Learning German

[Steena]

This thread is an attempt to help all the people out there who learn or want to learn German. I am not yet sure if it will work out. But we’ll never know if we don’t try .

I have gathered some basics of the language, of course everybody else is welcome to contribute explanations about various matters. I believe there's still a lot to explain in the basic field!

And every learner is welcome to ask questions about the language and its use!

If you want to try what you’ve already learned, you’re welcome to converse in this thread.
For song translations please stick to opening a seperate thread for your request.

[Steena]

I. The Basics/Grundlagen

ich - I
du - You
er, sie - he, she
wir – we
ihr – you (for friends)
Sie – you (formal)
sie - they

II. Basic vocabulary/Basisvokablen

Colors/Farben

blau - blue
rot - red
orange - orange
gelb - yellow
grün - green
grau - gray
weiß (or you can also write weiss) - white
pink - pink


Numbers/Zahlen

eins - one
zwei - two
drei - tree
vier - four
fünf - five
sechs - six
sieben - seven
acht - eight
neun - nine
zehn - ten
elf - eleven
zwölf - twelve

Countries/Länder

Spanien – España
Frankreich – France
Niederlande - Netherlands
Brasilien - Brazil
England - England
Finnland - Finland
Deutschland - Germany
Italien - Italy
Russland - Russia

Question Words/Fragewörter

Was - What
Wo/Wohin/Woher- Where/ To where/ Of where
Wer - Who
Welches/Welche/Welcher - which
Wie viel - How many
Wie - How
Um wie viel Uhr - At what time
Wann - When
Warum - Why

[Steena]

Conjugation of verbs/Kunjugation von Verben


One of the most important words is „sein“ – to be
It’s an irregular verb:

Present tense/Gegenwart

Ich bin - I am
Du bist - you are
Er/Sie/Es ist – he/she/it is
Wir sind - we are
Ihr seid - you are
Sie sind - they are

Past tense/Vergangenheit

Ich war – I was
Du warst – you were
Er/Sie/Es war – he/she/it was
Wir waren – we were
Ihr wart – you were
Sie waren – they were

Future/Zukunft

Ich werde sein – I will be
Du wirst sein – You will be
Er/Sie/Es wird sein – He/She/It will be
Wir werden sein – We will be
Ihr werdet sein – You will be
Sie werden sein – They will be



Next verb is a regular verb, „rennen“ – to run
This conjugation works for about 85% of the verbs

Present tense/Gegenwart

Ich renne – I run
Du rennst – You run
Er/Sie/Es rennt – he/she/it runs
Wir rennen – We run
Ihr rennt – You run
Sie rennen – They run

Past tense/Vergangenheit

Ich rannte – I ran
Du ranntest – You ran
Er/Sie/Es rannte – He/She/It ran
Wir rannten – We ran
Ihr ranntet – You ran
Sie rannten – They ran

Future/Zukunft

Ich werde rennen – I will run
Du wirst rennen – you will run
Er/Sie/Es wird rennen – he/she/it will run
Wir werden rennen – we will run
Ihr werdet rennen – you will run
Sie werden rennen – they will run

[black poison]

I want translated black poison !!!!!

[Steena]

Black Poison would be "schwarzes Gift"

[black poison]

schwarzes Gift

thanx bro

[Steena]

Some basic stuff just coming to my mind


Heute – Today
Gestern – Yesterday
Morgen – Tomorrow
Letzte Woche – Last week
Nächste Woche – Next week
Letzten Monat – Last month
Nächsten Monat – Next month

Wie viel Uhr ist es? – What time is it?
Es ist ... Uhr. – It’s .... o’clock.

Bitte – Please
Danke – Thanks
Entschuldigung – Sorry
Wie bitte? – What did you say?

Guten Morgen – Good morning
Guten Abend – Good evening
Auf Wiedersehen – Goodbye
Hallo – Hello

Ich habe eine Frage. – I have a question.
Kannst du mir helfen? – Can you help me? (informal)
Können Sie mir helfen? – Can you help me? (formal)

Wie geht es dir? – How are you? (informal)
Wie geht es Ihnen? – How are you? (formal)
Mir geht es gut. – I am fine.
Mir geht es nicht gut. – I don’t feel fine.

