Learn German - Lesson 4

[werewolves105]

Danke!

[gdkoink]

So Nominative is the subject 'doing' the verb. I hope both of them are enjoying it.

[karolino19]

vater is pronounced as ffater?

[TheRahan100]

@karolino19 ja, es ist !

[drnoosaya]

Thank you soooooooooo much .your vidios are helpful. bu I think German is more difficult than english and french. thank you again

[drnoosaya]

thank you sooooo much . but Ihave problem in this language I feel it is the most difficult not like Enlish or French

[MrMattbeezy89]

I have a question about 3:35. how come " Die Eltern der kinder sind in Berlin " isn't translated to " the child's parents are in Berlin" ? what makes " Der Kinder " plural ?

[MrMattbeezy89]

@MrMattbeezy89 for those of you with the same question I figured it out. if it was "the child's parents are in Berlin", it would look like this " die Eltern Dem ( Den makes it plural ) Kinder sind in Berlin "

[wednesdayblues88]

@MrMattbeezy89 hmm.. isnt Kinder referring to children? if ''dem Kinder" then it makes "singular plural", doesnt it?

[kakiyau05]

why the suitcase,luggage and bag have their genders?any rules?

[jonzadamonza]

I'M LEARNDING!

[Iluvmjandpranks]

i dont get why im having trouble with the nominative case :(

[sk8r9871]

@Iluvmjandpranks the nominative is the most basic. you probably understand it in english.

ex: the boy is nice. The boy= nominative. nominative is the subject that IS or IS DOING the verb.

[Iluvmjandpranks]

@sk8r9871 thank you! &thx 4 NOT callin me a retard :)

[julietteyllee66]

Gosh,,even more difficult than Chinese. my god. C'est tres difficile!!

[Fentonskier]

C'est difficile, non?

Speak French and English... Trying German next:)

[MrMattbeezy89]

@Fentonskier me too !

[heylonny]

ich spreche keine Deutsch :P

[harithaj]

I am learning German so that I can speak more languages. I already know 4!

[Iluvmjandpranks]

@harithaj good job! :)

[ericafash]

shit just got interesting.



[MrSunlight79]

I speak 4 foreign languages (english, spanish, french and italian), but this seems to be horrible...I am not sure if I really want to learn german

[ghali274623]

@MrSunlight79 i speak arabic and french and english and some spanish and i learn deutch

[Gustavomazu]

@ghali274623 I am learning...*

[kimskis]

this ROCKS man!!! Bring me some more german please

[miracozkurt]

watched this video but have to watch again again and again. its very complicated. but please dont go to 5th video before you get this subject. basics are important.

[drunkandmisguided]

I have a question:

Can "The parents are in/ have gone to Berlin with the children"

also be said in German as:

"Die Eltern sind in Berlin mit den Kindern."?

or would that be considered incorrect grammar?

[Karash770]

@drunkandmisguided Theoretically you are attaching "with the children" to "in Berlin" in that sentence when they should clearly be attached to "The parents", but of course every german would understand what you mean. Just put "mit den Kindern" in front of "in Berlin".

[drunkandmisguided]

@Karash770

But would that be considered bad grammar or backwards? You know?

For some reason, I read "Die Eltern sind mit den Kindern in Berlin." as "The parents are with the children in Berlin."

Since "The parents are with the children in Berlin." and "The parents are in Berlin with the children." are interchangeable in English, I was just wondering if it was possible that they were interchangeable in German.

They mean the same thing even though the word placement is different.

[OldLordSpeedy]

@drunkandmisguided This is correctly - and of course every german person understand you :-))

[gotahc]

this is tough!

[ericdemilo]

Muy bien! Danke! :)

[datamik]

great!!! Very consistent video,thank you

[drunkandmisguided]

This is where the grammar gets hard.

Come on, bring it on!

[XxSeanOfDeathxX]

I will definitely go through all twenty of these videos, I will also definitely being taking notes, and practicing quite a lot... Just when I'm not so tired from having been up almost 17 hours.

[TheShatzky]

sorry for the mistakes...

[TheShatzky]

I don't understand why teach us ate accusative etc. in pluaral immidiately? shouldn't it be with "das kind" first?

confused!!!1

[mrAZcardinal]

Ok.. so.. with the German declension system... the numbers and genders decide what words to use (sie, die, der, das, sind, sied, bist etc...) While cases decides how the sentence structure is put together? Grammar pretty much?

[mrAZcardinal]

I have not watched it yet.. but your comments are freaking me out. I am rather confident... but I'm scared to hit the play button now. :X

[Th3rslife]

Ich heisst Philip und ich bin dreizehn.

