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Coffee Break: Lesson 02
Coffee Break: Lesson 02
Lesson 02
Study Notes
INTRODUCTION
Thomas and Mark began the lesson with a short conversation which
used some of the phrases covered in the last lesson:
heute
today
When Thomas asks Mark wie geht’s dir heute? he is asking, “how
are you today?”
Thomas said, mir geht’s auch gut, meaning “I’m also feeling well”.
If you wanted to say “I’m also feeling bad” you could say mir geht’s
auch schlecht.
anfangen
to start, to begin
lass uns...
let us...
REVIEW CONVERSATION
To help consolidate the words and phrases covered in the previous
lesson, Mark and Thomas begin with a conversation. The
conversation contains a few new elements of vocabulary. Study the
conversation below and review the accompanying vocabulary.
guten Tag
good day / good afternoon
Guten Tag literally means “good day”, but it’s generally used for the
time between Morgen and Abend (“evening” - see below).
guten Abend
good evening
gute Nacht
good night
You will notice that guten Morgen, guten Tag, and guten Abend
all use the word guten to mean “good”, but gute Nacht has a
different form of the word for “good”. This is explained further by
Kirsten, our Grammar Guru.
GRAMMAR GURU
You will recognise wie from the question wie geht’s? It literally
means “how”, so the question wie heißen Sie literally means “how
are you called?” Note also the ß in the word heißen. This was
explained in the bonus vocabulary section of lesson 1.
To answer the question wie heißen Sie, you can used the following
expression:
Note that since Name is a noun (just like Morgen, Abend, Nacht,
etc.) it begins with a capital letter.
CULTURAL CORRESPONDENT
We will see further examples of the word bis in the bonus vocabulary
section.
CORE VOCABULARY
lass uns anfangen
let’s get started, let’s begin
heute
today
guten Morgen
good morning
guten Tag
good day; good afternoon
gute Nacht
good night
BONUS VOCABULARY
einen schönen Abend
(have) a nice evening
bis später
until later / see you later
bis bald
see you soon
Note that schlaf gut is the informal version which you would use to
a family member, for example.