A2 · 40 Wörter
Free time and sport
What people do at the weekend — and the club membership that organises a surprising amount of it.
A great deal of German leisure runs through der Verein, the registered club. Football, choirs, allotments, chess, fire brigades and carnival societies are all Vereine, with members, dues and an annual general meeting. Asking somebody bist du im Verein? is an ordinary question, not an odd one. Grammatically this list is where gern earns its keep. German has no verb "to like doing"; it puts gern beside the verb instead: ich schwimme gern. The comparative lieber then gives you "I would rather", and am liebsten "most of all".
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Verb (20)
gewinnento winVerbA2
gewinnen – gewann – gewonnen.
trainierento trainVerbB1
No ge- in the participle, because of -ieren.
schwimmento swimVerbA1
schwimmen – schwamm – geschwommen, usually with "sein".
wandernto hike, to go walkingVerbA2
Takes "sein" in the perfect.
spazieren gehento go for a walkVerbA2
Two words, and "gehen" is the part that conjugates.
radfahrento cycleVerbA2
Separable and written as one word in the infinitive: Rad fahren is also correct.
joggento jogVerbA2
singento singVerbA2
singen – sang – gesungen.
tanzento danceVerbA2
The stem ends in -z, so the du form is "tanzt".
fernsehento watch televisionVerbA2
Separable: ich sehe fern, ferngesehen.
malento paintVerbA2
"zeichnen" is to draw with a pencil.
fotografierento photographVerbA2
No ge- in the participle.
kochento cookVerbA1
backento bakeVerbA2
Both weak and strong forms exist: backte or buk.
sammelnto collectVerbB1
Loses the -e- in the ich form: ich sammle.
sich treffento meet upVerbA1
Reflexive when two people meet each other.
ausgehento go outVerbA2
Separable, with "sein". Also means to run out of something.
einladento inviteVerbA2
Separable and strong: du lädst ein, eingeladen.
sich langweilento be boredVerbB1
Reflexive. "langweilig" is the adjective, boring.
Spaß machento be funVerbA2
The thing makes fun; the person is in the dative: es macht mir Spaß.
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