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epitome of incomprehensibility
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Two recently:
-Ich ärgere mich an die Blumen.
First of all, the preposition should be "über." Second, why exactly am I annoyed about flowers??
-Ich bin Komponistin drei Stunden pro Woche.
Why, yes, I am a music composer three hours a week! I mean, sometimes. (Note the "in" ending is feminine.) I'm just not sure if the "drei Stunden pro Woche" should go before "Komponistin." A difference between English and German syntax is that German puts stuff between verbs and direct objects and English doesn't, unless that object is a clause:
I closed the door slowly = OK
I closed slowly the door = no
I said with utter sincerity that I loved closing doors = OK
vs.
Ich öffnete langsam die Tür. = OK
Buuuut does that pattern apply to state-of-being verbs?
(Ich weiß nicht and why are these the things I'm blabbering about??)
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