Du aber Sie?

[Sysman]

Isn't 'Das' just nominative neuter? And not inflected so you'd hear it more?

Also accusative neuter.

[stek]

Also accusative neuter.

Isn't it same in all cases? 'Das' all the way!

[VectraMan]

Isn't it same in all cases? 'Das' all the way!

Das = dem in the dative:

N A D G
der den dem des
die die der der
das das dem des
die die der den

Simples.

[petergriffin]

Ok everybody and now please halten Sie die Fresse!

[VectraMan]

What amazes me is that a) something so unbelievably complicated evolved among primitive uneducated people, and b) in the couple of thousand years since nobody thought it would be nice to simplify it. In English we dropped all the cases (apart from with pronouns), drastically simplified our conjugations, got rid of the nonsense of assigning arbitrary genders to inanimate objects, AND adopted one form of you, and somehow we all manage to communicate fine.

[darmstadt]

Mann beißt Hund:

[stek]

That's awful.

She's a lovely woman from the Ukraine, no shelf is too high for dusting, couch pulled for the vacuum. Until recently I employed someone from England, attention to detail was absent and he would disappear with the money the moment my back was turned only working a couple of hours when three were paid. Lazy so in so.

Does she have the right to work in Germany?

[darmstadt]

There's 49 possible inflections for adjectives in German. 49!

The best one to use is 'Imbiß' or 'Bude' Deutsch. As even Germans have problems then just use the 'd' or 'n' as in: "gib mir noch n'Bier" or "Ich möchte d'Pommes mit d'Soße." Some here: Imbiss-Deutsch