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German with Nashi, lesson 1 Personal pronounPresent Tense

~Personal Pronouns~

Singular

ich - I
du - you
er/sie/es - he/she/it

Plural

wir - we
ihr - you
sie - they

Verbs in present tense

Verbs in German end with -en or -n. Examples are "spiel[b]en[/b]" (to play), "lauf[b]en[/b]" (to walk), ...

to be able to use verbs with personal pronouns you will have to find the root of the word. For this you only have to take away -en or -n.

to apply it to a personal pronoun you will have to add it to a "forumla" which is as follows:

ich [root][b]e[/b]
du [root][b]st[/b]
er/sie/es [root][b]t[/b]
wir [root][b]en[/b]
ihr [root][b]t[/b]
sie [root][b]en[/b]

Example "spielen"

spielen -en -> root = spiel

ich [spiel]e
du [spiel]st
er/sie/es [spiel]t
wir [spiel]en
ihr [spiel]t
sie [spiel]en

This works with pretty much every verb - but once we move on to past tense you will also have to deal with irregular verbs so for now if you want to practise this I have a list of regular verbs to make it easier:

lieben - to love
tanzen - to dance
beugen - to bow
lachen - to laugh
motzen - to nag
heulen - to whine
weinen - to cry
sagen - to say
heilen - to heal
kaufen - to buy
schenken - to gift
kratzen - to scratch
bauen - to build

there's more but I think this is enough for now.

I'll work on this lesson some more once I'm back from work tomorrow morning. If you don't understand anything let me know ^^
I'm sorry this looks sloppy I wrote this within few minutes

Also a little poll for myself to see if I should continue. If nobody wants it I'll save my time

May 28, 2013

21 Comments • Newest first

Nashi

@SpiritOfMir: awww don't worry you can do it in the future probably just try to speak German regularly to keep it fresh (and learning by doing is the best way a lot of times) and once you got a great job come here and explore xD

Reply December 25, 2013
SpiritOfMir

@Nashi: Yeah.... Ich will zu Deutschland gehen aber habe Ich kein geld...

Reply December 25, 2013
Nashi

@SpiritOfMir: awwww yeah I understand... There's people everywhere that have issues with it and there's also no rules for genders of things sadly so that's just something aquired by studying which can be pretty annoying.
Do you plan to ever go to Germany though? From what I can tell people would understand you well enough for you to have a great time just need lots of money xD

Reply December 23, 2013
SpiritOfMir

@Nashi: Well... my school was offering it and I thought it would be a good language to learn Although Akkusativ, Dativ, und Genetiv really screwed me over... Having to remember rules, adjectival endings, gender accusative, dative and genitive: [url=http://german.about.com/library/blcase_sum2.htm]Deutsche Grammatik rules T_T[/url]
also beendete Ich Deutsch lernen.

Reply December 23, 2013
Nashi

@SpiritOfMir: Why German though o.o what gets people interested in it?

Reply December 23, 2013
Nashi

@SpiritOfMir: I haven't had any grammar lessons since like 6 years so I can't explain some stuff like that but I have more understanding of grammar than most Germans nowadays I had to take a class before where what felt like 90% of my class didn't know ANYTHING about grammar sadly.
Thank you for that mini lesson ^^
German has an incredible lot of grammatical rules, you can hardly learn it all. I've read several books about grammar (there's a rather funny series of I think 3 books that I enjoyed the most) but it's simply impossible to memorize it all, sadly. But a fun hobby!

Also:
Deutsch hat vielen grammatik gesetze. Sie m:ussen ihre einige sprache verstehen!
-> viele
-> Grammatik (noun!)
-> Gesetze (it's really up to you if you write it in one word or seperated by a "-". It's better to refer to it as "Regeln" though.)
-> "mu:ssen" = muessen. If you don't have the letter you can write ue instead. Same with ae and oe. And for the Eszett you can use ss. I've seen Americans use a capital B for it before, please don't do that xD strangely enough basilmarket blocks all these letters...BOO!
-> ihre = Ihre. If you use the polite form to write someone you have to write Sie and Ihr/Ihre with the first letter capitalized. You can do the same when you use "Du", which is an old form used in letters and such. Not so common anymore but possible.
-> eigene, not einige.
-> sprache = Sprache. Nouns are always written with a capital letter.

