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Название: Unlocking German with Paul Noble: Your key to language success with the bestselling language coach
Автор: Paul Noble
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(ikh kan)
And “I can camp”?
Ich kann campen.
(ikh kan camp-urn)
And so how would you say “I can camp today”?
Ich kann heute campen.
(ikh kan hoy-ter camp-urn)
And how about “I can come today”?
Ich kann heute kommen.
(ikh kan hoy-ter kom-urn)
So the word order is a little different than it is in English. In German, the thing that you can do – whether it’s to camp, to come, or whatever – likes to go at the end.
Let’s try some more examples to make this even clearer.
“Here” in German is:
hier
(hear)
Now again, how would you say “I can camp”?
Ich kann campen.
(ikh kan camp-urn)
So, how do you think you would say “I can camp here”?
Ich kann hier campen.
(ikh kan hear camp-urn)
So, literally, this is “I can here camp”. Therefore once again the thing you’re going to be doing (camping in this case) goes at the end.
Now, what is “park” / “to park” in German?
parken
(park-urn)
So how would you say “I can park”?
Ich kann parken.
(ikh kan park-urn)
What about “I can park here”?
Ich kann hier parken.
(ikh kan hear park-urn)
“You can” in German is:
du kannst2
(doo kanst)
So how would you say “you can park here”?
Du kannst hier parken.
(doo kanst hear park-urn)
How about “you can camp here”?
Du kannst hier campen.
(doo kanst hear kamp-urn)
And what about “you can camp today”?
Du kannst heute campen.
(doo kanst hoy-ter kamp-urn)
“Tonight” in German is literally “today night”, which is:
heute Nacht
(hoy-ter nahkht)
So how would you say “you can camp tonight”?
Du kannst heute Nacht campen.
(doo kanst hoy-ter nahkht kamp-urn)
So we now know that “you can” is “du kannst”. If we want to turn this into a question, we simply reverse the word order just like we do in English, turning “you can” into “can you”. Do that now and say “can you?”
Kannst du?
(kanst doo)
So how would you say “can you camp?”
Kannst du campen?
(kanst doo kamp-urn)
How about “can you camp tonight?”
Kannst du heute Nacht campen?
(kanst doo hoy-ter nahkht kamp-urn)
What is “come”?
kommen
(kom-urn)
So, how would you say “can you come tonight?”
Kannst du heute Nacht kommen?
(kanst doo hoy-ter nahkht kom-urn)
“To come over” in German is, more or less, “to come by” (or more literally “to by come”), which is:
vorbeikommen
(for-by-kom-urn)
So, how would you say “can you come over?” / “can you come by?”
Kannst du vorbeikommen?
(kanst doo for-by-kom-urn)
How about “can you come over today?“
Kannst du heute vorbeikommen?
(kanst doo hoy-ter for-by-kom-urn)
Finally, how would you say “can you come over tonight?”
Kannst du heute Nacht vorbeikommen?
(kanst doo hoy-ter nahkht for-by-kom-urn)
So, you can now construct the sentence that we started the chapter with – and, as you will soon discover, this is only the very beginning of your journey into German!
Building Blocks
You have just learnt how to say (amongst other things) “can you come over tonight?” Having done this, we are now going to move on to expand what you can say through the use of additional “building blocks”.
The new building blocks you are going to learn will allow you to begin instantly expanding your range of expression СКАЧАТЬ