Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Lesson 3: How to say 'hello' and 'good bye'.

The proper German word for 'hello' is
'Hallo!'
but 'Hi' or 'Hey' are also used frequently

If you want to greet someone in a more polite way you say:
'Guten Tag.'
which means 'good day', you can also change 'Tag' to 'Morgen'(morning) or 'Abend'(evening).

Guten Tag can also be used to say goodbye, but there are also other ways:

Tschüss! (bye)
Bis bald/dann! (roughly: See you soon/later)
Auf Wiedersehen. (means roughly: let's see each other again)

Another way, which ist especially used in southern Germany and Austria is
'Grüß Gott.'
Which literally means'Salute God' and has the meaning of 'god bye' as well as 'hello'

36 comments:

  1. Thank god the german language looks like Dutch.

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  2. Grüß Gott verwende ich als süddeutscher zwar nicht als verabschiedung, ansonsten aber alles super. Und tolle Idee für ein Blog!

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  3. Next Time I Try and Take Over The World I Will Use This

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  4. I'm Dutch but I can't speak german. It's like chinese for me.

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  5. I was in New York last september right during a German festival. There was a lot of beer allright

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  6. COOL STUFF IM GOING TO FOLLOW YOU! check out my blog and follow me as well!

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  7. Grüß Gott als Verabschiedung wäre mir jetzt neu.
    Vielleicht kann ich ja einen Beitrag zu diesem Blog leisten. Wünsch dir viel glück dabei und

    ... "Grüß Gott" :D

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  9. I learn german in school :P but very good idea :D

    followed :)

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  10. I am loving this blog haha. Tschüss!

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  11. This is great, can't wait to try it out.

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  12. I'm loving this. I just got Rosetta Stone for my bday, and am torn between Spanish, Greek or German. I'm thinking German!

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  13. I must say I visited germany last year to see some friends... They taught me one word to say and it ryhmes with Kotze.... :D

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  14. I was always interested in taking German in high school, but I figured the half credit wasn't worth it. I'll take a crack at trying to learn German... Right after french :P.

    Auf Wiedersehen

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  15. Wow. I might actually learn somethig from this blog! Very cool!

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  16. Yeah, don't use 'Gruess Gott' In the north of Germany we don't consider bavaria as Germany :P

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  17. Gotta start with the basics after all.

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  18. You can teach me the words, now I just need to learn how to pronounce all the letters.

    Good Blog! Bis dann learnin' German, bis dann.

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  19. i actually already know "guten tag" thanks to a friend of mine that is really interested in german

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  20. I love your blog man, its like Kindergarden when you teach, everythings all relaced in ur posts...

    <3 your style!

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  21. Awesome, I love learning languages, even if it's just a few words

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  22. Nice. I'll surprise my german uncles this weekend :D

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  23. Interesting. Thanks for this post man :)

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  24. Now I could remember the German from school times, thanks.

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  25. I've been wanting to learn German for quite a while now, so I'll be keeping up with this. Thanks for the resource :D

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  26. I keep learning more german thanks to you. :D

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  27. I forgot everything i learned at school with german, these basics take me back.

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