Welcome to my next blog post based on our season 6 ‘Ask Angelika’ shows with practical or useful sentences you might hear or use yourself in certain scenarios.
Today we’re covering sentences you might hear or need when playing chess with Germans. If you need a reminder what the chess pieces are called in German, check out my blog post German for chess players
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Möchtest du eine Partie Schach spielen?
Would you like to play a game of chess?
Spielst du mit den weißen oder schwarzen Figuren?
Are you playing with the white or black pieces?
Wir müssen die Figuren richtig aufstellen.
We need to set up the pieces correctly.
Das ist eine interessante Eröffnung.
That’s an interesting opening.
Das war ein guter Zug!
That was a good move!
Darf ich den Zug zurücknehmen?
May I take back the move?
Möchtest du das Spiel aufgeben?
Would you like to resign the game?
Ich denke, das ist ein Schachmatt.
I think that’s checkmate.
Here’s the video where Steven gets to practise saying and translating the sentences:
What can you do with these sentences to remember them?
You can bookmark this post or make a vocabulary list with them. You can do that with any paper or electronic notebook. Or you could buy my notebook which I designed specially for German vocab learners. It has space for vocabulary lists and sentences. You can even choose one of two colours 😉
