"“Vas du das Krieg est uber" - "For You the War is over."" Topic

" German and Italian camps! Over 200,000 soldiers of the British armed forces were captured during the Second World War and placed in one of the different types of prisoner of war camps run by the Germans until 1945 and Italians until late 1943, sometimes even both…"
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Armand

That's some really bad German there.

Shouldn't it be: Fur dich ist der Krieg vorbei

That isn't very good either, try "Der Krieg ist für dich vorbei"

Thanks for sorting out the word order, it's been awhile since my last German class…

Aber warum nicht: "Der Krieg für dich ist vorbei"?

It is a matter of emphasis, nicht wahr?

It is my understanding that in German word order plays a more significant role in establishing emphasis (and so inference) than in German. English (at least American English) relies more heavily on spoken emphasis -- on accenting certain words. In text this is often done with bold, italics, or all caps.

For YOU the war is over. (ie: Not for everyone else, just for you.)
For you the war is OVER. (ie: It's over. Give it up.)

In English I can write a sentence of seven words, and give it seven different meanings when I speak it, without changing the word order, and no native English speaker would fail to understand the distinctions between the different meanings. It is my understanding that German does not commonly work that way.

Aber ich habe vor vielen Jahren Deutsch gelernt. Und ich habe fast alles vergessen.

-Mark
(aka: Mk 1)

Vielen Dank mein liebe Freunde!

Amicalement
Armand