Monday, February 14, 2011

Lesson 2: How to say 'What is your name?' in German

In Germany there are three common ways to ask for someone's name.

Wie heißt du?
This literally means 'How are you called?', the appropriate response is:

Ich heiße ______ (name).

Also, you can say:
Wie ist dein Name?
This is word by word 'What is your name?'. The answer to this question is:

Mein Name ist ______(name).

Another way to ask for someone's name is:
Wer bist du?
It actually means 'Who are you?' and in the answer to this question you can put some additional info about yourself, eg. your job:

Mein Name  _____ (name), ich bin _____ (job, etc.).

In the most cases, you can use any of these answers to respond to all of these questions, so you can talk more diversified.

27 comments:

  1. Maybe I learn something with your blog, for introducing i've liked this post

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  2. Oh i want to learn german. Good blog

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  3. Danke für Ihre Blog !
    Following.

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  4. Nice post, now I know at least something in German. Keep up with the good work!

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  5. I learned german in school, but i forgot almost everything. Useful blog.

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  6. Mein Name ist Baka.

    haha, folling mate

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  7. i think i need to work on my pronunciation. i use to study German a long time ago.

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  8. Gutten tag, nice blog. Useful stuff.

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  9. Bananagreetings
    Coole Seite;)

    Das Pronunciationvideo ist gut !!

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  10. Ich spreche Deutsch
    I speak German

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  11. Nice post. Could be cool to learn some german, so i'm definetely following you!

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  12. hah very cool i will use these words

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  13. Ich heisse...nah, i'm not gonna tell you my real name xD
    Followed

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  14. Nice, thanks for the knowledge. Danke!

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  15. im tring to learn a german on my ipod at the moment so your blog is a great help ;)

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  16. I'll have to remember this for my German speaking friends at the University. Thanks!

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  17. mein name ist kartoffel, ich bin brei

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  18. so cool, lol but they dont speak german near me...

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  19. thanks for your comments on my blog. you'll be glad to know that i have a new set of crappy headphones to wear ;)

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  20. lol i love that banner you have at the top. Interesting wish i could hear how its pronounced

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  21. nice blog, always good to learn a new language

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  22. Thanks for the info. It's nice to learn something new everyday.

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  23. Took 3 years of german in highschool, can only call people "scheizkopf" and even that isnt pronounced very well. this will help!

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  24. Wunderbare Übung und einer der besten Schritte die man machen kann um eine fremde Sprache zu lernen. Sich vorzustellen ist wichtig und das A und O, welches jeder Neuling lernen sollte.

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