When you have finished this lesson you can:

• Welcome a guest

• Offer something to drink

• Accept or reject  an offer

• Show your enthusiasm or dislike by using the proper adjectives

• Name the colors

When you welcome a person, say:

It's always polite to say thank you for the invitation:

The imperative of “kommen” is “Komm!” (informal) or “Kommen Sie!” (formal). There are some possibilities to specify this.

Because "Komm!/ Kommt!/Kommen Sie!" is an imperative, it's important to sound politely. Otherwise, it may sound like a command and not as an invitation.

The table shows some of the usual lokal adverbs to express movement.The first word is the "correct", the written German, the second word is more informal, spoken German.

! Remember: The conjugated verb always stands at the second position, the local adverb often follows after the verb.

The table shows some of the usual lokal adverbs to express a location.

Arrange correctly: Click at the speaker-button on the left and drag them to the correct word on the right side.

In German, there are also some prepositions expressing spatial relationships.

! Remember the declension of articles and nouns in the different cases.

Arrange correctly: Click at the preposition on the left and drag them so to the right side that the phrases make sense.

In German, the adjective, which describes a noun, is directly in front of it. This attribute has the same gender, the same case and the same number as the following noun.

In the phrase “Was für ein/e …” you need the adjective in combination with the indefinite article “ein/e” and the following noun in nominative.

Sikke som ord for bejestring:

! Remember: Attributes follow the noun in gender, number and case.

But you can also say something about a thing or person in describing it/he/she and using the adjective as adverb. Then - very simply - the adjective stands in its original form as you can find it in a dictionary.

Arrange correctly: Click at the speaker-button on the left and drag them to the correct word on to the right side.

Arrange correctly: Click at the picture on the left and drag them to the corresponding adjective on to the right side.

Arrange correctly: Click at the speaker-button on the left and drag them to the correct word on to the right side.

In German, the dark and bright shades are expressed with a composite color name:

When you offer a person something, you can say:

! Note: The Person to whom you offer something stands in dative.

Afterwards it's common to explain which beverages (or what ever you've offered) you have.

! Remember the personal pronouns in dative as in the question at the beginning of the first chapter “Wie geht es dir?”: mir, dir, ihm/ihr/ihm; uns, euch, ihnen; Ihnen

You can also ask more precisely:

When you are offered something you can answer as at the café with “ich möchte” oder “ich nehme”. Don’t forget to be polite with “bitte” and “danke”.

You can also say directly what you want:

After a concrete offer you can answer simply:

You can reject an offer by saying:

You can also say why you decline:

Arrange correctly: Click at the button with the pronoun in nominative on the left and drag them to the associated dative on to the right side.