German Speaking Maggers

[behemoth]

I'd highly recommend you go pick up a book called 501 German Verbs... it contains ALL the conjugations for 501 irregular verbs... you really only need present and present perfect tense.

The real trick with German is that its easier to use the polite formal sentence structure, as it is A) Polite and applicable to any group of people/individual, and B) you only need to remember the root verb form. Some people may find you funny for always using it, but you'll be understood much better than if you mangle conjugations.

once you know a pile of verbs (a few hundred is a good start...) nouns are easy to pic up, until you get into compound words... knowing the gender of each noun is very important as well...

Prepositions are also very very helpful.

accusative: bis - until, durch - through, fur - for (don't forget the umlaut over the u), gegen - against, ohne - without, um - around.

dative: aus - out of, bei - near, mit - with, nach - after, seit - since, von - from, zu - to

accusative and dative prepositions change how the gender of the noun in question is affected in the sentence structure...

that's Fritz's German lesson of the day...

-Fred

VEE DUB, REPRESENTING DEUTSCHLAND.

[Pyroboy597]

PS.... what the hell is Flugstelleschaft?!?!?

Airline

[Glickman]

VEE DUB, REPRESENTING DEUTSCHLAND.

[Pyroboy597]

The French are invading!

[WenULiVeUdiE]

So I was curious if it'd be allowed, or if anyone would have the interest to keep a little thread speaking in mostly German.

To start things off...

Mein name ist "Maggot6", ich will sprechen in Deutsche.

It really should be:

"Ich heisse "Maggot6". Ich will in Deutsche sprechen."

Wollen is a model verb, which moves the "standard" (for lack of better terms) verb to the end and puts it in the infinitive form. For example, "Ich will Gulaschsuppe essen."

[Pyroboy597]

Yea, work on the dative case and the modal auxillery verbs. Obviously people who spoke fluently would understand you, but you would sound like a nub!

[WenULiVeUdiE]

Also, when you are speaking German, do not worry about if you got the "der, die, das" correct. When speaking in Germany, people usually slur these articles and their relatives quite alot.
For example, if I were to say "Welchen Lehrerin..." in Germany, nobody would notice (it should be 'welche').

[Maggot6]

[Pyroboy597]

Past tense (perfect) has a 't' added onto the verbs for first person. If I wanted to say "I went to school.", it would be "Geht ich nach die Schule." The verb comes to the front in most cases. There are also exceptions that have vowel changes and what not. For future tense you can just say "I will...." I believe. Also, for past tense the word 'war' means was. Als ich war 13, geht ich nach Deutschland. <--- When I was 13, I went to Germany.

[WenULiVeUdiE]

So, how do you say "I am a nub/n00b"?

An no, I do not mind if anyone corrects me, because frankly, I need everything I can get.

Ich habe nicht sprechen mit jedermann in **vocal** Deutsch bis Gestern. Ich ausfalle!..

Another thing I realized, I have no idea how to do the past or future tense...

Danke wieder

'Ich bin ein n00b.'

Future tense is actually quite easy. It requires the use of the model auxillery verb "werden". Simply place it after your subject and put the infintive (i.e. essen instead of esse) at the very end of sentence.

Ich esse Weiner Schnitzel.
Ich werde Weiner Schnitzel essen.

More to come!

Bitte!

[master_alexander]

im learning german too, in my second year. im visiting relatives at the end of summer in austria, im excited.

and idk if anyone has said this yet:

du bist doof! (sounds like du bist dofe) and it basically means your an idiot.

also when you go to germany, if you happen to be driving, dont yell at other drivers, its a fine. if you call someone a "stinky stiefel" (stinky boot) its a 700 euro fine. woah.

Ich muss zu hause helfen, tut mier lied. bis spater dann!

[Fred]

austrians don't speak german, their dialect will SERIOUSLY screw you up if you get it ingrained...

[Maggot6]

Prepositions are also very very helpful.
accusative: bis - until, durch - through, fur - for (don't forget the umlaut over the u), gegen - against, ohne - without, um - around.
dative: aus - out of, bei - near, mit - with, nach - after, seit - since, von - from, zu - to
accusative and dative prepositions change how the gender of the noun in question is affected in the sentence structure...
that's Fritz's German lesson of the day...
-Fred.

Toll! Irgendjemand haben guten hinweisen?

[Soopa Villain17]

i really wanna learn german, is it difficult ?

[master_alexander]

i really wanna learn german, is it difficult ?

it starts easy and gets harder, it depends on how you learn, your teacher, and if you already learned a different language. for me, it was easier. my mom speeks german all the time, and so did my grandmother.