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Learn About It In German: Muskelkater Posted by Constanze on Feb 26, 2020
Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS, as it is commonly known in English) describes the pain and soreness felt in your muscles a day or two after working out, or doing some form of hard, physical labour. The German language has a fantastic word for this: Der Muskelkater, which breaks down to der Muskel (muscle) and…
The German Word ‘der Kater’ Posted by Constanze on Feb 8, 2017
Guten Tag, everybody! In case you weren’t aware yet, I think the German language is truly wonderful. I love it when I tell somebody about an unusual German word and their face lights up. So here’s a post that I hope will make your face light up, too! In this post we’ll learn the German…
Traditional German Apfelkuchen Recipe Posted by Larissa on Jun 27, 2015
Here is a recipe for a traditional German Apfelkuchen (apple cake) that I baked yesterday. This is great übung (practice) for your German, expanding your vocabulary, practicing how to follow a German recipe and at the end of it you can reward yourself with homemade Apfelkuchen! I’ve written the recipe in German and English in case you get…
German grammar in use: The conjugation of the verb “hören” Posted by Sandra Rösner on Oct 1, 2014
The German verb “hören” has got three major meanings: The ability to hear The conscious activity to listen (to) To do what an authority commands you: to obey Additionally, there are several compound verbs with the stem “-hören”, which specify HOW you hear or listen. zuhören – to listen to The verb “zuhören” is a…
Treasury of words – An easy exercise Posted by jan on Mar 27, 2013
I know, I know…learning vocabulary isn´t always fun and sometimes it surely costs some effort to do so. That´s why I don´t want to annoy you. But with this little exercise, you can check your status pretty good. Even if you don´t know all the words! In my opinion this one is relatively easy, so…
Dividable verbs – trennbare Verben Posted by jan on Jan 16, 2013
Although January already is in the middle: Happy new year to all of you! I hope you had some nice Christmas days and a good start in 2013! For me it all began with moving to another apartment. That´s why I was a bit silent the last weeks… I want to start with an exercise…
The most important comma rules in German Posted by jan on Nov 7, 2012
Hi everyone, for being a lazy comma user myself, I will try to show you the most important comma rules in German. Hopefully you will use them more successful than me 🙂 A comma is set… 1. …between main and subordinate clauses – in front of subordinating conjunctions (“dass”, “weil”, etc.) Meine Katze freut sich…