Please help me translate one line into German

[Steve86]

Hello!

Can anyone please help me translate the following sentence into perfect german tense.

"I saw a man get knocked off his bike by a car"

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks

[linguaholic]

Hi Steve86

Ich habe einen Mann gesehen, der aufgrund einer Kollision mit einem Auto von seinem Fahrrad gestürzt ist. 

Something like that. Contains some additional info, though. (collision).

Regards

Lingua

[czarina84]

It's amazing to me how many German words are similar to English words (Kollision).  Or maybe I should say how many English words are similar to German words.  I think it's neat how Kollision, Mann, Fahrrad and Auto are capitalized.  Why is that?  Are they proper nouns in German?  I haven't gotten to German yet.

[宇崎ちゃん]

Yes, Germans indeed capitalise their nouns.
I don't know why though.

[linguaholic]

  On 12/4/2015 at 11:28 AM, czarina84 said:

It's amazing to me how many German words are similar to English words (Kollision).  Or maybe I should say how many English words are similar to German words.  I think it's neat how Kollision, Mann, Fahrrad and Auto are capitalized.  Why is that?  Are they proper nouns in German?  I haven't gotten to German yet.

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They are not proper nouns. But in German you capitalize regular nouns and proper nouns in the same way. Why is that? I never really thought about that. I guess it is just some sort of convention. It probably makes readier a little bit easier, as it is very easy to spot nouns in a sentence. After all, nouns usually play a very important part in a sentence. In terms of importance, they usually rank second to verbs. 

[czarina84]

  On 12/5/2015 at 12:56 PM, linguaholic said:

They are not proper nouns. But in German you capitalize regular nouns and proper nouns in the same way. Why is that? I never really thought about that. I guess it is just some sort of convention. It probably makes readier a little bit easier, as it is very easy to spot nouns in a sentence. After all, nouns usually play a very important part in a sentence. In terms of importance, they usually rank second to verbs. 

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That is very interesting.  Thank you for this bit of knowledge.