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PostSubject: Basic German sayings/ False friends   Mon Jun 23, 2008 7:54 am

Yes... well...

Here you´ll learn some basic useful sentences:

It´ll be like this

English - German

Hello - Hallo/ Grüß Gott (in southern Germany)/ Moin-Moin (in northern Germany)
the last two are dialect

Goodbye - Auf Wiedersehen (formal)/ Tschüß (informal)
Good afternoon - Guten Tag (NOT Guten Nachmittag) You can also say "Guten Tag" when you meet with somebody you don´t know very well

Good evening - Guten Abend
Good night - Gute Nacht

I - Ich
You (singular) - Du (to a friend/ family member)/ Sie (to a stranger/ somebody you don´t know well/ somebody with a higher rank e.g. a teacher)
You (plural) - Ihr (to friends/ family members)/ Sie (to strangers etc.)
This kind of Sie is always written with a capital "S"

He/ she/ it - Er/ sie/ es
We - wir
They - sie

My - mein (m/n) / meine (f) (e.g. "My box of choclates" - "Meine Pralinenschachtel")
Your - dein (m/n) /deine (f) (e.g. "Your sister" - "Deine Schwester")/ OR Ihr (m/n) / Ihre (f) (e.g. at work: "Your desk" - "Ihr Schreibtisch")
His - sein (m)/ seine (f)
Hers - ihr (m/n) / ihre (f)
Its - sein (n)

A good example for neutral gender is "The girl" - "Das Mädchen".
A girl is obviously female but in German grammar is it considered being neutral.
So if it´s "The girl lost her bag" - "Das Mädchen verlor seine Tasche". Many Germans would probably say "Das Mädchen verlor ihre Tasche" but that´s actually wrong!)


Yes - Ja
No - Nein
Perhaps/ Maybe - Vielleicht/ Möglicherweise
Thank you - Danke sehr (formal)/ Danke

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PostSubject: Re: Basic German sayings/ False friends   Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:42 am

Introducing yourself:

Hello, my name is... - Hallo, mein Name ist.../ Hallo, ich heiße...
I live in... - Ich wohne in...
I come from... - Ich komme aus...
My hobbies are... - Meine Hobbies sind...

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PostSubject: Re: Basic German sayings/ False friends   Mon Oct 27, 2008 9:12 am

So...
Hallo, mein Name ist Rose! (is that correct?)

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PostSubject: Re: Basic German sayings/ False friends   Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:18 am

Ja, das ist korrekt^^ (Yes it´s correct^^)

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PostSubject: Re: Basic German sayings/ False friends   Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:21 am

YAY ME! tell me some more Razz

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PostSubject: Re: Basic German sayings/ False friends   Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:31 am

Hobbies: (it´s "Hobbies" in German as well^^)

riding (on horseback) - (ein Pferd) reiten
-> horseback would be "Pferderücken" but we don´t say "auf einem Pfrederücken reiten" lol
(to ride - reiten)

drawing - zeichnen; (to draw - zeichnen)
painting - malen; (to paint - malen)
singing - singen; (to sing - singen)
dancing - tanzen; (to dance - tanzen); (a dance - ein Tanz)
writing (short) stories - (Kurz-) Geschichten schreiben; (to write - schreiben) -> you´d write "short stories" like this: Kurzgeschichten

climbing - klettern; (to climb - klettern)
hiking - wandern; (to hike - wandern)
jogging - joggen; (to jog - joggen)

Your hobby is not there? Feel free to ask what it is in German^^
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PostSubject: Re: Basic German sayings/ False friends   Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:06 pm

okay let me try....

Meine Hobbies sind: zeichnen, singen, Geschichten schreiben
(where is reading? and giving advice?)

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PostSubject: Re: Basic German sayings/ False friends   Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:08 pm

ohhhh.... Embarassed

reading - lesen, to read - lesen
giving advice - Ratschläge geben, to give - geben; we´d use advice in plural so it´s not Ratschlag but Ratschläge^^

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PostSubject: Re: Basic German sayings/ False friends   Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:14 pm

thanks hunni! okay here I go: (tell me if i get anything wrong)

Meine Hobbies sind: zeichnen, singen, Geschichten schreiben, lesen, Ratschläge geben.

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PostSubject: Re: Basic German sayings/ False friends   Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:20 pm

Sehr gut! (Very good)

And for me:
Mein Name ist Katja
Meine Hobbies sind: zeichen, malen, lesen, singen, Geschichten schreiben und Musik hören.

listening to music - Musik hören, to listen - hören, zuhören
sorry I forgot about that one as well...

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PostSubject: Re: Basic German sayings/ False friends   Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:23 pm

so thats: drawing, painting, reading, singing, writing stories and listening to music?

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PostSubject: Re: Basic German sayings/ False friends   Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:33 pm

yupp^^ pretty much^^
and being online - online sein^^

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PostSubject: Re: Basic German sayings/ False friends   Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:36 pm

YAY ME Razz

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PostSubject: Re: Basic German sayings/ False friends   Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:14 pm

pirat

important verbs - Wichtige Verben:

to be - sein (above)
to walk - laufen

I walk - Ich laufe
You walk - Du läufst
He/ She walks - Er/ Sie läuft
We walk - Wir laufen
You (pl.) walk - Ihr lauft
They walk - Sie (pl.) laufen

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PostSubject: Re: Basic German sayings/ False friends   Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:22 pm

nice!

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