Ich wohnse in Dänemark.

die leksion ist schön!

[sherifbatawy]

16 positions ??! .. that's more than Kamasutra

[sawahiish]

omg what is with the accusative , dative , genitive and nominative shit ? -.- it's soo confusing ! :( good video though, danke (:

[Schutzstafell]

@sawahiish Accusative, dative, genitive, and nominative shit exists in English. But we use 1 or 2 articles with no noun spelling changes to express it.

the house.

of the house

with the house

by the house

for the house, etc

[TheSONUSAMS]

Really very much helpful and User friendly..

[zraptur3]

HARD , its sophisticated :S

[magicalunicornland23]

at first i thought i was understanding it.....

[Ammiiyy]

omg why is everything so hard to understand !!

[Eric23er]

Right now i am 15 but my great grandparents came to America in WWII from Germany and i plan on going there to see were my family grew up so i am learning German.. My Grandma knows it and my mom speaks a lot as well.. So i am planning of to be talking German to people XD and carry on the German in me

[philosophicbeast]

I'm in Germany for a month...and I swear I'm going to learn fluent conversational German before I leave... I'm day three, and I'm starting to pick up on phrases, sentence structure, vocabulary. Let the learning begin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh and I took Latin for 3 years so its not like I have to get used to genitive ...dative ...accusative :-)

[Skelros]

@philosophicbeast

right on!

[nin10do4eve]

@philosophicbeast good lucke.

[PaperCarnival]

I have a midterm exam in a few hours on German for beginners ... These videos are proving very helpful so far :D

[popsita]

#imlearning that it is not easy at all!

[Grobynya666]

die Kinder :DDD

die die die

[Badobsession89]

I helps that the sentence structure seems to be identical to English... so far at least.

These are great vids by the way - thanks.

[JimmyMacJones]

Am I the only one around here who finds all this German grammar lark completely baffling? 'The genitive singular of nouns.' 'Nominative', 'genitive', 'dative', 'accusative' - what the hell does any of this mean? Surely there must be a simpler way of doing this... :-/

[popsita]

@JimmyMacJones sorry life is not always easy. you have to work hard to make it work.

[bluezqy10]

This video is so helpful. thanks a lot...

[pink2009pink]

German Alphabets and the German numbers please...thank you...:)

[alejachan]

those videos are so amazingg!! i have been studing german for 8 months and FINALLYYYY I unerstand the cases.. accusativa and dative... thank youuu so much..

[OnlineSchoolBerlin]

did u know that german and english can be very similar?? check my 5 th lesson on my channel to find out!

[ahsalam76]

hi there ,i am arabic speaking ,to be honest the declension (nominative

dative

accusative

genitive) i found it is bit difficult to get it any one have simple way to understand i will be apprciated thanks alot

[JimmyMacJones]

@ahsalam76 Hello there, I am having the same problem with the grammar. Since viewing this, did you find an easier method of learning? Thank you.

[thegenius242]

learning german isn't hard

[LichenInwestycja]

Crimen Sollicitationis

[BelialfromAbbadon]

Beautiful



[BelialfromAbbadon]

At 4:41 we are saying "The father's" and "The child's" .. . Right ?

[lunyteve]

@BelialfromAbbadon no, its "of the father" and "of the child."

at 4:54 they say "the child's father is in Berlin" and translate it "Der Vater des Kindes ist in Berlin"

a more literal translation: "The father of the child is in Berlin"

The genetive case is possessive: "The boy's pen" "Hank's chair" In German, they do not use an " 's ". They say "The pen of the boy" : "Der Kuli des Jungen"

However, when using proper names you can simply say "Hanks Stuhl" but without the apostrophe.

[BelialfromAbbadon]

@lunyteve it's the same thing . . . if you say the father OF the child or the child's father . .. the meaning is the same. .. . I understand that LITERALLY you are saying the father of the child but . . . the meaning is the same

[lunyteve]

@BelialfromAbbadon I know the meaning is the same, but that's my bad--i just reread your comment and your right. I guess i wasn't paying attention.

but i still hope my comment helped.

[BelialfromAbbadon]

No problem Luny

[BelialfromAbbadon]

This was Perfect .. . you explained it so well 

[qaipak1]

I don't get the whole native gentivve thing :(

[KaiqueSumatso]

Danke dude =)

this is good for me cuz i can practice both english and german!

hell yeah!

for those who want to learn more:

livemocha(its a site) will be very good with these videos =D

[NoMercyLaplace]

great videos!!! thnks 4 uploading

[navarin123]

wow i'm starting study German and these videos help me lots!! thanks :)

[gigi1bokus]

So all german words become feminine in their plural form? Because they all seem to become "die" instead of "der" or "das" (whit a few possible exceptions of course)? Thanks before hand!

