Learn German - Lesson 13

Hello and welcome to German 1. Lesson 13 gives an introduction to the s-declension, which is one of the three singular declensions of the German noun. Thank you for watching.

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German 1

Lesson 1: "sein" - present tense. The personal pronouns
Lesson 2: The grammatical gender
Lesson 3: The grammatical number
Lesson 4: The grammatical case
Lesson 5: The definite article - forms
Lesson 6: The definite article - nominative and genitive
Lesson 7: The definite article - dative and accusative
Lesson 8: "haben" - present tense
Lesson 9: The conjugation system
Lesson 10: The verb - present tense endings
Lesson 11: The verb - irregular present tense
Lesson 12: The singular noun - n-declension
Lesson 13: The singular noun - s-declension (1)
Lesson 14: The singular noun - s-declension (2)
Lesson 15: The singular noun - s-declension (3)
Lesson 16: The singular noun - zero declension
Lesson 17: The plural noun - declension
Lesson 18: The indefinite article - forms
Lesson 19: The indefinite article - nominative and genitive
Lesson 20: The indefinite article - dative and accusative
Lesson 21: The preposition - contractions

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[shotstopper91]

I have a question.

Why is it " schoen warm " and not " schoen und warm "?

Anyway, I find your videos very helpful. Keep up the good work.

[DeutschOnlineLernen]

Thank you very much for your question.

"schön" can be an adjective such as "nice, beautiful", or an adverb such as "nicely, beautifully".

1. Der Schnee ist schön.

Here "schön" is an adjective because it is linked to the noun "Schnee".

2. Das Wasser ist schön warm.

Here "schön" is an adverb as it modifies the adjective "warm".

[DeutschOnlineLernen]

English prefers the hendiadys "nice and warm" consisting of two independent adjectives, rather than using "nicely warm", while in German we have the adverb-adjective combination "schön warm" to express the same idea.

I hope this helps.

[DanetLix]

omg thanks! these vids have helped me a lot!!

[ghali274623]

thank you for ever

[LadyPyrien]

Thank you guys, so much, for putting this and the website up. Both have helped me learn quite a bit of this gorgeous language! I absolutely love the German language!

[Stordongen]

What a beautiful language. Honestly.

[YohannesF16]

These lessons are really great, Thank you so much , I am sure that you helped lot of ppl .

[YohannesF16]

I am not German but i am lerning Deutsch, anyway wanna say that ,it's better to compare schön Plus an adjective as in schön glatt , schön warm etc to the English modifier and adject combination as in , pretty good , pretty tired ,pretty cold etc...

[Jumsurr]

I am German and in my opinion the translation at 0:35 is not correct. "Das Eis ist schön glatt." is not "The ice is nice and smooth." but rather "The ice is nicely smooth.". This is because "schön" acts as an adverb here and refers to "glatt", not to "das Eis".

[wolverine143]

I'm from germany and I can tell that nobody would say: Das eis ist schön glatt.

Maybe: Das Eis ist sehr glatt(The Ice is very slippy)

[tvr390se]

@DeutschOnlineLernen

Could "nett warm" replace "schön warm" equally well here?

Also, an unrelated question. Have Germans largely given up on linguistic formality with strangers? One of these lessens starts with "Was machst Du?" but I've never seen it explained that "Was machen Sie?" means the exact same thing if you ask that to a person. Of course "Was machen Sie?" can also mean "they".