The German verb stellen means to lay/ put/ place, just like the verb legen which I covered in this post. It gets conjugated as follows: The perfect tense goes with ‘haben’ and the past participle is ‘gestellt’, and in the imperfect tense it’s ‘ich stellte’. This page contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I’ll … Read more
If you are a frequent reader of my blog posts you might remember my German pronunciation posts How to pronounce the vowels in German, How to pronounce German words with ‘ei’ and ‘ie’ or Test your German pronunciation with some dinosaurs Today I came across a video I made a while ago, which was fun … Read more
If German words had a popularity contest, Liebling would be wearing a glittery crown and handing out hugs. It’s cute, it’s cosy, and it means “darling” or “favourite”. Mein Liebling! – My darling! My favourite! But Liebling doesn’t like to stay single for long. It loves making compound words! Whether you’re talking about your Lieblingslied … Read more
Welcome to another month of the German Action for Happiness Calendars. As before, you can if you wish also print out a PDF version. And if you want or need to, you can see it here in English, where you also find further foreign languages. Use the following sentences as a German reading and translation exercise and then … Read more
Welcome to my next blog post based on our ‘Ask Angelika’ shows with practical or useful sentences you might hear or use yourself in certain scenarios. Today we will cover sentences you might hear or need to say at a train station. This page contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I’ll get a few … Read more
This is a very brief introduction to the German nominative case with definite articles. The video is a sample lesson from my online course German grammar – the four cases where you can find out much more. Every sentence, whether in English or in German, has at least a subject and a verb. For example … Read more
Are you in the holiday (or vacation) mood? The German word for holiday is ‘Urlaub’, and just like there are lots of different ways to spend your holidays, there are just as many German words for it. And – you’ve guessed it – you can write the type of holiday plus the word ‘Urlaub’ as … Read more
Welcome to another month of the German Action for Happiness Calendars. As before, you can if you wish also print out a PDF version. And if you want or need to, you can see it here in English, where you also find further foreign languages. Use the following sentences as a German reading and translation exercise and then … Read more
Welcome to my next blog post based on our ‘Ask Angelika’ shows with practical or useful sentences you might hear or use yourself in certain scenarios. Today we will cover sentences you might hear or need to say at an airport. This page contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I’ll get a few pence … Read more
You have learned the German alphabet and are pretty good a spelling words, but how do you pronounce the letters when they are part of words (and not part of the alphabet)? My video (which is part from my online course The German ABC – a complete guide to German pronunciation explains in great details … Read more
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