When you have finished this lesson you can

• Distinguish directional terms

• Understand and use the ordinal numbers 1 - 30

• Ask about distance

Remember: If you need to ask for someone or something, say:

When you ask someone in the street by road, it's always polite to start with “Entschuldigung”:

If you want to know if it's far away, ask:

The four main directions in German are:

! Note: The verb “gehen” (go) is regular conjugated like “kommen”, participle II: gegangen.

! Note: The verb “fahren” (go by a vehicle) is regular conjugated with a change in the 2./3. person sing.:     du fähr-st

        er/siw/es fähr-t

When you conjugate separable verbs, the prefix is separated. It stands at the last position in the sentence.

Ich biege an der Kreuzung nach links ab.

German is quite hard! :)

The opposite of “umfahren” (running something over) is ...

…. “umfahren” (drive around something).

But the difference is that the first is a separable verb, the second not.

Ich fahre den Poller um. - I drive the bollard over.

              Ich umfahre den Poller. - I drive around the bollard

When giving instructions or commands, use the verb's imperative form.

In German, there are three imperative forms:

• informal for a single person (“du”),

• for a group of persons (“ihr”) and
  
  
• the courtesy form (“Sie”) for a single person as well as for a group of persons.

fahren bis zu … + dative                       [go (by a vehicle) to …]

abbiegen an … + dative                       [turn at …]

Geht über … + accusative                   [go over …]

Gehen Sie durch … + accusative        [go through …(formal) ]

Biegt nach … ab!            [ Turn to … ]

Attention! There is another meaning of “nach” = “after”:

Of course, the instruction could also be the opposite: “vor” = “before”

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Ordinal numbers are used when referring to a definite entity or in ordered list, just like the English ordinal numbers, “first”, “second”, “third” and so on. In German, they are written as the normal number with a point: 1., 2., 3. ...

The ordinal numbers up to 19 are formed with the basic number + “te”

Exceptions: 1, 3, 7 and 8

Ordinal numbers change like demonstrative pronouns depending on gender, number and case of the noun.

Examples:    Fahr bis zu dem ersten Platz (m)!    (dative)   

Bieg an der zweiten Kreuzung (f) rechts ab!    (dative)   

Geht über den dritten Zebrastreifen (m)!    (accusative)

Remember: The ordinal numbers up to 19 are formed with the basic number + “te”

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