After-work drinks: Talking about your weekend

💬 When a time phrase starts the sentence, the verb still comes second, so ich moves after it: Am Samstag war ich, not Am Samstag ich war.

💬 For past events, German usually uses haben plus a form like gekauft, placed at the end. kaufen becomes gekauft, and machen becomes gemacht.

💬 frisch takes -es because Brot is a das word and there's no article before it. With die words it becomes frische Milch "fresh milk".

💬 Starting with Am Sonntag puts habe second and ich after it, while gekocht goes to the end. Swap the day or the activity: Am Freitag habe ich gelesen "On Friday I read".

🇩🇪 Adults use lecker freely, even with colleagues. It's the everyday word for tasty food, not childish.

💬 German joins nouns into one word, and the last part decides the gender: Gemüse + Suppe gives die Gemüsesuppe, so it's eine.

💬 mal softens the sentence into a friendly suggestion rather than an order. Du musst mitkommen without it would sound much more insistent.

💬 gerne also works after verbs to say you like doing something: Ich wandere gerne "I like hiking".

💬 los does the job of the verb "go" here; with muss, no gehen is needed. The same pattern gives Wir müssen los "We have to go".

💬 bis plus a time makes a goodbye: Bis Montag! "See you Monday!", Bis später! "See you later!".

🇩🇪 Tschüss is the everyday goodbye among colleagues and friends. In very formal settings people say Auf Wiedersehen "Goodbye" instead.

💬 It's short for Ich wünsche Ihnen einen schönen Abend, which is why schön ends in -en. Same pattern: Schönes Wochenende! "Have a nice weekend!"