Videos to learn German Grammer.

The below website has many free videos to teach German grammer:

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Excellent Source to learn Vocabulary.

I found the below link extremely useful to learn Vocabulary:

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Entertaining Videos

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A conversation in German

A video on Vocabulary

Vocabulary List -3 (verbs)

List of few verbs:

erklären = to explain
üben = to practice
verstehen = to understand, to comprehend
diktieren = to dictate
bedeuten = to mean
hören = to listen
schreiben = to write
lieben = to love
leben = to live
reden = to talk
kosten = to cost
sehen = to see
gefallen = to appeal to
sprechen = to speak
lesen = to read

Vocabulary List - 2

This post lists few nouns in German and their meanings.

der Wagen = vehicle
das Auto = car
das Taxi = taxi
das Büro = office
das Haus = house
die Zeitung = newspaper
die Briefmarke = postage stamp
der Kiosk = small shop
der Brief = letter
der Bus = bus
das Pfund = pound (weight)
die Fahrt = trip
die Pause = break
die Tasche = bag
das Buch = book

Note : The articles (der, die, das) signify the gender of the nouns.

Definite Articles

All the German nouns have one of the three genders i.e Masculine, Feminine or Neuter gender.
The gender of the noun in expressed with one of the definite articles der, die, das.

The article "der" is used with nouns having Masculine gender.
Example : Mann means Man. This has masculine gender, hence expressed as der Mann

The article "die" is used with nouns having Feminine gender.
Example : Frau means woman. This has feminine gender, hence expressed as die Frau

The article "das" is used with nouns having Neuter gender.
Example : Auto means car. This has neuter gender, hence expressed as das Auto

And all the plural nouns use the article "die".

Few points about German nouns:
Most of German learners feel remembering the genders of nouns as one of the most difficult tasks. It is advisable to remember the nouns along with their articles.

All the German nouns begin with a capital letter. Ex: das Auto, die Frau, der Mann etc.

To learn more about articles in German, watch this video : Click here

Vocabulary List - 1 (verbs)

This post lists the meanings of few verbs in German. Click on the word to know more about it.

fragen = to question, to ask
antworten = to answer, to reply
kommen = to come
heißen = to call
machen = to make
studieren = to study
arbeiten = to work
wohnen = to reside, to stay
gehen = to go
lernen = to learn
fahren = to travel
fliegen = to fly
ergänzen = to complete
wiederholen = to repeat
bilden = to build

Personal Pronouns

This post explains Personal Pronouns in German.
The following picture gives the list of personal pronouns used in German language.

Note: 2nd person pronouns have formal and Informal cases in German. "du" and "ihr" are used in informal case, and "Sie" (with capital "S") is used in formal case.

More information on pronouns can be found at this link : Click here

Also, watch this video for usage and pronunciation of pronouns : Click here
Another interesting video on Personal Pronouns : Click here

What's your name?

This post describes different ways of asking name of a person and telling your name.

You can ask someone's name with Wie ist Ihr Name, bitte?
This expression literally means "What is your name, please?"
The answer to this question can be Mein Name ist XYZ

Another way of asking someone's name is Wie heissen Sie?
Wie means "How", heissen means "to be called as" and Sie is formal case for "you". Hence this expression can be translated as "How are you called as".
The answer to this question can be Ich heisse XYZ.

The expression Wer sind Sie? can be used to ask name. This means "Who are you?"
The reply for this question can be Ich bin XYZ which means "I am XYZ".

The above three expressions formal ways of asking someone's name.

Wie heisst du? also is used to ask someone's name, but this is used in informal context. The reply to this question can be Ich heisse XYZ

Vocabulary from this post (click on the word for more information):

Wie	How
ist	Is
Ihr	You
Name	Name
bitte	Please
Mein	My
Heissen	to be called as
Wer	Who
Ich	I

Days, Months and Seasons!

In this post, we will see names of Days, Months and Seasons in German.

