Comments on: Absolute Beginner #10 - It’s Never Been So Easy to Say Goodbye to New Friends…to All of Them…in German!!

by: salivia_baker

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:20:33 +0000

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.

by: Kristina

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:33:34 +0000

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

by: Roylene

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 07:37:04 +0000

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

by: Judith

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:25:33 +0000

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.

by: Tony

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:59:50 +0000

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!

by: Walter

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:43:12 +0000

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

by: Salivia Baker

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 20:41:19 +0000

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

by: William

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 20:06:36 +0000

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

by: salivia_baker

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:27:33 +0000

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

by: Judith

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:55:26 +0000

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.

by: salivia_baker

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:55:59 +0000

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.”

by: GermanPod101.com

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:30:00 +0000

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