Was hast du heute gemacht? – What have you done today?

Ich liebe dich – I love you.
Ich mag dich – I like you.
Ich hasse dich – I hate you.

Was hast du gesagt? – What did you say? (informal)
Was haben Sie gesagt? – Was did you say? (formal)

[Lyssa]

ah think of somethinng

the days of the week / Wochentage

Monday = Montag
Tuesday = Dienstag
Wednesday = Mittwoch
Thursday = Donnerstag
Friday = Freitag
Sturday = Samstag
Sunday = Sonntag

Day = Tag
Sun = Sonne
Woche = week

Months of the year = Monate im Jahr

January = Januar
February = Februar
March = Mars
April = April
May = Mai
June = juni
July ) Juli
august = August
September = September
October = Oktober
November = November
December = Dezember

As you see, very close^^

[Cosmonaut]

I've been looking for orientation in my Turkish book. They do plural, negation and possessive pronouns in the first lesson (suffixes rather, but we don't have those here, so..)

So I'll try to explain some of them now.

Plural / Plural

There are many forms of plural and they, as far as I can tell, don't follow a particular pattern as to when which form is used. I think you'll just have to learn each noun with its corresponding plural form.

Let me just list them at first:

Das Auto - Die Autos / the car - the cars
Die Biene - Die Bienen / the bee - the bees
Das Fahrrad - Die Fahrräder / the bike - the bikes
Der Hund - Die Hunde / the dog - the dogs
Der Bruder - Die Brüder / the brothers - the brothers
Der Lehrer - Die Lehrer / the teacher - the teachers
Die Lehrerin - Die Lehrerinnen / the female teacher - the female teachers
Das Kleid - Die Kleider / the dress - the dresses
Das Museum - Die Museen / the museum - the museums
Das Prinzip - Die Prinzipien / the principle - the principles

That's all forms I can think of right now. The only pattern we can see is that plural always changes the article to 'die', which is a good thing to know, definitely.



Lets proceed to negative sentences.


Negation / Verneinung

We use two forms to make a sentence negative, i.e. with 'kein(e)' - 'not a' or 'none' and 'nicht' - 'not'.

Let me give some basic sentences:

Dein Auto ist grün - Your car is green.
Dein Auto ist nicht grün - You car is not green.

Deine Haare sind blond - Your hair is blonde.
Deine Haare sind nicht blond - Your hair is not blonde.

'nicht' is the most common form of negation. It can be used in 80 to 90% of all cases.

If, however, a noun with an indefinite article [i.e. ein / eine] needs to be negated, you have to use 'kein(e)'

example:
Ich kaufe eine Zeitung - I'm buying a newspaper or I buy a newspaper.
Ich kaufe eine Zeitung nicht - does _NOT_ work.
Ich kaufe keine Zeitung - I'm not buying a newspaper.


Hope you got the idea now.
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Lets finish with possessive pronouns.


Possessive pronouns - Possessivpronomen

They are:

mein(e) - my
dein(e) - your
sein(e)/ihr(e) - his/her
unser(e) - our
euer(eure) - your

for the articles der / das and singular forms it's mein / dein / sein / ihr / unser / euer
for the article die and plural forms it's meine / deine / seine / ihre / unsere / eure

example:

Das Auto - the car
Mein Auto - Dein Auto - Sein Auto - Ihr Auto - Unser Auto - Euer Auto
Der Hund - the dog
Mein Hund - Dein Hund - Sein Hund - Ihr Hund - Unser Hund - Euer Hund
Die Mutter - the mother
Meine Mutter - Deine Mutter - Seine Mutter - Ihre Mutter - Unsere Mutter - Eure Mutter

and plural: Seine Hunde - Ihre Hunde - Unsere Hunde - Eure Hunde
or Seine Autos - Ihre Autos - Unsere Autos - Eure Autos

[baskarukebaskanoge]

Great thread, i must say. Although I've already known all of this (except that die Biene means bee and Gift means poison, how funny ), I must thank you.
Can't wait for next lesson!