Question | Answer |
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the book noun | das Buch |
the diarydaily journal noun | das Tagebuch |
I am unhappy. sentence | Ich bin unglücklich. |
horrible, horribly, terrible, terribly adjectiveadverb | schrecklich |
I am terribly unhappy. sentence | Ich bin schrecklich unglücklich. |
my pronoun | mein |
my life phrase | mein Leben |
My life is terribly boring. sentence | Mein Leben ist schrecklich langweilig. |
I get up in the morning. sentence | Morgens stehe ich auf. |
during the daya regular thing; usually during the day adjectiveadverb | tagsüber |
During the day I work. sentence | Tagsüber arbeite ich. |
in the evening adverb | abends |
In the evening I go to bed. sentence | Abends gehe ich schlafen. |
Every day the same. sentence | Jeden Tag das Gleiche. |
In the morning I eat bread with cheese. sentence | Morgens esse ich Brot mit Käse. |
at midday, at noon adverb | mittags |
At noon I eat in the canteen. sentence | Mittags esse ich in der Kantine. |
canteen food noun | das Kantinenessen |
always | immer |
The canteen food is always the same. sentence | Das Kantinenessen ist immer das Gleiche. Did you notice how Kantine and Essen melted into one noun meaning the food of the canteen? |
In the evening I eat cheese with bread. sentence | Abends esse ich Käse mit Brot. |
alone; lonely adjectiveadverb | allein |
I am alone. sentence | Ich bin allein. |
I am lonely. sentence | Ich bin allein. |
I am lonely, so terribly lonely. sentence | Ich bin allein, so schrecklich allein. |
no; not a pronoun | kein
Singular (masculine/neuter): kein There are declensions, but we will deal with that later. (If you must know...these are the forms for Nominative and Accusative. But you may, for the time being, use the austrich method and pretend you have never seen what is written inside these brackets...) |
no man phrase | kein Mann masculine sg |
no woman phrase | keine Frau feminine sg |
no child phrase | kein Kind neuter sg |
the children phrase | die Kinder Note how das changed to die when making das Kind plural. |
no children phrase | keine Kinder plural |
the family noun | die Familie |
I have no wife, no children, no family.... sentence | Ich habe keine Frau, keine Kinder, keine Familie... |
why adverb | warum |
Why am I always alone? adjectivesentence | Warum bin ich immer allein? |
Everyday I am alone. sentence | Jeden Tag bin ich allein. |
I am getting up alone. sentence | Ich stehe allein auf. |
I eat breakfast alone. sentence | Ich esse allein Frühstück. |
I go to work alone. sentence | Ich gehe allein zur Arbeit. zu + der = zur Did you recognize the Dativ? Hint: die Arbeit is feminine zu is a preposition followed by the Dative case. |
I work alone. sentence | Ich arbeite allein. |
I eat alone in the canteen. sentence | Ich esse allein in der Kantine. |
I go home alone. sentence | Ich gehe allein nachhause. |
I eat supper alone. sentence | Ich esse allein Abendbrot. |
I go to bed alone. sentence | Ich gehe allein schlafen. |
I am always alone. adjectivesentence | Ich bin immer allein. |
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