{"id":13138,"date":"2021-07-07T21:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T21:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/?p=13138"},"modified":"2021-07-12T10:55:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T10:55:34","slug":"points-in-time-in-german","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/points-in-time-in-german\/","title":{"rendered":"Points In Time In German"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guten Tag! Today we\u2019re going to look at how to talk about different points in time in German. We\u2019ve looked previously at how to tell the time \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/?s=telling+time&amp;submit=Submit+Search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see this tag for lots of posts on that subject!<\/a> \u2013 but what if you want to talk about something that happened yesterday, last week, or one hour ago? How about something that you anticipate will happen next week, in three days, or one hour from now? This post will teach you some words and phrases for just that!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13139\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13139\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13139\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/stil-flRm0z3MEoA-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"points in time\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/stil-flRm0z3MEoA-unsplash.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/stil-flRm0z3MEoA-unsplash-263x350.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@stilclassics?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">STIL<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/calendar?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Points in time in German: The basics<\/h2>\n<p>First, let\u2019s refresh our memories with some basics:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today:<\/strong> heute<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tomorrow:<\/strong> morgen<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yesterday:<\/strong> gestern<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now:<\/strong> jetzt<\/p>\n<h2>Some more, efficient German words!<\/h2>\n<p>We know that German has a unique ability to fit into single words concepts that take whole phrases to explain in English. When it comes to describing certain points in time, there are a few German words that do this job well:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00dcbermorgen \u2013<\/strong> The day after tomorrow (literally \u2018over-tomorrow\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00dcber\u00fcbermorgen \u2013<\/strong> The day after the day after tomorrow&#8230; ie. in 3 days\u2019 time (<em>in drei Tagen<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vorgestern \u2013<\/strong> The day before yesterday (literally \u2018before yesterday\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vorvorgestern \u2013<\/strong> The day before the day before yesterday\u2026 ie. 3 days ago (<em>vor drei Tagen<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Next year, last week, one hour ago!<\/h2>\n<p>Now, here are some more phrases to express specific dates or points in time in German:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>This week:<\/strong> diese Woche<\/li>\n<li><strong>Next week:<\/strong> n\u00e4chste Woche<\/li>\n<li><strong>Last week:<\/strong> letzte Woche<\/li>\n<li><strong>The week after next:<\/strong> \u00fcbern\u00e4chste Woche<\/li>\n<li><strong>The week before last:<\/strong> vorletzte Woche<\/li>\n<li><strong>Next Tuesday:<\/strong> n\u00e4chsten Dienstag<\/li>\n<li><strong>Last Tuesday:<\/strong> letzten Dienstag<\/li>\n<li><strong>In a week\u2019s time:<\/strong> in einer Woche<\/li>\n<li><strong>A week ago:<\/strong> vor einer Woche<\/li>\n<li><strong>In one hour:<\/strong> in einer Stunde<\/li>\n<li><strong>One hour ago:<\/strong> vor einer Stunde<\/li>\n<li><strong>A few hours ago:<\/strong> vor ein paar Stunden<\/li>\n<li><strong>In the next few days:<\/strong> in den n\u00e4chsten paar Tagen<\/li>\n<li><strong>A few seconds ago:<\/strong> vor ein paar Sekunden<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13140\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13140\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13140\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/waldemar-brandt-ra_dE26_CgY-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"points in time\" width=\"640\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/waldemar-brandt-ra_dE26_CgY-unsplash.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/waldemar-brandt-ra_dE26_CgY-unsplash-350x225.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@waldemarbrandt67w?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Waldemar Brandt<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/calendar?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>I hope this has been helpful to you. To finish, here are some<em> example sentences<\/em> using words and phrases from this list, so you can see how they are used in context:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Das war erst vor ein paar Sekunden<\/strong><br \/>\nThat was just a few seconds ago<\/p>\n<p><strong>Was hast du letzte Woche gemacht?<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat did you do last week?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wir sehen uns dann \u00fcbermorgen!<\/strong><br \/>\nWe\u2019ll see each other the day after tomorrow, then!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Was kommt\u00a0n\u00e4chsten Dienstag im Fernsehen?<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat\u2019s on TV next Tuesday?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gestern hat es stark geregnet.<\/strong><br \/>\nIt rained heavily yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diese Woche habe ich leider keine Zeit.<br \/>\n<\/strong>I don\u2019t have time this week, sadly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heute ist ein sehr guter Tag.<\/strong><br \/>\nToday is a very good day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"263\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/stil-flRm0z3MEoA-unsplash-263x350.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"points in time\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/stil-flRm0z3MEoA-unsplash-263x350.jpg 263w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/stil-flRm0z3MEoA-unsplash.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><p>Guten Tag! Today we\u2019re going to look at how to talk about different points in time in German. We\u2019ve looked previously at how to tell the time \u2013 see this tag for lots of posts on that subject! \u2013 but what if you want to talk about something that happened yesterday, last week, or one&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/points-in-time-in-german\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":13139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[376077,95131,376023,156],"class_list":["post-13138","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-language","tag-date","tag-german-language","tag-language","tag-time"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13144,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13138\/revisions\/13144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}