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    5 days ago

    “Guten tag, Frauline. Are you harboring any enemies of the state?”

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      *Guten Tag, Fräulein.

      Tag (day) is a noun and nouns always get capitalized in German.

      ä is an Umlaut and the dots are important, cause the word would be pronounced frouw-line and not froi-line otherwise.

      Also its lein not line, but it’s pronounced line.

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        4 days ago

        Everything I know about the German language I learned from watching Hogan’s Heroes.