Lesson 2: At the Store

Lesson 2: Auf dem Markt

A Customer Shopping at the Grocery Store.

Guten Tag! Ich möchte Obst und Gemüse kaufen. Mein Kühlschrank is fast leer. Was können Sie mir heute empfehlen? - Good morning! I would like to buy some fruit and vegetables. My refrigerator is almost empty. What can you recommend today?


Äpfel* und Trauben sind heute ganz frisch. Auch Mais, Tomaten und Karotten. Sie sind alle billig auch. Sondern, Südfrüchte sind teuer weil es Winter ist. - Apples and grapes are very fresh today. Also corn, tomatoes and carrots. They are all cheap as well. On the other hand (but) citrus is expensive since it is wintertime.



Ja, natürlich. Ich kaufe Südfrüchte hauptsächlich nur im Sommer und im Herbst.
Wieviel kosten Äpfel und Tomaten? - Yes, of course. I buy citrus mainly only in the Summer or Fall. How much are the apples and tomatoes?


Äpfel kosten zwanzig Shilling für 5 und Tomaten sechszehn Shilling für 3 Stück. - Apples are twenty Shillings for 5 and tomatoes are sixteen for 3.


Gut. Ich nehme zehn Äpfel und drei Tomaten. Good. I'll take ten apples and three tomatoes.



Das wäre sechsundfünfzig Shilling. - That will be 56 Shilling.



Danke! Auf Wiedersehen! Thank you! Goodbye!



Danke schön! Haben Sie einen guten Tag! Wiedersehen! - Thank you very much. Have a good day! Goodbye!


*Äpfel is an example of an irregularly formed plural. Also note that in contrast to English where only formal nouns are capitalized, in German all nouns are capitalized.

Lesson 1: Greetings

Lesson 1: Begrüßungen

How people address each other when they meet on the street. These are common ways that people address each other, although there are others that we will touch on in later lessons.

Guten Tag - Good Morning (Good Day)

Wie geht es Ihnen? - How are you?*

Es geht mir sehr gut! Und Ihnen? - Very good! And you?

Sehr gut auch. Danke! - Very good too. Thanks!

Auf Wiedersehen! - Goodbye!

Tschuß! - See you later! (Goodbye!)

Although I present no formal grammar in the lessons in an effort to present things in a more natural way as you would learn your own language, should you need to refer to a grammar matter you can at: http://german-language-reference.blogspot.com/

*This is the formal version that you would use with someone that you don't know. For people you know, you would say 'Wie geht's?' More on that later.