It's still interesting there's so many people out there who actually learn German. I've never understood the reason xD Why'd you learn it?

Reply December 23, 2013
SpiritOfMir

[quote=Nashi]@FuGeeLa: more than one letter o.o du-> dich
"Ich liebe dich" is the correct form ^^
As of now I can't quite explain that part though. Spent the past days figuring out words and grammar to teach my Fiance. Trying to make it as simple as possible and trying to find specific systems in my language so I can make it much easier for him xD urgh! Pretty hard[/quote]

Dich is used because it is in Accusitive form, making "YOU" the indirect object.
it wouldn't be right to say "Ich liebe dir" because it would mean I love to you.

Und dir? makes sense as it means "and you?" making YOU the direct object
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Deutsch hat vielen grammatik gesetze. Sie m:ussen ihre einige sprache verstehen!

Reply December 22, 2013
Nashi

@screwriod: Gut, und dir?
I guess people are always taught to be overly polite first... you really didn't have to use "Ihnen", you could have used "dir" instead (or "Dir" like some do it in letters)
@pinksinsftw: Fr[url=http://cloud.bench.li/images/original/15974.png]ae[/url]ulein
Since Americans (and a lot of others) can't write it (and Basil is so sweet to block it....) you substitute it with ae (just like the u and o with two dots on top -> ue and oe)
1 = eins you forgot an s
ein is only used in context (e.g. ein Buch = one(/a) book)
Also, words like Fraeulein and Herr are written with a capital (Names and nouns are always written that way)
You should learn more German ;D I'm sure there's more of it hidden all around xD

Reply June 2, 2013 - edited
pinksinsftw

Thanks to Pokemon I learned Ein Zwei and Drei mean one, two, and three.
Thanks to my ex's little brother Klavier Gavin ja means yes, fraulein means young lady, and herr means Mister.

Reply May 30, 2013 - edited
screwriod

Hallo, Nashi

Wie geht es Ihnen?

Reply May 30, 2013 - edited
Nashi

@FuGeeLa: yes it is. and I'm not rubbing salt in your wounds D; not on purpose anyway

Reply May 30, 2013 - edited
FuGeeLa

@Nashi Why must you rub salt on my wounds
Is German gender specific like French?

Reply May 29, 2013 - edited
Nashi

@FuGeeLa: more than one letter o.o du-> dich
"Ich liebe dich" is the correct form ^^
As of now I can't quite explain that part though. Spent the past days figuring out words and grammar to teach my Fiance. Trying to make it as simple as possible and trying to find specific systems in my language so I can make it much easier for him xD urgh! Pretty hard

Reply May 29, 2013 - edited
FuGeeLa

@Nashi I was one letter off

Reply May 29, 2013 - edited
Nashi

@Dreadia: That's simply because I like japanese has no meaning really.
Nashi just used to be my favy fruit (same name in German)
@Conceited: Oh, you're German too? o:
@FuGeeLa: *dich xD how sweet!
@Doutei: I only know one Russian Song that I really like ([url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9kyFfyODsQ]7th Floor[/url])

Reply May 29, 2013 - edited
Doutei

it was fun reading this.
german and russian sound so good in pop.

Reply May 29, 2013 - edited
FuGeeLa

Ich liebe du <3

Reply May 29, 2013 - edited
Dreadia

Sry if I am mistaken, your IGN and Basil name seem to be Japanese.

Reply May 29, 2013 - edited
Nashi

@Dreadia: yes I am > x<

guess I should have put this in chat section though~ grr

Reply May 29, 2013 - edited
Dreadia

Are you German yourself?

Reply May 29, 2013 - edited