[LotrFC]

@gigi1bokus

The plural article of all German nouns is "die". So you were right.

[TouchTyperPHP93]

good video, but this one can be somewhat unclear.... how do we know the plural ending for the noun in each case? that wasnt stated. also you say female genitive singular nouns have no particular ending? does that mean you dont add anything on or does that mean it changes everytime?

[thekleeblaettchen]

@TouchTyperPHP93 i don't quite get what you don't understand.. but i try to explain what i think you don't understand xD

if you have the word.. 'die mutter'. plural 'die mütter'. genitive 'der mütter'..(mother)

'die tomate' plural 'die tomaten' genitive 'der tomaten'.. (tomato)

'Die straßenlaterne' plural 'die straßenlaternen' genitive 'der straßenlaternen' (street lamp)

so.. i THINK there's no difference between the cases 'in the plural' (i'm pretty sure that expression is wrong, sorry^^)...

[xThorProductionsx]

Wow this was confusing at the first time, but now that I understand :D I need to practice a lot so I can put it inside my head :P

[MrPatertot]

What's the difrence between Das, Die, and Der? Like, "Der vatter" 'Die Mutter" "Das auto" Ect please respond

[TouchTyperPHP93]

@MrPatertot

der = masculine

die = feminine

das = neuter

[ChaoticAngel12]

@TouchTyperPHP93 Yes, and in the other lesson it tried telling me my suitcase was a woman, my bag was a man, and my luggage was an it.

[Haevenn]

@ChaoticAngel12 haha lol ;P

[AnnoyingXboxer]

@ChaoticAngel12 Actually is said your bag was a women... :)

[carzpop]

@MrPatertot Hi I am also learning! :)

Apparently I suppose that Der, Die and Das are subjective to gender. (refer to video 'Learn German- Lesson 1'.

Der = the (for referring to male) Die= the (refers to female) and Das= the (refers to no particular gender, eg. the children or the car)

So you would have to say 'Der Vater' its like the (refers to male) father.

[kmottor19]

Lesson 4!

[strauss12345]

About 450,000 people fewer watched this video than the first lesson because they don't have enough patience. Shame on them: these videos are well presented and are professional.

[sramirezsoprano]

@strauss12345 i stopped once i got to the declination system. english doesn't have this, and without rote practice it's too hard.

[miracozkurt]

@sramirezsoprano im Turkish and we have this in our language. but still it comes hard to me.

[Baebol]

cool videos, but what does neuter mean, hermaphrodite? lol seriously cuz it mentions female, male, and neuter

[DJcrots]

@Baebol HE is masculine, SHE is feminine, IT is neuter

[Baebol]

@DJcrots thanks, i got that down now, i asked that retarded question before i started looking at these german lessons

[SuperChristamarie]

Oh this website is fantastic. The whole world of english speakers could know basic German easily just by one click online. I am getting on quite well now grace to this website. I wish i could donate to congratulate whoever took the pains to get these videos done.

[TheLordcrus]

my head is about to explode..

[Schutzstafell]

@manaiem984 English is one of the hardest second languages to learn, primarily due to its lack of patterns in grammar, and excess of commonly used slang. But I'm guessing that you were raised learning English, and never thought about how difficult it would be to learn it with nothing. Und die Sprache ist nicht dumm. nur kompliziert

[Beejjjjjj]

@Schutzstafell , actually English GRAMMAR is very simple. There is no case system like German, no masculine, feminine or neuter. There is no formal versus informal. And there is very little conjugation. For example, the verb "to go" is always conjugated the same way in the present tense (go) except for third person singular (goes): I go, you go, he/she goes, we go, they go. And in the past tense, it's ALWAYS the same conjugation: went. I went, you went, he/she went, we went, they went.

[Schutzstafell]

@Beejjjjjj That's true, but my point made was towards those who were beginning to learn it. For example: our use of idioms, slang, etc. is very excessive in this country when you think about it. And when you think about it from a beginner's point of view, it could be found VERY confusing. "Passed away", those 2 words' dictionary definition makes that phrase make no sense to someone who knows only the basics. "On the go", You can't be on a verb. But the phrases have a valid meaning as "slang".

[dreicemoney]

nomitive, dative, etc.. this shit is complicated

[nesopop]

Nice, that help.

[Billymaysfan6837]

This is very helpful, danke!

