How is this a preposition?
“Laut” can be a preposition or an adjective in German, depending on how it’s used:
Laut Google hast du Recht = according to Google, you’re right (prepositional usage)
Die Kinder sind laut = The children are loud (adjectivial usage)
The problem is that the code for this website is pretty simplistic, and it just scans every sentence for something that looks like a preposition. Since the spelling and pronunciation are identical between the two different usages, clozemaster isn’t smart enough to parse out which is which. I’ve noticed this quite a lot throughout the preposition section here. In particular, clozemaster will often highlight a separable verb prefix as a preposition, because again, it has the same spelling and pronunciation:
Ich komme aus Deutschland = I come from Germany (prepositional usage)
Du siehst traurig aus = You look sad (separable verb prefix, from “aussehen”)
Unfortunately, writing code that can correctly parse out how each word is used in a sentence is MUCH harder than simple keyword-scanning. So, this section is unfortunately full of such little mistakes.
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