Last month I wrote a blog post about indem & in dem and how to work out when you write indem and when in dem. Today’s blog post tells you about sowie and so wie. sowie (plus, as well as) Here are some examples: In the following three sentences you could also have used und … Read more
This page contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I’ll get a few pence if you buy anything – at no extra cost to you. When my students come across German gender for the first time, and they’re learning whether a noun is masculine, feminine or neuter, they often despair. Then after a while they … Read more
So you’re reading this German text and come across a sentence like this one ‘Sie verbessert ihr Deutsch, indem sie jeden Tag Vokabeln lernt‘. And then you read ‘In dem Textbuch findet sie viele Vokabeln‘. And you think “Is there a spelling mistake or why is there an ‘indem’ and an ‘in dem’?” Well, it’s … Read more
I have written about compound nouns before in posts like Lost German compound nouns found after long search, Handschuhe – Gloves or Are you a ‘Muffel’? but I wrote them to show you the variety of compound nouns. In this blog post I’m going to answer the question: How do you determine the gender of … Read more
Whenever students want to talk about the future, they often get wollen and werden mixed up. It’s understandable, because ‘ich will’ sounds like ‘I will’. But it’s a false friend, because ‘ich will’ means ‘I want’. When asked, for example, “Was wirst du morgen machen?” (What will you do tomorrow?) students told me “Ich will … Read more
This page contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I’ll get a few pence if you buy anything – at no extra cost to you. The verb greifen means to grab. It gets conjugated as follows: The perfect tense goes with ‘haben’ and the past participle is ‘gegriffen’, and in the imperfect tense it’s ‘ich … Read more
Six years ago I wrote a blog post and made a video about the three different German verbs that you might need when you want to say ‘to put’: Setzen, stellen oder legen – oh, I’ll just put it there! As that post was just about the translation for ‘to put’ it was okay, but … Read more
Welcome to Angelika’s online courses for German learners 😃 You are in the right place if you want to improve your German but don’t have the time or money for regular weekly lessons. Once you’ve bought a course it’s yours for as long as you wish (and that includes any updates). You watch the videos … Read more
The difference between viel and viele is the same as between much and many. You use viel for single nouns and uncountable things. You use viele for plural nouns and countable things. Examples: Viel Verkehr – much traffic Viele Autos – many cars Viel Gemüse – a lot of vegetables ( This example isn’t quite … Read more
Do you know what interjections are? Interjections are words like oh, yes, no, well, ugh, oh well ….. An interjection is a part of speech that shows the emotion or feeling of the author. These words or phrases can stand alone or be placed before or after a sentence. Many times an interjection is followed … Read more
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