[davidmaya1984]

hello....i m confused here in 4:00 Dative case>> Die Eltern sind mit den(why not dem )kindern in Berlin.. or is it because in Dative case plural case is den + n ?? please help

[theinfinitesilence]

@davidmaya1984 If the plural does not end with "s" or "n" in nominative case, you have to add "n" in dative case plural, e.g. die Kinder - den Kindern; die Mütter - den Müttern. ^.^

[Ahornsirup1]

@davidmaya1984 I hope I can help you. (sorry for my bad english) deN is Accusative

and deM is dative. <- That's normaly so BUT "Kindern" is Plural and in the Plural you doesn't wirte a M. So it's "den KinderN". (Singular: "dem Kind")

[thegirclub]

@TheBrendonuriefan1 haha same thts y i want to learn german in the first place xP

wut also helps is doing worksheets and writing cus i kinda get into ur mind sumhow. i can totally translate and undertand their songs from doing tht so ja...just saying :)

[sxv32idf]

these vids are pretty basic. why hasn't it been mentioned yet that the in terms of sentence structure the verb has to be the placed second unless in a question?

[VenomLady1]

Is the grammatical case different ways of putting 'the' where approperiate?

Sorry I'm real confuesed on this

[laidelrosario]

In exercise two for declension system, shouldn't the translation of "The children's parents are in Berlin" be "Die Eltern des Kindes sind in Berlin" since it is genitive? Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Adj19888]

@laidelrosario nah man u need to go back to kinder garten :D

[rosereddoll]

@laidelrosario Close, but that would be "the child's" and not "the children's". German grammar can be a little tricky, I'm having a hard time of it! ^__^

[heinz27012008]

thx for uploaded! 

[andreysolakov]

hello

how can i download this videos ?

thank u

[sonnetxi]

will they still understand me if i mix die, das and der?

[RyoJapan2008]

@sonnetxi

Yes thats no Problem.

Maybe its wron spelled, but every Germen can Unterstand the Meaning.

It can just sound a little bit funny.

[Adj19888]

@sonnetxi no sorry we will not understand you 

[losxyt]

@sonnetxi I do it every day :D I can ensure you that they appreciate a lot if you try, especially because not many of them know English :D

(in my experience: when you have to do experiments with the language and try starting a conversation, start with MEN :D)

[funnybunnysunny123]

@sonnetxi i think their get it ^^

[deryer]

German is gonna take a while.

[fiqakenzou]

OMG its getting tough

[CristinaXLawliet]

OMG!

This german lessons are turning difficult !!!

[xyrielle1]

das video ist schon !

[Adj19888]

@xyrielle1 haha nice

[SuperKingDeeDeeDee]

Thank you for explaining Accusative, Genitive, Dative and Nominative for me.

I was an idiot and didn't understand these four "things" at all.

[TASTIRAINBOW]

i dont understand the declension system:(

[dingsdings2]

wer will denn bitte deutsch lernen? =__=

XDDD

[disease35]

Danke fur das videos, ich bin (I don't know what learning in German is) viel.

[angelzannesa]

"Lernen" is german for learning

[disease35]

@angelzannesa Danke!

[cronin098]

In case nobody else has commented about this, an easier way of knowing nominative, accusative and dative is that nominative is talking about the subject, accusative talks about the direct object, and the dative talks about the indirect object. if you're not familiar with subject, direct object and indirect object, don't even worry about it. This isn't a bad way of learning about those uses anyway.

[ahoyaimee]

I'm really getting the hang of this language.

Can't wait to visit Germany!

Love from America! :)

[melbourneopera]

Kinder = children in German term

so that's how kindergarden comes?

[dasgellendehorn]

yep!

[tristaotezoira]

Pretty nice lessons! It helps a lot! I am from Brazil and I've just started to study German. Thanks a lot!

[viridianaprz]

ok "Die Eltern sind mit den kinder in Berlin." English "The parents (are in) or (have gone to) Berlin with the children." HOW WOULD YOU KNOW THEN THAT THE PARENTS "ARE IN BERLIN" OR "HAVE GONE TO BERLIN" THAT MAKES NO SENSE even Spanish it has a sense to it ?:/ this is confusing please HILFE!??

[dasgellendehorn]

1.) its a fact, that they are in Berlin. No matter when or how they got there or if they live there.

Theres a house. Friends ring the door bell. Granny comes to open the door. Friends ask: "are the parents and the children at home?" granny answers: "no, they are in Berlin. They have gone to Berlin yesterday".

[natemorey]

@dasgellendehorn ummm what?

[edrart15]

die Eltern SIND = the parents are

MIT= with

den Kinder=the children

in Berlin

[dasgellendehorn]

den KinderN

[edrart15]

:D sorry

[Xorcrupt]

Wow. This is confusing lol. But interesting too.

