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(8,042 posts)Merci! Soyez le bienvenue. And embrace the weirdness.
appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)DBoon
(22,397 posts)This is a "Berliner", btw:
MurrayDelph
(5,301 posts)would think it looked like this:
Though real Oregonians prefer Blue Star.
DFW
(54,436 posts)If you insert the "ein," it tends to refer to something popular that the city is known for.
Ich bin Frankfurter: I am from Frankfurt
Ich bin ein Frankfurter: I am a cooked sausage
Ich bin Hamburger: I am from Hamburg
Ich bin ein Hamburger: I am a grilled patty of ground beef
Ich bin Berliner: I am from Berlin
Ich bin ein Berliner: I am a jelly-filled donut
And in case you are from France's capital city, trying out your German in Germany...............
Ich bin Pariser: I am from Paris
Ich bin ein Pariser: I am a condom.
As they say in the USA: grammar is the difference between knowing your shit and knowing you're shit.