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
A while ago I wrote a blog post about using crib sheets When is cheating not cheating? – not the ones you would use in an exam, but sheets with useful information for German learners. I thought about it recently when some students of mine were doing some exercises about prepositions and also about adjective … Read more
If you check your dictionary for the German noun Schrecken, you’ll see that ‘der Schrecken’ means dread, horror, scare, fright etc… And if you have scared somebody in German (I mean, if you want to talk about it in German, the action would be the same as anywhere else ☺) you can use the phrase … Read more
The two German verbs HABEN and SEIN are – just like ‘to have’ and ‘to be’ in English – irregular verbs. But they are also very important in all the other tenses, not just the present tense. A while ago I reminded you how to comjugate them in the present, perfect, imperfect, pluperfect tenses as … Read more
Last week I told you when to write das or dass, and when you might still see daß: Das, dass or daß? That’s the question! Today’s post is a follow-up about when German words need the ‘ss’ or ‘ß’. Although ‘daß’ is now spelled ‘dass’, doesn’t mean that the ‘ß’ is obsolete. But the rules … Read more
You’ve been learning German for a while now and then you see sentences with parts that look like this: Shall we make some sense of this? Okay, let look at the easiest one: daß The reason why I call it easy is that it’s obsolete. Since the German spelling reform in 1996, the word ‘daß’ … Read more
The two German verbs HABEN and SEIN are – just like ‘to have’ and ‘to be’ in English – irregular verbs. But they are also very important in all the other tenses, not just the present tense. So, as a reminder, here they are conjugated in the present, perfect, imperfect, pluperfect tenses as well as … Read more
Modal verbs! How much do you know about them? You probably remember a few things things: Then there is also mögen & möchten, which are used like modal verbs but also often used without a second verb. But mögen (to like), which gets conjugated like a modal verb, and möchten (conditional of mögen, would like) hardly ever … Read more
Denglisch! You all know about the Germans’ love to Germanise English word! Over the last few months I have collected sentences with Denglisch words in German health podcasts and magazines, but instead of just posting them here for you, I have turned them into a grammar exercise. (I hope, you’re shouting YAY!) So, get pen … Read more
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