CBG 2.18 | Wie alt warst du, als du ein Handy gekauft hast?
Coffee Break German
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🗓️ 16 October 2017
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
This episode of Coffee Break German introduces the verbs sein and haben and how they are used in the past. In fact, these verbs use a different tense, the Präteritum, or "imperfect" as it is often referred to in English. You'll learn to conjugate the imperfect of sein and haben and how to use it in a variety of situations.
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| 0:00.0 | Coffee Break German, season 2, episode 18. |
| 0:05.0 | Hello and Heilge, come in to Rick too, Coffee Break German, I'm |
| 0:14.0 | and I'm been Andrea. |
| 0:15.0 | And who gets there, Andrea? |
| 0:17.0 | Ah, Mark, I've been heard a total good droughts. |
| 0:21.0 | You best good droughts? Yeah, it's good, yeah, yeah, in a very good mood. That is a completely new expression for me so that we've |
| 0:29.2 | learned something immediately as we start this episode. So how do you spell that? |
| 0:33.2 | Good, yeah, G-U-T and then three of D-R-A-U-F. It's very colloquial. |
| 0:42.2 | Okay, so is it, is there also a word d'Auf? |
| 0:46.0 | Yes, which means on top of it. |
| 0:49.2 | Okay, but this is a kind of shortened version of that? |
| 0:52.1 | I think so, yes. Okay, so you can just say, I've been good droughts. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah, now. I've been good, and I have a phrase. |
| 1:00.0 | What is you good droughts? |
| 1:02.0 | Ah, I've been good droughts, |
| 1:04.0 | while I see good geefrewstuck t'er. |
| 1:07.0 | Ah, one of her lovely excuses from or reasons from last episode. |
| 1:13.0 | But you're very good gefrusht dukt habe. |
| 1:17.0 | Or it has, yeah, super. |
| 1:19.0 | Because you had a very good breakfast. |
| 1:22.0 | So what has you get frustic? |
| 1:24.0 | I have a high sociologist, |
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