{"id":4933,"date":"2016-06-15T11:26:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T15:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=4933"},"modified":"2020-02-05T13:18:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T18:18:15","slug":"german-words-everyone-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2016\/06\/15\/german-words-everyone-should-know\/","title":{"rendered":"German words everyone should know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blog assignment for this semester is to write about 10 german words that we think are important. The first two that I want to mention are more sayings then just a word.&nbsp;<strong>Kurz und pr\u00e4gnant&nbsp;<\/strong>is the german way of saying what in dutch is kort en krachtig and would translate to dutch as short and simple. I also learned how to say &#8216;it depends&#8217; today, namely&nbsp;<strong>es h\u00e4ngt ervon ab<\/strong>. Another word I learned this week is&nbsp;<strong>der Insektenschutz<\/strong> which is the german word for bug repelant which might be handy if you hate bugs as much as I do.&nbsp;<strong>Der Feierabend<\/strong> does not have a translation to any language that I know. It means the time after the workday is over.&nbsp;<strong>Nutzlich<\/strong> means necesary, so I feel that the word was necesary to add to this list.<\/p>\n<p>Other usefull german words are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rechtzeitig<\/strong>, which no one actually seems to be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Der Pass<\/strong>, which we should remeber not to forget when traveling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beraten<\/strong><em>,&nbsp;<\/em>to advise<\/p>\n<p><strong>Faulenzen&nbsp;<\/strong>which translates to luilakke &nbsp;in dutch<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitmachen&nbsp;<\/strong>to take part in something<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Beraten:<\/p>\n<p>Pr\u00e4sens: ich berate, du ber\u00e4test, er\/sie\/es ber\u00e4t, wir beraten, ihr beratet, Sie beraten<\/p>\n<p>Perfekt: ich habe beraten, du hast beraten, er\/sie\/es hat beraten, wir haben beraten, ihr habt beraten, Sie haben beraten.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mitmachen:<\/p>\n<p>Pr\u00e4sens: ich mache mit, du machst mit, er\/sie\/es macht mit, wir machen mit, ihr macht mit, Sie machen mit.<\/p>\n<p>Perfekt: ich habe mitgemacht, du hast mitgemacht, er\/sie\/es hat mitgemacht, wir haben mitgemacht, ihr habt mitgemacht, Sie haben mitgemacht.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blog assignment for this semester is to write about 10 german words that we think are important. The first two that I want to mention are more sayings then just a word.&nbsp;Kurz und pr\u00e4gnant&nbsp;is the german way of saying what in dutch is kort en krachtig and would translate to dutch as short and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19737,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933\/revisions\/19737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}