Subtleties of the German language

Here comes a great sample of how important details (such as capitalization or intonation) really are in a language as complex as German. Are you able to figure all of them out? That is what I do almost every day. Getting a single letter wrong can make “the captured flea” turn into “the prisoner escaped”. 🙂

Source: Goethe Institut
Source: Goethe Institut
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