Learn how to ask about possessions
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| Hallo, ich heiße Laura. Hi everybody! I’m Laura. |
| Welcome to GermanPod101.com’s “Deutsch in 3 Minuten”. The fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn German. |
| In today’s lesson we are going to learn how to talk about things you own by using the verb haben, “to have.” |
| Hast du ein Auto? “Do you have a car?” |
| [slowly] Hast du ein Auto? |
| Let’s take a closer look at this question. |
| Hast du, means “Do you have”. You can see that haben has been conjugated to Hast because the subject is “du”. |
| Ein Auto, means “a car” |
| So if you *do* have a car, how can you answer this question? |
| Just turn the verb haben into the 1st person—Ich habe ,”I have” |
| So in this case, we go from |
| Hast du ein Auto? to |
| Ich habe ein Auto. “I have a car.” |
| [slowly] Ich habe ein Auto |
| Say for example that a classmate wants to borrow a pen from you. He might ask, Hast du einen Stift? Which is “Do you have a pen?” |
| If you only have a red pen, you can answer Ich habe einen roten Stift. “I have a red pen.” |
| Okay, so now let’s look at the FORMAL way to ask someone if he or she has something. |
| Instead of Hast du, you’ll start with “Haben Sie”, to mean “do you have”. For example... |
| Haben Sie ein Auto? “Do you have a car?” |
| [slowly] Haben Sie ein Auto? |
| Now it’s time for Laura’s tips. |
| If you want to sound really natural when asking if someone has something, you can use the word oder. Here’s an example. |
| Du hast einen Hund, oder? This literally means “You have a dog, or?” |
| You just add the little word oder after the sentence. It makes the whole sentence sound like a question. |
| In recent lessons, we have learned about the verbs sein, to be, and haben, to have. |
| Next time we’ll learn how to use these two verbs in their negative forms in order to say “I’m not” and “I don’t have”. |
| Did you know that to turn a verb into the negative form in German, you just have to add some little word? |
| I'll be waiting for you in the next Deutsch in 3 Minuten lesson. |
| Bis bald! |
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