What does this mean?

[feuervogel]

I downloaded, filled out, saved, and emailed the registration form to the Goethe people on Saturday. Today I got an email I don't understand, because I *did* fill the form out.

What does this mean? I sent the file to Ben for him to open it in a different program at work, to see if Preview and Adobe aren't playing nice.

vielen Dank für Ihre E-Mail, die zuständigkeitshalber an mich weitergeleitet wurde.

Bitte füllen Sie das Antragsformular komplett aus und senden Sie dies an uns zurück.

Should I respond with "Ich dachte, ich hatte das Formular komplett ausgefüllt. Welches Teil habe ich verpasst?" ?

Comments

[acari]

Sounds like either something got lost or it's a standard reply that misses the point. I would reply with your question. (Psst. It's 'Welchen Teil'.)

[feuervogel]

Augh, der Teil. There are a handful of words I'm convinced are some other gender (Teil, Institut).

It was something screwy in the translation from Preview to Adobe Reader, so I followed Ben's suggestion of print it to PDF and resave. Which worked, and now my Anmeldung is complete!

I wonder how long it'll take to get the books...

[ratcreature]

Actually you can say both "der Teil" and "das Teil" the words just mean slightly different things (at least in the variety of German I speak). It is "der Teil" if you mean a fraction of a whole thing, like a percentage part (as in "der Anteil"), but "das Teil" if the part is an complete sub-entity on its own, like a car part (as in "das Ersatzteil").

[feuervogel]

Oh, of course. It's one of those gender-depends-on-context words, like See. Or Mensch. Those are my favorite...