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Eric: Welcome to 3-Minute German Season 1, Lesson 21 - Talking about your dislikes. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to say that you don't like something in German.
Body
Eric: Here's the way to say 'I don't like soccer.' in German.
Albert: [Normal] Ich mag Fußball nicht.
Eric: First is a word meaning 'I'
Albert: [Normal] Ich [Slow] Ich
Eric: Next is the word meaning 'to like'
Albert: [Normal] mag [Slow] mag
Eric: Next is the word meaning 'soccer, soccer ball'
Albert: [Normal] Fußball [Slow] Fußball
Eric: Last is the word meaning 'not'
Albert: [Normal] nicht [Slow] nicht
Eric: Listen again to the phrase meaning 'I don't like soccer.'
Albert: [Slow] Ich mag Fußball nicht. [Normal] Ich mag Fußball nicht.
Eric: Ok, now let's take a look at the way to say 'I don't like waiting.'
Albert: [Normal] Ich mag nicht warten.
Eric: First is a word meaning 'I'
Albert: [Normal] Ich [Slow] Ich
Eric: Next is the word meaning 'to like'
Albert: [Normal] mag [Slow] mag
Eric: Next is the word meaning 'not'
Albert: [Normal] nicht [Slow] nicht
Eric: Last is the word meaning 'to wait'
Albert: [Normal] warten [Slow] warten
Eric: Listen again to the phrase meaning 'I don't like waiting.'
Albert: [Slow] Ich mag nicht warten. [Normal] Ich mag nicht warten.
Eric: Next up is the way to say 'I hate this.'
Albert: [Normal] Ich hasse das.
Eric: First is a word meaning 'I'
Albert: [Normal] Ich [Slow] Ich
Eric: Next is the word meaning 'to hate'
Albert: [Normal] hasse [Slow] hasse
Eric: Last is the word meaning 'that'
Albert: [Normal] das [Slow] das
Eric: Listen again to the phrase meaning 'I hate this.'
Albert: [Slow] Ich hasse das. [Normal] Ich hasse das.
Eric: Finally, here is a way to say 'I hate waiting.'
Albert: [Normal] Ich hasse warten.
Eric: First is a word meaning 'I'
Albert: [Normal] Ich [Slow] Ich
Eric: Next is the word meaning 'to hate'
Albert: [Normal] hasse [Slow] hasse
Eric: Last is the word meaning 'to wait'
Albert: [Normal] warten [Slow] warten
Eric: Listen again to the phrase meaning 'I hate waiting.'
Albert: [Slow] Ich hasse warten. [Normal] Ich hasse warten.
Cultural Insight
Eric: Now it's time for a quick cultural insight.
Albert: In German, there are a couple of verbs that change stem for all singular forms. This concerns mostly German modal verbs, which are the equivalents of can, may, must and the like, but also the verb mögen meaning “to like”, which you have seen in this lesson. mögen uses the stem mag- for all singular forms - ich mag, du magst, and er mag – which is NOT er magt, as there’s no -t! For plural it reverts back to mögen as a stem, so you get wir mögen, ihr mögt, and sie mögen.

Outro

Eric: And that’s all for this lesson. Don’t forget to check out the lesson notes, and we’ll see you in the next lesson!

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