German Feelings & Emotions: Wütend, Enttäuscht & Begeistert 😡🤩
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Just think back to your school days. Oh yes. To the person you were back then. The hairstyle, the music, all the dreams.
Mhm. How much of that is really left today? That's a fundamental question. Am I still the person I once was? Or has the present made me into someone completely new?
And precisely for this question, the German language gives us a truly fascinating tool. Okay, your sources today are a mix of vocabulary, a short story, and a few everyday examples that illustrate how two very simple linguistic structures precisely capture this change, this
difference between past and present. So our task today is to find out how language not only describes exactly what was, but also how one has become the person one is today. In other words, the language of personal development.
so to speak. Yes, that describes it quite well. Okay, then let's see how exactly that works.
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📖 Vocabulary
Key vocabulary from this episode with part of speech, meaning, and example sentences. Practice along with the video above.
| Word | Type | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| die Schulzeit | Nomen (f.) | school days, school time | Meine Schulzeit war sehr schön. |
| der Traum | Nomen (m.) | dream | Ich hatte einen schönen Traum letzte Nacht. |
| übrig sein | Verb | to be left over | Wie viel Kuchen ist noch übrig? |
| der Wandel | Nomen (m.) | change, transformation | Der Wandel ist ein Teil des Lebens. |
| das Zeugnis | Nomen (n.) | report card | Am Ende des Jahres bekommen wir ein Zeugnis. |
| das Nachsitzen | Nomen (n.) | detention | Er musste Nachsitzen, weil er zu spät kam. |
| spicken | Verb | to cheat (in an exam) | Man darf bei einer Prüfung nicht spicken. |
| durchfallen | Verb (trennbar) | to fail (an exam) | Ich hoffe, ich falle nicht durch die Prüfung. |
| gewohnt sein | Verb + Adjektiv | to be used to | Ich bin den Lärm in der Stadt gewohnt. |
| der Unterschied | Nomen (m.) | difference | Es gibt einen großen Unterschied zwischen den beiden. |
✏️ Exercises
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Denk doch mal zurück an deine ___.
Was bedeutet 'eine Eins' im deutschen Notensystem?
Früher ___ ich klein. (sein, Präteritum)
Ich bin es ___, früh aufzustehen.
Was ist die Bedeutung von 'spicken'?
Eine sechs bedeutet, du bist ___.
Welche Aussage beschreibt einen abgeschlossenen Zustand in der Vergangenheit?
Der ___ zwischen Vergangenheit und Gegenwart ist wichtig.
Was kann 'gewohnt sein' bedeuten?
Wie viel davon ist denn heute wirklich noch ___?
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