Saturday, June 25, 2011

Deutsch!

I'll admit, today's blog post is more of a special interest post, especially for my father.  He's been working (very diligently!) and learning a bit of German, and I had been helping him before I left home, and I don't see why I shouldn't continue to do so.  So today is just a bit of vocabulary; feel free to take a look or to pass it over.

Wohnen   -  To live (in a location)
(VO-nen, almost rhymes with Roman)
Normal conjugation
past participle: gewohnt (haben)

ich wohne
du wohnst
er/sie/es wohnt
wir wohnen
Sie wohnen
ihr wohnt
sie wohnen

Ich wohne in Massachusetts.
Ich habe in California gewohnt.
Ich wohne in einem Haus.
Wo wohnst du?
Ich weiss nicht, wo ich naechstes Jahr wohnen werde.

(I live in Massachusetts)
(I lived in California)
(I live in a house)
(Where do you live?)
(I don't know where I will live next year)

verstehen (to understand)
(fair-SCHTAY-en)
normal conjugation
past participle: verstanden (haben)

verstehe
verstehst
versteht

verstehen
verstehen
versteht
verstehen

Ich habe verstanden.
Ich habe nicht verstanden.
Hast du verstanden, was ich gesagt habe?
Ich verstehe nicht was wir machen.
Ich kann dich nicht verstehen.
Verstehst du mich?

I understood.
I didn't understand.
Did you understand what I said?
I don't understand what we're doing.
I can't understand you.
Do you understand me?

Gucken/Schauen (german/austrian, to look or to watch)
(cook-en/show-en, (ow as in, ow! that hurts!))
normal conjugation
past participles: geguckt (haben), geschaut (haben)
Often used with preposition an (at)
Words are completely interchangeable.

Gucke mal!  Schaue mal!
(Look!, or, Look at that!)
Gucke mich an.  Schaue mich an.
(Look at me.)
Kannst du (mal) gucken, ob wir Brot haben?
Kannst du (mal) schauen, ob wir Brot haben?
(Can you see if we have bread?  ob = if)
Er hat mich angeguckt.  Er hat mich angeschaut.
(He looked at/watched me)

other words:


das Buch (BOO-ch, the book)
lesen, gelesen (LAY-zen, to read, read (past tense))
das Haus (HOW-s, the house)
das Kind (kint, the child)
spielen, gespielt (SPEEL-en, to play, played)
das Handy (cell phone)
der Stuhl (shtool, the chair)
der Sessel (ZESS-el, the armchair)
das Computer 

Have a nice weekend!



2 comments:

  1. There is another Time in German its called FutureII


    Ich werde in diesem Haus gewohnt haben.

    Means, i don't know the 1 by 1 translation,

    I will have lived in this house.

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