Not really, German here:
"Ich bin zuhaus(e)" -> "I'm home"
"Ich bin in der Bäckerei", "Ich bin bei der Post", "Ich bin bei den Großeltern" -> "I'm at the bakery", I'm at the post office", "~~I'm at my grandparents place~~ I'm at my grandparents" (or "I'm with my grandparents")
Showerthoughts
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.
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Small correction:
"Ich bin bei den Großeltern" → "I'm at my grandparents (or grandparents’)"
"I'm at my grandparents’ place" only exist as "I'm at my grandparents‘ house" → "Ich bin im Haus meiner Großeltern"
Thank you.
Edited the comment :)
Home is a state of being in addition to a location.
Honey, I am at home!
Well, tell them that home is more than just a location.
Also "going to 'ospitol"
If home is where your heart is, and I have my honey's heart, then saying "Honey, I'm home!" makes perfect sense.
One of my favourites to think about is "How are you?". Taken literally that question makes no sense. "How are you?" "Well one day my parents had sex and I sort of grew from there...."
Only a little.
Every language has some set of rules to how your supposed to construct sentences. Every language has a ton of exceptions to those rules.
The main thing that makes English difficult is that it's a kind of hybrid language. It's in the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages but it borrows a ton of words from the Romance branch. The grammar is also a weird hybrid (for example we preserve grammatical gender in pronouns, like in German, but we've mostly dropped grammatical gender in nouns and articles, like in Chinese.
This is one of the simpler types of exceptions.
Consider the Chinese phrase: 好久不见
Litterally: "good time not see"
But then someone explains that while 好 normally means "good" it can also mean "quite" or "alot".
So it's fairly easy to remember that it's generally translated as, "long time no see".
Those steps are pretty simple for a Chinese learner to understand. It's also not the hard part of learning a language.
I'm the law!
This is a fun little bit of fluff on this subject- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/35-confusing-things-about-the-english-language_n_5b39b246e4b08c3a8f6b9a3b
Great read, thanks a lot 👍
#1 : "I feel like fish" 🤣
#14 : ″‘Tough,’ ‘through,’ ‘thorough,’ ‘thought,’ ‘though,’ ‘trough’ 🤔
#29 : “The way you have to order adjectives (...) : opinion-size-shape-color-origin-material-purpose noun.” - - Today I learned ! ... but this one is too difficult, so, I won't even ever try to apply it.