Day in German is called as Tag and the plural form is Tage
Week in German is called as Woche.
so One Week = Seven Days => Eine Woche = Sieben Tage

Days of the week in German:
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Monday -- Montag
Tuesday -- Dienstag
Wedensday -- Mittwoch
Thursday -- Donnerstag
Friday -- Freitag
Saturday -- Samstag
Sunday -- Sonntag

Weekend is called as Wochenende

German word for Month is Monat and the plural for monat is Monate
so One Month = Eine Monat and Two Months = Zwei Monate
Year in German is called as Jahr and plural is Jahre
so One Year = Eine Jahr = Zwölf Monate

Months in German:
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January -- Januar
February -- Februar
March -- März
April -- April
May -- Mai
June -- Juni
July -- Juli
August -- August
September -- September
October -- Oktober
November -- November
December -- Dezember

Seasons in German:
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Spring -- Frühling
Summer -- Sommer
Autumn/Fall -- Herbst
Winter -- Winter


You can learn the pronunciation of German, Months and Seasons in the video : Click Here

Few sentences in German.

In this post, we will learn few sentences in German.

1.) If you want to ask someone "How are you?" in German, you have to ask: Wie Geht's Dir?
And as a response to this question you can say Mir Geht's Gut, Danke! Und du? which means "I am good, Thank you! And you?".

2.) If you want to know someone's name, you have ask Wie heisst du? which means "What is your name?". And as you can tell your name by saying Ich heisse XYZ which means "My name is XYZ"

3.) If you have to ask someone where he/she came from, you can ask Woher kommst du? which means "Where do you come from?". The response to this question could be Ich Komme aus XYZ which means "I come from XYZ".

German word for "Yes" is Ja, "No" is Nein and Maybe is Vielleicht.

You can learn the pronunciation of these sentences from this Video: Click here

German Alphabet

In this post, we will learn German Alphabet and pronunciation. German also uses Roman Script as does English. In addition to the 26 letters of English Alphabet, German has 4 more characters (Ä, Ö, Ü, ß). The German letters are pronounced as shown below:

A -- ah
B -- bay
C -- say
D -- day
E -- ay
F -- eff
G -- gay
H -- haa
I -- eeh
J -- yot
K -- kah
L -- ell
M -- emm
N -- enn
O -- oh
P -- pay
Q -- koo
R -- err
S -- ess
T -- tay
U -- ooh
V -- fow
W -- vay
X -- ixx
Y -- oop-see-lohn
Z -- zett

Ä -- ay

Ö -- ooh

Ü -- uyuh

ß -- ess-zett

You can here the pronunciation of German alphabet in this Video :
German Alphabet Pronunciation

For Addition Information on German Alphabet, please visit this webpage:
Additional Information

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Short and Useful sentences.

In this post we will learn few short and useful everyday sentences in German. I have tried here to explain the meanings of these words. If you wish to learn more about these words, please click on the word.

Few words to greet someone like saying "Hi", "Hello" etc

Hallo : This word is similar to "Hello" in English. for greeting friends and known people

Guten Morgen means "Good Morning"
Guten Abend means "Good Evening"
Guten Tag means "Good Day"
Gute Nacht means "Good Night"


Few words to say Bye:

Auf Wiedersehen : This is used to say "Good Bye" to someone when u don't know when you will meet the person again. It means "See you again sometime". Its also a polite way to say good bye.

Tschüss: This word means "Bye". This is to say good bye to someone u know

Ciao : This word is used to say Hi or Bye. Its pronounced as "Chou". Its an Italian word.

Bis Bald : See you soon.
This word is used when you know that you will meet the person soon (say 1 or 2 days later).

Bis später : see u later
This is used when you know that you will meet that person sometime later on the same day.

Bis Morgen : See you tomorrow.
The word Morgen has two meanings "Morning" and "Tomorrow". Here its used as Tomorrow.

Bitte : Please
ex: can you give that key, please..(this please is called as Bitte)
Bitte has another meaing "You're welcome".

Danke : Thank you


To learn the pronunciation of these words, you can watch the following video:
Day2 Pronunciation

German Numbers (1 - 12)

In this post, we learn german numbers from 1 to 12.

1 - Eins
2 - Zwei
3 - Drei
4 - Vier
5 - Fünf
6 - Sechs
7 - Sieben
8 - Acht
9 - Neun
10 - Zehn
11 - Elf
12 - Zwölf

To learn pronunciation of these numbers, watch the following Video:
1 - 10 pronunciation