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Learn German with GermanPod101.com! You are in Germany vacationing, having a wonderful time. You have met so many new friends and you hate to go home, but have too. Five friends have agreed to ride the bus with you to the German airport to spend just a few more minutes with you before you hop back on a plane. You have all exchanged phone numbers and have vowed to come back to Germany to visit longer next time. As the bus nears the airport, some of your friends have tears in their eyes. The bus pulls up to the German airport and you wait for the bus doors to open. One of your friends says in German, “Push the button.” You find the button, push it, and the doors swing open. You hear one of your friends call behind you, “Don’t forget to call. Have a safe trip home.” As you turn around to reply in German, “See you soon,” the bus doors swing shut and the bus races off. Saddened by the fact that you didn’t say a proper goodbye, you think about it, and it has never been so easy to say goodbye to all of your friends as it just was…considering you didn’t have to thanks to the German bus!

Learning German with GermanPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn German! This German Absolute Beginner lesson will teach you how to say “goodbye” in German by changing particular German verbs and asking for a phone number or contact number. We will also let you know what to expect when traveling by German bus, including how to pay, how to figure out where you’re going, and how to get on and off that bus! Visit us at GermanPod101 where you will find many more fantastic German lessons and learning materials! Leave us a message while you are there!

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This entry was posted on Monday, March 15th, 2010 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Absolute Beginner Season 1 . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

12 Responses to “Absolute Beginner #10 - It’s Never Been So Easy to Say Goodbye to New Friends…to All of Them…in German!!”

GermanPod101.com says:

Fahrt ihr oft mit dem Bus?
Do you often ride the bus?

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salivia_baker says:

In the dialogue you translate “Ich fahre mit dem Bus” as “I will take the bus”. Shouldn’t it be “I take the bus” or Ich werde mit dem bus fahren” to have the same time? “Ich fahre mit dem Bus” is present tense and “I will take the bus” is future tense.

Same goes with “Da hält mein Bus und da halten auch die Taxis.” => “There my bus will stop and the taxis stop there too.”

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Judith says:

In German, we don’t use the future tense nearly as often. On the other hand, some sentences just sound weird in English (according to Chuck) if they are translated with the present tense.

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salivia_baker says:

mmh.. I see. I thought it would be something like that. Thanks for clearing it up.

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William says:

Is “to him” really “ihn” like it says on the pdf? Shouldnt it be “ihm”. what about “to it”?

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Salivia Baker says:

I think William is right. it should be “ihm”
And “to it” is also “ihm”

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Walter says:

I agree with Salivia and William about the pronouns. I think it is the Dative case so:
er …Ihm
sie…Ihr
es… Ihm

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Tony says:

Hi Judith and Chuck,

I have really enjoyed your series so far. I listen on a Nokia device by the way, there is a nice little app written in Qt for listening to pod casts. It would be even better though if you had an app in the Nokia (”Ovi”) store, especially since Nokia is quite popular here in Europe as well.

One question:

In this lesson you have the phrase “Siehst du den Polizisten?”. I understand that den is the accusative case of der, but then should it not be either “den Polizist” or “die Polizisten? Or is it for some reason that I do not yet understand in the dative case?

Thanks!

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Judith says:

Glad you’re enjoying the lessons. You’re right that this is Accusative. “Polizist” is a noun of the N-Declension, which means it adds -en occasionally. We’re covering that later.

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Roylene says:

You addressed the -en, but not the dative pronoun ihm rather than ihn. Isn’t this correct?

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Kristina says:

Ich habe kein Auto also gehe ich jeden Tag mit dem Bus.

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salivia_baker says:

Hi Kristina,

it should be “Ich habe kein Auto, also fahre ich jeden Tag mit dem Bus.”

You use fahren with bus, car, train, bicycle, motorbike, ship, etc. You only use gehen when you use your own two feet.

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