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!
This is also a place for smaller misc. translations and questions you may have about the country and people in general.
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.
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Learning German language
होता है जो होना है ... वक़्त ही शायद खुदा है ...
कौन कहता है आदमी अपनी किस्मत खुद लिखता है? -
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 - Whyहोता है जो होना है ... वक़्त ही शायद खुदा है ...
कौन कहता है आदमी अपनी किस्मत खुद लिखता है? -
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 runहोता है जो होना है ... वक़्त ही शायद खुदा है ...
कौन कहता है आदमी अपनी किस्मत खुद लिखता है? -
I want translated black poison !!!!!
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Black Poison would be "schwarzes Gift"
होता है जो होना है ... वक़्त ही शायद खुदा है ...
कौन कहता है आदमी अपनी किस्मत खुद लिखता है? -
schwarzes Gift
thanx bro -
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)होता है जो होना है ... वक़्त ही शायद खुदा है ...
कौन कहता है आदमी अपनी किस्मत खुद लिखता है? -
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^^ -
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 -
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! -
Maybe some basic syntax?
In German, the usual sentence order is: Subject - Verb - Object.
Example: Ich lese ein Buch. (I read a book.)
Very similar to English, isn't it?
You can put as many objects as you want into a sentence.
Example: Ich lese morgens im Bett ein Buch. (I read a book in bed in the morning.)
The order of the objects is not strict. You could also say:
Ich lese im Bett morgens ein Buch.
Ich lese morgens ein Buch im Bett.
Ich lese ein Buch morgens im Bett.
Just keep in mind that the focus is on the last object you cite. So it depends on wheter you want to point out that you read a book, that you read in bed or that you read in the morning.
What about questions?
There are two types of them.
1.) Yes/No Questions
They follow the order: Verb - Subject - Object
Example: Liest du ein Buch? (Do you read a book?)
2.) Questions with a question wordare basically the same, just with a question word in the first place.
Example: Wann liest du ein Buch? (When do you read a book?)
Now the tricky part: subordinate clauses. Ever heard the rumour that the verb is in the very last position in German? Well, this is where that rumour comes from.
Indeed, a subordinate clause would look like that: Ich lache, wenn ich ein lustiges Buch lese. (I laugh when I read a funny book)
The main clause (Ich lache) is fine: the order is subject - object. The subordinate clause stars behind the comma with a conjunction (wenn) followed by the order Subject - Object - Verb.
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HI,
I've stumbled upon this expression in German and I can't figure it out...if anyone could help me I would greatly appreciate it
So, die Ausdruck ist: "wo gibts denn sowas"
What does it mean, when is it used, when it should not be used ...?
Danke sehr !
Vlad -
Hi Vlad
"wo gibt's denn sowas" would be something like "where can you find that?!?" in Englishit's an expression of surprise I'd say. I would even use it to say "What's that?!?" in terms of surprise/astonishment where you already know what the thing in front of you is.
होता है जो होना है ... वक़्त ही शायद खुदा है ...
कौन कहता है आदमी अपनी किस्मत खुद लिखता है? -
thank you steena to open this new sub
its great idea to help all of us learning languages beside
the other threads here which do the same
but i feel that its so hard to learn germany language i donno why
although i was good in it in my childhood
but i forget many words
... but still know some
i know how to count and i know to sing a song too hehehe
but i donno how to write it or what deos it exactly means
anyway .. i wish i can learn alittle germany here
and remind what i forget
also there is other thing
where can i hear the spelling of the words & letters
coz u know its hard to begin if i donno how every letter spelled
thanks alot again
keep doing this good job my friends -
Maviii for the pronounciation I just found this (for me rather funny
) site:
http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~joyce1/abinitio/pronounce/
I don't know if it will be helpful for you but it's worth a try
and if you ask questions we'll do our best to help you anyways!होता है जो होना है ... वक़्त ही शायद खुदा है ...
कौन कहता है आदमी अपनी किस्मत खुद लिखता है? -
am sure you`ll all help me
i have no doubt in this
thank u my friend
i`ll try this site now & i hope it`ll help me -
oh great job Steena in teaching German even it's not your first language ( right ?)
may I suggest to teach them how to read in German too ?
cause when it comes to reading in German ..some letters will definitely shock you...
I took German courses for 4 months, and I would like to help and maybe submit something about how to pronounce every single letter -
@louchi: go ahead and post whatever you like
I guess people will find it helpful! I'll think of something ...
... and it is my first languageहोता है जो होना है ... वक़्त ही शायद खुदा है ...
कौन कहता है आदमी अपनी किस्मत खुद लिखता है? -
oh sorry mate ..didn't know that ..Sorry for the Wrong Assumption
if it's your first language i'm sure you're more qualified to teach them the pronounciation ...i'm just a newbie .
why don't u start telling them the combination of letters for example :
if a german word starts with "SP" the "S" is pronounced like "sh" in english
eg: " sprechen sie deutsch ? " is actually pronounced " sh-prechen .... "
and if a german word starts with "ST" the "S" is pronounced like "sh" in english
eg: " auf der Straße " is actually pronounced " sh-trasse"
and that the W in german is pronounced V in english eg: "woher kommen sie ? " is pronounced " vo-her kommen zi " in english
and how to pronounce "ch" inside german words eg: "buch" is actually pronounced "bukh" ( kh is a lettre that doesn't exist in english .. it sounds like you are trying to spit or snoring ) sorry for the disgusting example
thank youLast edited by louchi; 09-22-2008 at 06:14 PM.
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Steena, well done on opening this thread! Especially because German language is quite challenging regarding the grammar...
This will help a lot of people including myself!Mivel mindig az okos enged, már rég a hülyék uralkodnak...