German Nouns

Welcome to the third German lesson about nouns. This time we will first learn about fruits and vegetables, followed by grammar rules, then food items, finally a conversation in German to help you practice your daily phrases.

potatoes Kartoffeln

tomatoes Tomaten

onions Zwiebeln

carrots Karotten

fruits Obst

apples Äpfel

bananas Bananen

oranges Orangen

Nouns Grammar Rules

In general nouns refer to a person, an object, or abstract ideas. For example: a fast runner the noun is [runner] because it refers to a person. The examples below use nouns in different ways and places to demonstrate how they behave in a sentence.

Grammar + Rules - German
do you have milk? [verb + noun] Haben Sie Milch?
I have milk and coffee [preposition + noun] Ich habe Milch und Kaffee
he has three apples [number + plural noun] Er hat drei Äpfel
she only has one apple [number + singular noun] Sie hat nur einen Apfel
we live in a small house [adjective + noun] Wir wohnen in einem kleinen Haus
I like our breakfast [pronoun + noun] Ich mag unser Frühstück

The following are nouns of food items that you might be interested in learning and memorizing.

bread Brot

milk Milch

butter Butter

cheese Käse

coffee Kaffee

sandwich Sandwich

meat Fleisch

chicken Huhn

fish Fisch

breakfast Frühstück

lunch Mittagessen

dinner Abendessen

Conversation in German

Now we finally reach the fun part, the practice of the daily conversations. These phrases are used to get to know new people, and break the ice.

English - German
Do you speak (English/ German)? Sprechen Sie (Englisch / Deutsch)?
Just a little Ein wenig
I like German Ich mag Deutsch
Can I practice with you? Kann ich mit Ihnen üben?
How old are you? Wie alt sind Sie?
I'm thirty three years old Ich bin dreiundreißig Jahre alt.
It was nice talking to you War nett mit Ihnen zu plaudern.

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