Chapter 10: Daily Life

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10.22 Vocabulary: Leisure activities

Chapter 10: Daily Life
Here is a list of words and phrases connected with general hobbies
Overview
and leisure activities. Note again that there are two ways of saying
10.1 Der Alltag:
Mareike Herda
what your favourite hobby is. You can either:
10.2 Der Alltag:
Anna Müller use "am liebsten" followed by the verb OR
10.3 Der Alltag: say "mein Lieblingshobby ist" followed by a verbal noun or the noun
Jens Hoffmann describing the activity
10.4 Der Alltag: the translation of "my favourite leisure activity" shows you just how
Lars Weber
long German compound nouns came be - "meine
10.5 Conversation:
Das Wetter Lieblingsfreizeitsbeschäftigung"!
10.6 Vocabulary:
The Weather Vocabulary 16: Leisure - Verbs
10.7 Seasons and the
compass Sein Lieblingshobby ist Angeln
10.8 Reflexive verbs (1) Am liebsten angelt er
10.9 Reflexive verbs (2) His favourite hobby is fishing.
10.10 Reflexive verbs Mein Lieblingssport ist Eishockey
and the dative case
Am liebsten spiele ich Eishockey
10.11 Verbs: "-el-",
"-er-" and irregular My favourite sport is ice hockey.
10.12 Compound verbs Lieblings-
10.13 Modal verbs:
"dürfen" & "müssen" favourite
10.14 Adverbs and word was machen Sie gern in Ihrer Freizeit?
order
10.15 Adverbs of time what do you like doing in your spare time?
10.16 Adverbs of Haben Sie Hobbys?
manner and place
10.17 Adverbs: Do you have any hobbies?
The Superlative Am Abend liest Kai gern
10.18 Prepositions:
Motion and place Kai likes reading in the evening
10.19 Vocabulary: Ich spiele gern Fußball, Karten usw.
Clothes (1)
10.20 Vocabulary: I like playing football, cards etc.
Clothes (2)
sich interessieren für (+ Accusative)
10.21 TV and Radio in
Germany to be interested in (see Chapter 10.8)
10.22 Vocabulary:
wir interessieren uns für Musik
Leisure activities
10.23 Sport in we're interested in music
Germany (1)
10.24 Sport in er interessiert sich für Lesen
Germany (2) he's interested in reading
10.25 Vocabulary:
Sports wofür interessierst du dich?
Exercises wofür interessieren Sie sich?
Beginners' German what are you interested in?
Index
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Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
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Vocabulary 17: Hobbys
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 Verb Tables English German
Vocabulary List art die Kunst
Grammar Lectures bar die Bar (-s)
German Dialects
bird-watching die Vogelkunde
German Football
book das Buch (pl. - Bücher)
German Letter-writing
Why learn German?
to go bowling kegeln
E-mail the author - bowling alley die Kegelbahn (-en)
Portsmouth University der Fotoapparat (-e)
camera
Portsmouth University die Kamera (-s)
School of Languages and to play cards Karten spielen
Area Studies
Study German at to play chess Schach spielen
Portsmouth to cook kochen
German Extension
Course to dance tanzen
Search this site - to go dancing - tanzen gehen
Search this site or the web
die Diskothek (-en)
disco
die Disko (-s)

Find! Site Map DIY das Do it yourself

to draw zeichnen
Site search
Web search to do
schneidern
Powered by FreeFind dressmaking
embroidery die Stickerei
to be fun Spaß machen
gardening die Gartenarbeit
- to do
- gärtnern
gardening
to go out ausgehen (sep.)
wandern
to hike; to
(For "-ern" verbs, see
ramble
Chapter 10.11)
hobby das Hobby (-s)
interest das Interesse
jigsaw das Puzzlespiel (-e)
to knit stricken
to laze about faulenzen
leisure die Freizeit
die Freizeitsbeschäftigung
leisure activity
(-en)
das Freizeitzentrum
leisure centre
(pl. -zentren)
literature die Literatur
to do the lottery Lotto spielen
model-making der Modellbau
- basteln
- to make
(For "-eln" verbs, see
models
Chapter 10.11)
music die Musik
to listen to
Musik hören
music
to go bowling kegeln
novel der Roman (-e)
to paint malen
- painting (as
- die Malerei
hobby)
 photography die Fotografie
- to take
- fotografieren
photographs
die Kneipe (-n)
pub
das Lokal (-e)
radio das Radio
to listen to the
Radio hören
radio
to read lesen (irreg.)
to sew nähen
to sing singen
spare time die Freizeit
stamp die Briefmarke (-n)
- Briefmarken sammeln
- to collect
(For "-eln" verbs, see
stamps
Chapter 10.11)
to watch
fernsehen (sep.)
television
theatre das Theater (-)
- to go to the
- ins Theater gehen
theatre
to travel reisen
to go on a trip einen Ausflug machen
to go for a walk spazieren gehen
das Jugendzentrum
youth club
(pl. -zentren)
der Zoo (-s)
zoo
der Tiergarten (pl. -gärten)

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