich hasse es, Hunger zu haben. (I hate being hungry)
Ich mag es, Pizza zu essen.
Du magst es, Musik zu hören.
Sie hasst es, Hunger zu haben.
Sie lieben es, Pizza zu essen.
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Thanks, that is exactly what I wanted to know. Vielen Dank!