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 brechen means to break. It gets conjugated as follows (watch out, it’s an irregular verb, so the 2nd and 3rd form singular is different): The perfect tense goes with ‘haben’ … 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
We’ve all been there, haven’t we? We’ve gone to bed and then couldn’t sleep. What to do? Well, next time you can’t sleep, you could watch this German Sesame Street video and see what Ernie did to try and get to sleep … Or you can read this blog post to find out more about … Read more
Look! Did you see that? As an English speaker you wouldn’t think twice about when to use ‘to look’ or ‘to see’. You just know. But when it comes to learning German, do you use schauen or sehen? Or even kucken or gucken or kieken? First of all, sehen is used when you talk about … Read more
A newsletter I received this morning had the email heading “Want to try something new?” It reminded me of questions from students about which German verb to use when you want to try something. So this post is about the diffferent German verbs you can use for the English ‘to try’ I started by putting … Read more
Last month I wrote a post about the different ways to say ‘stop’ and one of them was ‘aufhören’. This got me thinking about the verb ‘hören’ and how prefixes can or might change the meaning of the verb. Here is the verb HÖREN plus 20 more with prefixes: hören – to listen abhören – … Read more
Do you know that feeling? You need to write something in German but you need to look up a word … and then don’t know which one to use! ‘To mean’ is one of those words. It can mean (☺) meinen, bedeuten and beabsichtigen/ vorhaben. Let me show you: Meinen Ich meine, du meinst, er/ … Read more
You most likely know that the German word ‘mit’ means with (and is followed by the dative). But did you also know, that if you add the three letters ‘mit’ to certain verbs, you’ll end up with a nice list of new verbs. The same happens if you add ‘Mit’ to certain nouns. The nouns … 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
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