Hallo und Auf Wiedersehen (und zwischen)

Only two weeks late for this one...


German music for this post: Turbostaat

Here is a one-sided beginning of a conversation:

Hallo, guten Tag!

Ich heiße Tyler, wie heißen Sie?

Nett Sie kennenzulernen.

Woher kommen Sie aus?

Ich komme aus Michigan, und meine Frau kommt aus Illinois, und wir wohnen im Virginia. Was machen Sie für beruflich?

Ich arbeite mit ein Laster Gesellschaft in der Buchhaltung, aber ich möchte fahre ein Laster.

Haben Sie eine Kinder?

Ich habe kein Kinder, haben Sie eine Geschwister?

Ich habe ein bruder, und zwei schwestern.

Blah blah blah German German German Blah

Tchüs!

Auf Wiedersehen!

A normal greeting in the German language is, "Guten Tag!" (Good day).

One thing that may not be natural at first is the necessity to conjugate "heißen." However, heißen isn't "name" like you may think, but it is actually a verb, "to be called." So you have to conjugate it according to the subject, like the table we had in the last post. But if you would say something like, "Mein Name ist Tyler," then Name (nahmuh)=name.  So, "Mein Vorname ist Tyler und mein Nachname ist Yoder." Vorname= first name (vor=before/in front)(nach=after).

An important point to make here is the difference between Sie and du. When conjugating verbs, when you use Sie you use the -en ending (the infinitiv), but when you use du, you use the -st ending. Both of these words mean "you," however.  Sie is more formal, du is informal.  So if you were talking to a business colleague that you don't know super well, you would use Sie, but if you were talking to your lover, or your business colleague's young child, you would use du.  So, in the second sentence above, "Nett Sie kennenzulernen" (Nice to meet you) would be talking in a formal setting (so when you are meeting a new business colleague, or you were networking or whatnot). If you were talking to a child, though, you would use the "du" form of you, and it would turn into this- "Nett dich kennenzulernen." I'm not sure yet why du takes the "dich" form sometimes, (like "Ich liebe dich" or I love you), but it does.  I just looked it up a little bit, going back to Tom's Deutschseite, there is a declension of personal pronouns.  The reason is because pronouns are in the flektiebar (flectional) word group, meaning they change with cases and gender (there are also inflectional words, meaning they don't change, God bless inflectional words).  Other types of words in this word group include - Nouns, Verbs, Articles, Adjectives. Katja has a good little thing going on Youtube, and she might help you out in learning about these word groups.

Here is a list of the pronouns for the different Fälle.

Nominitiv pronouns (the initial subject):

Ich - I
du - informal you
Sie - formal you
er/sie - he/she (or male gender noun/female gender noun)
es - it (neutral gender)
Sie - formal y'all
ihr - informal y'all
wir - we
sie - they

Genetiv pronouns (possesive-like):

mein - my
dein - your (informal)
sein/ihr - his/her
sein - its (neutral gender)
unser - our
euer - your (formal)
ihr - their
Ihr - your (formal)

Dativ pronouns (indirect objects):

mir - me
dir - you (informal)
ihm/ihr - him/her
ihm - it (neuter)
uns - us
euch - you (formal)
ihnen - them
Ihnen - you (formal)

Akkusativ pronouns (direct objects):

mich - me
dich - you (informal)
ihn/sie - he/she
es - it (neuter)
uns - us
euch - you (formal)
sie - them
Sie - you (formal)

So, some examples of these different cases and pronouns,
Ich liebe dich - I love you.  Ich - infinitiv because I am the subject.  dich - akkusativ because you are the direct object.  That's really all I have for now on that.

Anyway, I think that is all for now.  My motivation isn't super high, mainly because there are other really important things going on in my life, and I can only study in the parking lot of Panera or in Panera since we don't have internet at home.

Again, any corrections or help, I would much appreciate.  Also, anyone interested in speaking German with me, let me know.