@kitten I mean, "Ich geb' dir das schnell" is what I would say, not "Ich gebe dir das". But it's not a general rule, I never say "ich lieb dich" to my girlfriend, always "ich liebe dich".
@kitten this is one of the things that make your language sound too formal, too unnatural. Imagine someone saying "is not" instead of "isn't" every single time. It's actually a pretty good way to spot people who have learned German with little direct exposure to German-speakers^^
@kitten@lis they just dont know what the word "conjugation" means probably lol
The above take you're responding to is completely correct by the way (German native & linguist here). I basically never use the "-e" ending there at any time.
"Hab gestern abend noch n bissl weiter Minecraft gespielt.", "Ich schlaf gleich ein" and "Ich wollt das gar nich :(" are all text messages I sent over the past 3 hours.
@kitten probably because it's so natural to everyone that no one ever consciously thinks about the fact that most of us just drop the -e for a significant portion of words. But "ich hab", "ich geb", "ich fahr", "ich lauf", "ich mach", "ich sag", "ich denk" - all of these are absolutely normal in every-day informal language use
@kitten there is even an orthographic convention that if you're going to use this in written language, you use an apostrophe to indicate the omitted e - ich hab' - but that's just a way of using informal language in formal settings.
@kitten another interesting thing happens when you combine it with "es" as an object by the way: "ich mache es" tends to be contracted to a simple "ich mach's" for example. Ich gebs dir später, ich sags dir jetzt, ich brings dir gleich
@kitten@lis pretty sure they're all not understanding what that sentence means? it seems obvious to me and as a linguistically inclined person i might be acclimated more to this
@kitten@lis so: yes, definitely, but also I remembered that in my dialect (Swabian) this has always been the standard form, so it's even less weird to me
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