[MrGoodprince]

Khan .

i love this LANGUAGE

i Wish i Learn the German .thank you very much your lesson is helping me a lot

[cicofly13]

I think that spanish speaking people can pronounce the german accent pretty good. I am Mexican and i find it easier to pronounce

Ich denke, dass spanische sprechende Leute den deutschen ziemlich guten Akzent aussprechen können. Ich bin mexikanisch, und ich finde es leichter mich auszusprechen.

[kybarx3]

How do you say 'parent' singularly, as in one parent?

Is the article masculine, femimine or neuter?

[dasgellendehorn]

1.) theres no singular in german for "eltern", its ALWAS plural. But one can say : ein Elternteil.

2.) no grammer gender. its neither masculinum, nor feminine, nor neutrum because its plural.

[kybarx3]

Thank you soo much! I've been reading some of the other comments and noticed you know a lot about German. How do you know so much?

[dasgellendehorn]

@kybarx3

lol, thx, but its simple, im Austrian.

[Adun4184]

i found that the video lessons are best after finishing the lessons on their website first, but that is just my opinion

[zachalgermac]

Danke! Ich habe viele lerne gesehen, aber deine lerne ist sehr gut. Ich habe deutsch in der schule gelernt und du haben mir geholfen. Ich bin Englisch , Dankeschon

[abdo9086]

I wonder who made these rules?

Ich frage mich, wer diese Regeln gemacht?

[92magdeburg]

Gott bless Sie. seher danke, herr, ihre video ist die besten. ich suche viele site in internet aber dass ist die besten.

[rafaellimpim]

Thank you very much for the lessons. I'm Learning a lot.

[AKADZASTER]

der vater ist DARTH VADER

[MetalHeadMassacre]

Thanks so much for your lessons :)

you saved me alot of time

[ifyrita123]

thank you very much, your lesson is helping me a lot .. but i find it diffcult to prononuce the words the exact way,

[aiceberry2000]

Your video's are indeed helpful... Isn't it the correct translation of "The Eltern sind mit die Kinder in Berlin" = The parents are with the children in Berlin. Which is generally accepted in English. Cheers!

[parsaur]

Hello, these videos are great. They're helping me learn a lot about the language. On page 2 of the exercises, it asks me to translate "The parents are in Berlin with the children." It answers with "Die Eltern sind mit den Kindern in Berlin.", which is "The parents are with the children in Berlin." Is the answer they give the proper way to structure the sentence in German, or does it not matter? I translated it as "Die Eltern sind in Berlin mit den Kindern." Thanks for any clarification.

[DeutschOnlineLernen]

Thank you very much for your question.

Although German and English sentences sometimes have a similar structure, the word order patterns of the two languages follow very different rules.

„Die Eltern sind mit den Kindern in Berlin.

The structure of this sentence from the video is very common and natural, whereas the word order of „Die Eltern sind in Berlin mit den Kindern. would be less usual.

Best wishes

[tvr390se]

@DeutschOnlineLernen

I know this hasn't been taught yet, but perhaps you could tell me why this is a change of word order?

Ich habe jezt keine zeit. (I have no time now)

Weil habe Ich jezt keine zeit. (Because I have no time now)

Why does adding "weil" change the rule for the order of "habe" and "Ich"?

[thekleeblaettchen]

@tvr390se it's 'weil ich jetzt keine zeit habe'.

'weil' is a subjunction and changes the sentence to a subordinate clause. and subordinate clauses don't have the same order as main clauses.. i could tell you, how, but i don't know, if you'd understand that xD (and btw. - i have no idea how to translate that^^)

oh, it's difficult to explain that..

BUT thumbs up for everyone who is learning german!!

[AxjionAlesandres]

@parsaur Upon my studies, my grammar book has said that the ordinary German sentence or clause is arranged

Subject or object -- Verb (verbs always come second) -- Subject or object -- Time -- Manner -- Place

Thus : "The parents (subject) -- are (verb) -- with the children (manner) -- in Berlin (place)" -I hope that helps

[pimapdiendai]

thank you for the lesson..:)

[helioringer]

Any and every language can be difficult to learn. Which is the most or just more difficult to learn above the others is almost entirely dependent upon the person. I was told that Japanese is absolutely one of the hardest languages to learn but I find it quite easy. I studied German and Spanish in high school and found them both extremely easy, Spanish much more so than German. So far, I've found Russian to be the most difficult for me but that doesn't men it is for everyone.

[couxinhas]

try portuguese