It's a completely flawed sentence. For one thing, "dien" comes from "dienen", which means "to serve". So literally these words mean: "what have you serve with your German". The sentence should clearly be "Was hast du mit dein Deutsch...." which could be translated: "What have you with your German?" The gap represents a missing past participle, which is probably "gemacht" -- "done". So this is presumably a garbled version of a sentence which would be translated as: "What have you done with your German?"
2006-10-28 03:39:42
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answer #1
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answered by Doethineb 7
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"was hast du mit dien deutsch" means
'What you have with serve in German'
2006-10-28 03:36:21
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answer #2
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answered by gracious_78 3
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Literally verbatum, it translates to "What have you with your German?"---which is not an uncommon way for German to be written out or spoken, even though the jist of it's meaning is "How's your German?"
Much of german phrasing looks strange when traslated literally word for word, but it's still "proper German".
Another example---"Wie Heissen Sie?" means "What's your name?"....even though the word-for-word translation would go "How Named You?"
2006-10-28 03:42:30
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answer #3
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answered by Anonymous
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what have you got with your german? (was hast du mit dein deutsch) (though that made no sense to me at all)
2006-10-28 03:30:59
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answered by ddyk 3
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The Altavista Babel Fish translation is literally "which you have with serve German".
2006-10-28 03:42:44
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answered by Me in Canada eh 5
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this is what is means.. " what you have with serve in German "
I don't think it makes much sense but That is the translation.
If you change dien to dein the translation is
" what you have with yours in German"
2006-10-28 03:32:28
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answer #6
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answered by KOOK 1
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What have you done with your German
2006-10-28 03:29:44
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answered by mikea_va 6
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It's dein, not dien
What have you (done) with your german?
2006-10-28 03:31:23
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answered by Anonymous
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how's your German
2006-10-28 03:28:51
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answered by blackratsnake 5
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