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Originally Posted by ArcheM
Well... I don't know if I actually know German well enough to write a game in it. I've just spent a few minutes trying to figure out a way to say "How did you end up here?" ...The two key problems are "end up" (perhaps unsurprisingly), and "here". The explanation for the last one is that in German there isn't just a simple "here" - "hier", but there are forms in common usage that have mostly gone extinct in English, like hither and hence... And no, I can't translate those into German off the top of my head. Partly because I'm not sure if it doesn't depend on the verb with which you use them... Oh, well.
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A little off topic from what you wrote, but you writing "bier" reminded me of seeing a song come across my newsfeed on Facebook last night, it's called "Sonne" and I could actually translate some of the lyrics in the chorus, they are,
"Eins, hier kommt die Sonne
Zwei, hier kommt die Sonne
Drei, sie ist der hellste Stern von allen
Vier, hier kommt die Sonne"
I could translate everything except "Drei, sie ist der hellste Stern von allen". I did click on the translation to see what it translated to and the lyrics roughly translate to (correct me if I'm wrong on anything)
"One, here comes the sun
Two, here comes the sun
Three, it is the brightest of all stars
Four, here comes the sun"
That's the translation I got, but I was happy with myself that I could understand most of the chorus before having to look up the translation.
As for the video game idea, the idea of a video game sooinds like a good one. But you are right about English having a few forms of the word "here", with the other two not really said anymore, they are at times, but it isn't that common to hear and other forms of the word "here".