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Time
now
jetzt (yetst)
later
später (SHPET-er)
before
vor (for)
morning
Morgen (MOR-gen)
in the morning
morgens (MOR-genss)
tomorrow morning
morgen früh (MOR-gen FRUU)
afternoon
Nachmittag (NAHKH-mit-tahk)
in the afternoon
nachmittags (NAHKH-mit-tahks)
evening
Abend (AH-bent)
in the [...]
In German, the roles of dot and comma are swapped compared to their English counterparts. The grouping separator in big numbers is a dot (.), not a comma(,); the separator between decimal fractions and integer is a comma (,), not a dot (.).
E.g.: 1,000 in English is 1.000 in German; 3.14159 in English is 3,14159 [...]
Leave me alone.
Lass / Lassen Sie mich in Ruhe . (LAHS(-un zee) mikh in ROO-uh)
Don’t touch me!
Fass / Fassen Sie mich nicht an! (FAHS(-un zee) mikh nikht AHN!)
I’ll call the police.
Ich rufe die Polizei. (ikh ROO-fuh dee poh-lee-TSIGH)
Police!
Polizei! (poh-lee-TSIGH!)
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Good day.
Guten Tag. (GOO-ten tahk, formal) better: Hallo (informal)
How are you?
Wie geht’s? (vee gayts?) used as a real question, not a form of greeting.
Fine, thank you.
Danke, gut. (DAN-keh, goot)
What is your name?
Wie heißen Sie? (vee HIGH-sen zee?)
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German pronunciation is relatively straightforward, although spelling is somewhat more involved.
Vowels
a
like ‘u’ in “cup”, ‘a’ in “target”
e
like ‘e’ in “ten”, ‘a’ in “bake”
i
like ‘i’ in “bingo”
o
like ‘oo’ in “door”, like ‘o’ in “mole”
u
like ‘ou’ in “you” [...]
German is the official and main language of Germany, Austria, and Liechtenstein. It is also an official language of Switzerland, and Luxembourg and spoken as a regional language in Namibia. Furthermore, German is spoken in the French regions of Alsace (German: Elsass) and Lorraine (German: Lothringen), in the northern Italian province of South Tyrol (German: [...]
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