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MFGW: checken

GW Editorial Staff — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:33:51 +0000

My Favorite German Word of the Day is: checken!

Noun:
Because most things, granted not all things are better in Austria we also have “Obercheckers” – der Oberchecker or plural die Oberchecker

Principle part: checken / checkte / gecheckt
Auxiliary Verb: haben
Flexion: regular verbs

Here is how the verb is conjugated:

Präsens
Indikativ
ich checke
du checkst
er/sie/es checkt
wir checken
ihr checkt
sie checken

Konjunktiv I

ich checke
du checkest
er/sie/es checke
wir checken
ihr checket
sie checken

Präteritum

ich checkte
du checktest
er/sie/es checkte
wir checkten
ihr checktet
sie checkten

Indikativ Konjunktiv II

ich checkte
du checktest
er/sie/es checkte
wir checkten
ihr checktet
sie checkten

Imperativ
Singular check or checke
Plural checkt

Infinitiv Präsens
checken

Partizip Präsens
checkend

Partizip Perfekt

gecheckt

PERFEKT
Indikativ
ich habe gecheckt
du hast gecheckt
er/sie/es hat gecheckt
wir haben gecheckt
ihr habt gecheckt
sie haben gecheckt

Konjunktiv I

ich habe gecheckt
du habest gecheckt
er/sie/es habe gecheckt
wir haben gecheckt
ihr habet gecheckt
sie haben gecheckt

Infinitiv Perfekt
gecheckt haben

Plusquamperfekt
Indikativ Konjunktiv II
ich hatte gecheckt ich hätte gecheckt
du hattest du hättest
er/sie/es hatte er/sie/es hätte
wir hatten wir hätten
ihr hattet ihr hättet
sie hatten sie hätten

Futur I
Indikativ Konjunktiv I Konjunktiv II
ich werde checken ich werde checken ich würde checken
du wirst du werdest du würdest
er/sie/es wird er/sie/es werde er/sie/es würde
wir werden wir werden wir würden
ihr werdet ihr werdet ihr würdet
sie werden sie werden sie würden

Infinitiv Futur I
checken werden

Futur II
Indikativ Konjunktiv I Konjunktiv II
Person Hilfsverb Infinitiv Person Hilfsverb Infinitiv Person Hilfsverb Infinitiv
ich werde gecheckt haben ich werde gecheckt haben ich würde gecheckt haben
du wirst du werdest du würdest
er/sie/es wird er/sie/es werde er/sie/es würde
wir werden wir werden wir würden
ihr werdet ihr werdet ihr würdet
sie werden sie werden sie würden

Infinitiv Futur II
gecheckt haben werden

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Theodor Escherich discovered e.coli

GW Editorial Staff — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:11:16 +0000

In 1885 German-Austrian pediatrician and university professor Theodor Escherich discovered the bacterium Escherichia coli, in short e.coli.
He was awarded the doctorate in medicine in 1881 and only four years later made his major discovery. He became professor of Pediatrics at the Karl-Franz University of Graz in 1890 and in 1902 in Vienna. IN the K. u. K. capital he also directed the St. Anna Kinderspital (St. Anna Children’s Hospital), founded the “Säuglingsschutz” (Infant Defence Society) and started a campaign for breastfeeding.
Theodor Escherich was born November 29, 1857, Ansbach, Mittelfranken; died February 15, 1911, Vienna.

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Das Kriegsspiel

Sonia Laszlo — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:47:18 +0000

The word “Kriegsspiel” is obviously German, as is its inventor a military writer from Schleswig, Georg Vinturinus, who in 1798 invented War Games on actual terrain. It was based on the “Kings Game” invented in 1664 by Christopher Weikhmann of Ulm, Germany, and on a game Helwig, master of pages to the Duke of Brunswick, developed.

Not until 1811, when a Prussian father-son team, moved it to the next level, rulers took serious notice of war games as tactical training and not just a form of entertainment. Baron von Reisswitz, was a civilian war counselor to the Prussian court at Breslau, during the dark days of Napoleonic domination. In 1824 Reisswitz’ son, Leutnant George Heinrich Rudolf Johann von Reisswitz of the Prussian Guard Artillery, updated the rules and wrote them down in “Anleitung zur Darstellung militarischer maneuver mit dem Apparat des Kriegsspiels” (Instructions for the Representation of Tactical Maneuvers under the Guise of a Wargame).

In 1882 U.S. Army Major W.R. Livermore started the War Game tradititon in the US, when he published the book American Kriegspiel.

In 1940 400.000 soldiers fought a mock war in Louisiana to prepare for WWII.

In 2003 the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division conducts a live-fire Kriegsspiel on the border of Iraq and Kuwait to prepare for the invasion of Iraq.

Today it is hardly possible to think about army training without war games and hopefully being prepared for the worst keeps soldiers from never having to experience it. Like George Washington said: To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

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The man behind sadomasochism

GW Editorial Staff — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:49:33 +0000

The Austrian writer Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895) made his living in the 19th century by writing lots novels and novellas according to “sex sells” principle. He also wrote under the pen names Charlotte Arand and Zoë von Rodenbach.
Every now and then he included painful, servile and submissive encounters. Best known are his description in “Venus im Pelz” – Venus in fur which the German psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing quoted in his book “Psychopathia Sexualis” adn the word Sadomasochism was coined to describe painful sexual practices to appease carnal lust.

His whole life the author faught against rising antisemitism in Europe. He was well published and counted authors like Victor Hugo, Émile Zola and Henrik Ibsen among his admirers.

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