Wow. Has it only been a week? It feels like so much longer. And, guys, I honestly didn’t think I could possibly learn what I have in the last seven days. It gives me hope for the rest of this outrageous endeavour. This week, I’ve watched TV shows, played games, and listened to music in German (unfortunately I don’t have quite enough vocabulary to read much of anything). I learned about gendered words, about plural nouns, and even how to conjugate. And if I can be made to conjugate verbs…well, I must be doing something right. I also learned a ton of words/phrases. I’m almost at 100! A lot of them are the basic phrases, i.e., hello, how are you, my name is, etc. But hopefully going into next week I’ll have the basic foundations to start putting together useful sentences on my own. Anyway, here they are, this week’s words:
- violett = purple (violet)
- lila = purple (lilac)
- der Rucksack = the backpack
- und = and
- das = that
- die Köchin = the female cook
- die Kartofell = the potato
- das Haar = the hair
- lang/lange = long
- der Fisch = the fish
- die Liebe = the love
- nein = no
- ja = yes
- tschüss = bye
- hallo = hello
- danke = thank you
- bitte = please/you’re welcome/pardon?
- gern geschehen = you’re welcome
- Guten Morgen = good morning
- Guten Tag = good day/afternoon
- Guten Abend = good evening
- Gute Nacht = goodnight
- Wie geht’s? (or, Wie geht es Ihnen) = How are you?
- Mir = me
- Mir geht’s gut = I’m doing well
- gehen = to walk, to go
- wilkommen = welcome
- auf wiedersehen = goodbye
- bis bald = see you soon
- bis später = see you later
- bis morgen = see you in the morning
- wir heißen sie? = what is your name?
- ich heißen…= my name is…
- kommen = to come
- woher kommen zie? = where do you come from?
- Ich komme aus… = I come from…
- entschuldigung = excuse me / sorry
- leider = unfortunately
- Es tut mir leid = I’m sorry
- schuld sein = to be at fault
- genau = exactly
- die Zeitung = the newspaper
- das Früstück = the breakfast
- die Milch = the milk
- das Brötchen = the bun
- das Ei = the egg
- der Mittwoch = the Wednesday
- die Welt = the world
- verstehen = to understand
- lernen = to learn
- machen = to make
- hören = to hear
- wo = where
- einfach = easy
- dein/deine = your
- mein/meine = my
- seinen/seine = his
- ihr/ihre = her/their
- unser/unsere = our
- das Geld = the money
- die Freundin = the girlfriend
- die Rechnung = the bill
Add these to last week’s and we get a grand total of 87 words. Woot! A few of the nouns even made it onto the German word wall. Next week, I think my schedule has the pace stepped up even more…