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‘Zu’ or ‘um ... zu’? - How to use the infinitive form of the verb | The Coffee Break German Show 1.08

Coffee Break German

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🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the new episode of The Coffee Break German Show! Today Mark and Thomas discuss how to use the infinitive form of verbs in 'zu' and 'um ... zu' constructions. By the end of this episode you will be confident in using the infinitive form of verbs in sentences in German!


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0:00.0

He's like a common to Coffee Brick German.

0:02.4

Welcome back to the Coffee Break German show.

0:04.4

I'm in Mark.

0:05.4

I'm here Thomas.

0:06.4

We get the Thomas?

0:08.0

Sergo, thank you in Mark.

0:09.4

We get it here?

0:10.4

Good, thank you, so what's my mind we've he heard.

0:12.4

Am, we're read it over infinite sets, in infinitive clauses or sentences.

0:18.0

Okay, so there are different ways in which we can use the infinitive.

0:22.0

Yes, they are all very very useful.

0:24.0

Okay. But there's kind of one solution in English and three in German. So we talk about the three different scenarios in German.

0:32.3

House gets cited. So in these weekly episodes from... different scenarios in German. How's good side to it.

0:33.4

So in these weekly episodes from Coffee Break German, we're helping you take your German skills

0:37.2

further one coffee break at a time.

0:39.8

If you're listening to this as a podcast, please remember to subscribe to the channel and if you're

0:45.0

watching us on YouTube as a video please also like the video subscribe to the

0:49.4

channel. Fantastic so, so loose kids? Well I say, fun we are Fantastic. So Thomas, you said we're talking about these

1:06.1

infinitive clauses. Can you tell us a little more about this

1:10.0

infinitive idea? Yes, for example we use it a lot because we say we are here to

1:16.0

improve our German so in English we would use to improve as the infinitive in a

1:22.2

sentence.

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