Presenting your work at the office: Explaining results from a chart

💬 der Umsatz turns into den Umsatz when it's the thing being shown, counted or seen. Only masculine words like this change. die Linie stays the same.

💬 Umsatz means money taken in, not profit. Profit is der Gewinn, and mixing them up in a meeting changes your story.

💬 im is short for in dem and is used with all months: im Januar, im Mai. Seasons follow the same pattern, as in im Sommer.

💬 stark usually means "strong", but with numbers it means "sharply". stark gestiegen means "risen sharply" and stark gefallen means "fallen sharply".

💬 sie here means "it", because it stands for die Linie. German picks er, sie or es to match the noun's gender.

💬 Aktion is a false friend. In business it means a sales promotion or special offer, not an "action".

💬 When a sentence starts with a time like Im März, the verb comes second and the person moves after it: hatten wir, not wir hatten.

💬 This is a casual shortening of ich verstehe, with ich dropped. It's common in speech but not in writing.

💬 das points at things even when they're plural, and the verb follows the plural: Das sind die Kosten, not Das ist. die Kosten is always plural in German.

🇩🇪 From a German manager, this is genuine praise. Workplace feedback tends to be understated, so don't expect more enthusiasm than this.

💬 German uses the present tense for near-future promises, so no "will" is needed. Another example is Ich rufe Sie an "I'll call you".

🇩🇪 Prima is friendly and a little old-fashioned. It's fine with colleagues but slightly too casual for a formal client meeting.