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
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
In today’s post I’d like to tell you about the three prefixes ein-, aus-, and um-. When added to a verb they change the meaning of that verb. Sometimes the new meanings belong to the same ideas. For example: Whereas other verbs could mean completely different things: Of course, don’t forget that – in true … Read more
When you start German lessons, after a while you learn how to conjugate verbs. For English speakers that sounds strange, as in English there is no difference, except in the third form singular, where we add an ‘s’. So, the verb ‘play’ gets conjugated: I play, you play, he/ she/ it plays, we play, you … Read more
EDIT 2024: it seems the new version has gone as well ???? EDIT 2019: It looks like they removed this version, as the links don’t work. They have made a new app, which has more information but is also dearer, currently £12.00 Das Verbarium+, German Grammar German verb conjugation can sometimes be a bit of … Read more
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