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Tuerkisch fuer Anfaenger (TV show) (Advanced): Family dinner part1 S02E01
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Key Phrases
Du meckerst gar nicht bist du krank?
You're not complaining at all, are you sick?
Ich hab lamm gekocht!
I cooked lamb!
Du weißt wie lieb ich dich hab und genau deswegen muss ich das jetzt tun.
You know how much I love you and that's exactly why I have to do this now.
Skills You'll Learn
Constructing sentences with negations and questions
Konstruieren von Sätzen mit Verneinungen und Fragen
Expressing personal actions and declarations
Ausdrücken persönlicher Handlungen und Erklärungen
Communicating emotions and reasonings
Kommunizieren von Emotionen und Begründungen
Lesson Vocabulary & Phrases
Curry
KUR-ee
Curry
Mit Lamm
mit lahm
With lamb
💬 After [mit], the next article changes: compare [das Lamm] but [mit dem Lamm]. You hear this pattern all the time with [mit]: [mit dem Auto], [mit der Freundin].
See breakdown →Curry mit Lamm.
KUR-ee mit lahm
Curry with lamb.
Du meckerst gar nicht
doo MEK-erst gar nicht
You are not complaining at all
💬 [gar nicht] strengthens the negation: not just 'not', but 'not at all'. Same idea in [Ich verstehe gar nichts] = 'I don't understand anything at all'.
See breakdown →Bist du krank?
bist doo krank
Are you sick?
Du meckerst gar nicht bist du krank?
doo MEH-kerst gar niht bist doo krank
You're not complaining at all, are you sick?
💬 German often just puts two questions/statements next to each other in speech without a linking word. Here it's basically: [Du meckerst gar nicht.] [Bist du krank?]
See breakdown →Sieht aber nicht aus
zeet AH-ber nicht ows
But it does not look
💬 [aussehen] is a separable verb, so the [aus] moves to the end: [Es sieht nicht aus]. Same pattern: [Ich sehe müde aus].
See breakdown →Wie Lamm!
vee lahm
Like lamb!
Sieht aber nicht aus wie Lamm!
zeet AH-ber nicht ows vee lahm
But it doesn't look like lamb!
💬 To say something 'looks like' something, German uses [aussehen wie]: [Es sieht aus wie Lamm]. Swap in another noun: [Es sieht aus wie Gold].
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