Tag Archives: New Year vocabulary
German Idioms 34: New Beginnings Posted by Sten on Jan 21, 2022
It’s a new year! Perhaps you have devised some gute Vorsätze fürs neue Jahr (m, New Year’s resolutions) to finally get fit, wake up earlier, take up your weekends to truly rest, or finally do those trips you wanted to go on. We like doing this at the beginning of the year, as it’s a new Anfang (m…
Will You Get Lucky In 2018? Posted by Sten on Jan 18, 2018
It is 2018, a new year! That not only means setting new year’s resolutions and goals, but it also means wishing people a happy new year, and wishing each other luck. How? Find out. Frohes neues! 1. Ich/Wir wünsche(n) viel Glück und Erfolg im neuen Jahr! I/We wish good luck and success in the new year!…
New Year’s Day Activities In German Posted by Constanze on Jan 1, 2016
People always have plenty of ideas for things to do on Silvester (New Year’s Eve) – auf eine Party gehen (go to a party), Zuhause feiern (celebrate at home), Feuerwerk anschauen (watch the fireworks) – but what about on New Year’s Day? New Year’s Day is called der Neujahrstag in German. Like in many other…
New Year’s Resolutions: Health and Fitness Vocabulary Posted by Constanze on Jan 15, 2015
Guten Tag, ihr Lieben! This is a follow-up to my post, How To Talk About New Year’s Resolutions In German, and focuses on something I am very passionate about – health and fitness. What has health and fitness got to do with New Year’s Resolutions, and learning German? These statistics from presseportal.de will explain! According…
How To Talk About New Year’s Resolutions in German Posted by Constanze on Jan 8, 2015
Sonne, Mond und Sterne, alles liegt in weiter Ferne, doch das Gute das ist ganz nah – ein glückliches und schönes neues Jahr! Happy new year! This is one of many New Year’s greetings in German, which translated into English goes something like this (please note that this is my own translation – not an…