h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hey Danielle!

Would you rather learn some grammar, or some vocabulary, or some phrases? Or do you need help in translating Rammstein lyrics?
I can’t promise that I will be around much in future… but I’ll do my best to resume teaching German (at least now and then ).
Maybe you could start by flicking through what’s already been explained in this thread. With the given information you can try to form sentences and I (or some other teacher?) will correct them. By the by, where have all the teachers gone? Not to mention that most of the students have vanished…

Katkodl

I think some more vocabulary would be good... If I wanna translation of Rammstein lyrics I can just go look it up somewhere, or at least I would if my internet wasn't evil. Anyway... I am fairly sure I know all the stuff you have taight already, I have read over all of it and none of it seemed confusing or anything. 'Sall good.

And yeah... where is everyone?

What would you like vocab on?

WELL! Danielle and I are here....katkodl's sometimes here...susanne...susanne....I'll go find out in a minute...erm...who else? Cats-eyes...who knows!!! In fact....damn my creation isn't working very well.

I dunno... I don't really care. Just as long as it is German. Go German. *waves around an imaginary minature German flag* But for now I am going to go have dinner because it is 12:50 am and I am hungry.

Have we talked about colors yet? I'm not sure...

adjectives - colors:

rot – red
blau – blue
violett - violet
grün – green
gelb – yellow
rosa – pink
türkis – turquoise
orange - orange
grau – gray
braun - brown
schwarz – black
weiß – white


*waves with a little Austrian flag*
By the way: the Austrian flag looks like that:
rot
weiß
rot


Katkodl

Ich weiss das von "The sound of music"

Mein Fuss ist grau und blau und rot und rose!
My foot is grey and blue and red and pink!

Be careful:

die Rose - rose

rosa - pink

eine rosa Rose - a pink rose


das Haar - die Haare / das Haar - hair
Meine Haare sind braun. / Mein Haar ist braun. (The second version is more formal.)
My hair is brown.

das Auge - die Augen - eye(s)
Meine Augen sind auch braun.
My eyes are brown as well.

Wie siehst du aus?
What do you look like?

Katkodl

heehee my hairs are brown! *snorts* sorry.

Mein Hund ist schwarz. Aber sie ist nicht ich, also, meine Haare sind braun mit rot und schwarz. Erm....damn most of me is brown which is a boring colour to talk about!!! Meine Finge ist rosa...

My dog is black. But she is not me, therefore, my hair is brown with red and black.

my finger is pink

hi


Ich habe grun Augen und lange Braune Haare.

grun is ment to have two dots over the U

hier fur dich...

ü ö ä ß
can´t find the e....

Say “ue” instead of “ü”. (oe – ö; ae – ä)

some corrections:

„Mein Finger ist rosa.“ (der Finger, Pl.: die Finger)

„Ich habe grüne Augen.“
oder
„Meine Augen sind grün.“

Brown isn’t boring!!! *feels discriminated against*

Kat seems to be interested in BODY PARTS
Let’s start with the FACE:

das Gesicht (die Gesichter) - face
die Nase (die Nasen) – nose
das Ohr (die Ohren) - ear
der Mund (die Münder) – mouth
die Zunge (die Zungen) – tongue
die Wange (die Wangen) – cheek
die Stirn (I think there’s no plural) – forehead
die Schläfe (die Schläfen) – temple
das Kinn (I think there’s no plural) – chin
der Zahn (die Zähne) – tooth
die Lippe (die Lippen) – lip

Meine Wangen sind bleich. (Ich habe bleiche Wangen.)
My cheeks are pale.

Meine Zunge ist rot. (Ich habe eine rote Zunge.)
My tongue is red.

Katkodl

so how would you say our chins;:_ÄÖÜ*`? damn theres the ? sigh...i nede labels on my keyboard.

Yay! The thread is alive again... Anyway...


Meine Augen sind blau und braun.
My eyes are blue and brown.

Well, actually, the left one is fully blue, but the right one has a weird browny streak in it for no real reason... although sometimes the blue looks green... my eyes are confusing.

Meine Harre sind schwarz. Ich mag meine Harre.
My hair is black. I like my hair.

That’s the problem, Katkat: I have no idea how to say „our chins“ in German!

Instead of saying: “Our chins hurt.”

...reword it: “Everyone’s chin hurts.”

“Jedem schmerzt das Kinn.”

I just talked to my mother and she claims that it’s possible to form a plural of „die Stirn”: “die Stirnen”
I think it sounds wrong or at least very posh.

Danielle, that was very good. No mistakes!

Katkodl

YAY!

MORE BODY PARTS

der Hals (die Hälse) – throat
der Nacken (die Nacken) – neck
die Schulter (die Schultern) – shoulder
der Arm (die Arme) – arm
der Ellbogen (die Ellbogen) – elbow
die Hand (die Hände) – hand
der Finger (die Finger) – finger
der Fingernagel (die Fingernägel) – fingernail
die Handfläche (die Handflächen) – palm
der Handrücken (die Handrücken) – back of the hand
die Faust (die Fäuste) – fist
der Daumen (die Daumen) – thumb

note as well:
die Faustregel (die Faustregeln) – rule of thumb


Meine Finger sind lang und dünn.
My fingers are long and thin.

Meine Fingernägel sind manchmal schwarz lackiert.
My fingernails are sometimes painted black.


Katkodl

Mein Nacken tut weh.
My neck hurts.

What was that about "rule of thumb"?

Ich schlug nicht Katkodl mit meiner Faust
ich habe Schulterschmerzen?
Kannst du meine Handfläche lesen?


I did not hit Katkodl with my fist.
I have a sore throat?
Can you read my palm?

“Die Faustregel” is the translation for “rule of thumb”.

sore throat – die Halsschmerzen (you mixed up the words “Hals” and “Schulter”)

When you want to say “She reads my palm” you’d say “Sie liest in meiner Hand” in German.

Katkat always comes up with the weirdest examples, really!

Katkodl

You just used the word for shoulder instead of throat....