Need some help with German!

Fälle. It means "fall," right? If so,

What tense is it? What person? (1st person, 2nd person, etc)

And is it fälle or fäelle?

It's fälle. Ann umlaut is essentially the addition of an 'e' after the letter.

It's 1st person singular: I fall.

Thank you kindly. :D

But, does that mean it could be spelled faelle, without the umluat?

edited 30th Sep '10 8:21:52 PM by Latia

Technically, yes. Practically, that's only the case in crossword puzzles. However, people will get what you're talking about, it's just not common.

Fälle? Unless I'm misunderstanding this, 'ich fälle' doesn't translate to 'I fall'. That would be 'ich falle'.

fällen = to fell (cut down a tree).

Also used in the phrase 'ein Urteil fällen' = 'to make a judgement'.

It can also be the plural of the noun 'der Fall', which can simply mean 'fall', a (criminal or grammatical) case or an occurence.

What the boot said! Don't listen to Cthulhu's lies!

Oops. Hey, that's the dictionary's fault. And they're right. mistook the 'du' form for the 'ich'.

edited 1st Oct '10 11:58:52 AM by Morgulion

The whole verb thing is "Fallen, Gefallen, Gefallte." The last one I'm not entirely certain about. Use Leo.org for german language translation, it's the most accurate.

^ Nope, sorry.

Unfortunately, err, I can't really correct you. I'm a horrible case of native speakers understanding their language only intuitively. I know jack shit about cases and whatnot.

Gefallen is actually a completely different verb. It means to appeal to

Ah, but it's also a form of "fallen". "Ich bin gefallen" - "I fell" or "I have fallen".

^this is true and part of what makes german so confusing. I knew i was messing up somehow (and I'm even semi-fluent!) Gefallen is also used for "Es gefaellt mir" which means that it pleases you.