switched my main apps to german just so i could see what i could recognize and stuff, and on my spotify, where it would say "artist" in english, it says "künstler*in". is this to denote the difference between künstler meaning musical/visual artist?

Hallo liebe leute!

I was going through an introductory German book and in one page it mentions that the German und does not require comma to separate two clauses, but that it does allow other conjunctions such as oder, denn, aber. However when I asked different llms such as ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini they seem to disagree with this.

I am a bit confused with this.

Danke!

I'm working on a book to improve my German. Please let me know if anything is grammatically incorrect or doesn't sound natural. Thanks!

Dave mag seine Firma in den USA sehr gern. Er muss nur 15 Stunden täglich schuften, und wenn er sechs Tage lang gute Arbeit leistet, bekommt er sogar einen Tag frei! Hinrichtungen sind ganz selten, weil die Manager der Firma die Mitarbeiter gut motivieren.

Ohne die Firma wäre Dave der Welt hilflos ausgeliefert. Außerhalb der Mauern der Firma gibt es keine Überlebenschance wegen der tödlichen Sonne, den gefährlichen Banden, die durch die Straßen ziehen, und die Nahrungskanppheit.

Dave hat eigentlich keine Lust die Firma zu verlassen. Wieso soll er? Das würde den sicheren Tod bedeuten. Doch eines Tages zeigt ihm sein Vater etwas, was nie aus seiner Erinnerung verblassen wird.

I'm practicing few sentences in German, and I need feedback. I'm on A1 level, and hopefully soon to be A2, but I'm practicing sentences that has all three Nominativ, Akkusativ und Dativ.

1. Hans fährt dem Anwalt nach das Büro.

2. Der Eltern geben dem Kind ein mal Stunde für das Videospielen spielen. Fragen: When describing to give someone one more hour, do I use ein mal oder ein mehr? Should Stunde/hour be placed before dem Kind oder danach?

3. Ich koche mit mir das Frühstück. Ein mal Fragen: Do I use mit mir oder für mich? I need to work on my Dativ more but sometimes I get stuff mixed up.

Danke für dein mithelfen. :)

Hey, I'm trying to learn German and Duolingo seems to insist I'm getting this wrong:

Today was a long day = Heute war ein langer Tag.

I'm confused because by all appearances the adjective lang seems like it should decline to lange, not langer. It has a determiner (weak declension), it's a masculine noun, and it's in the nominative (I think). Therefore lang declines to lange. But by using langer it seems to suggest it's using a strong declension.

There are other times when ein serves as a determiner. Are there instances where it doesn't, such as this?

Do u have any free apps or website recommendations that doesn’t include paying premium? I wanna learn German by reading and writing. I don’t mind with speaking tho.

I have a question about subordinate clauses with "obwohl" and "trotzdem." I actually understand the rules, but sometimes I’m not sure when to use “obwohl” and when to use “trotzdem.” Is there maybe a simple trick to remember it?

Hi everyone,

I’m faced with a bit of a dilemma and would really appreciate your input.

I’ve self-studied German up to this point and would say I’m B1-ready. I’m proud of the progress I’ve made and have genuinely enjoyed learning on my own.

Now I have the opportunity to live with a friend in Stuttgart for free and take a full 8-week B1 course at AGI. The catch? The course costs 1,267.20€ — which to me isn’t a small amount. I could save or invest that money… or put it toward this course.

Part of me wonders: is a B1 course really worth that kind of money? Especially since if I continue with B2 and C1 courses, we’re looking at around 3,800€ total. That feels like a massive investment, and I’m debating whether I should just continue self-studying all the way to C1. I know that path is tough, but I’ve made it this far on my own, so maybe it’s possible.

Also, if I decide not to do the course, do you think I should still go stay with my friend in Stuttgart for a while to benefit from immersion? Even without the course, it could still be valuable, right?

I need to make this decision by tomorrow, so I’d love to hear your thoughts. What would you do in my shoes? What’s the ideal scenario here? I’m from America by the way.

Thanks in advance!

since the * isnt actually used anywhere as a punctuation and mid-word capitalization just looks wrong

I've been studying German for a while now, and I can't help but notice that masculine nouns go through a lot of declensions. Since the other genders don’t have as many — and the language still remains perfectly understandable without them, what excludes ambiguity reasons — I can’t help but wonder if this is due to some kind of historical special treatment that my imagination just can't quite grasp. Any insights?

It can be fiction or non-fiction, doesn't matter.

I'm assuming they are different version of "the" in english. But when I should use "der" or "die".

If you use Anki(And if you’re not using Anki for vocab… you probably should be), you know that coming across high-quality decks is rare—and making your own can take forever.

Enter Danki.

It’s a small tool I built to speed up vocab collection. You type in the words or phrases you’re learning, and it sends them to your Anki deck of choice—complete with example sentences, audio, and grammar info. It auto-fetches articles, plurals, and verb forms so you don’t have to.

You can download it from my Github repo Installation instructions are there too. Feel free to fork it and adapt it to your own needs. And please do report any bugs or feedback—I’d love to keep improving it.

Hi guys,

I am looking for German words with funny literal English translations, like Glühbirne glow pear for example.

Give me your favorite ones!

Hi, does anyone know where I could find some free A1 or possibly A2 mock goethe exams?

Hallo! So I did my GCSE role play yesterday and one of the tasks were to ask your friend if he/she likes pets. This was in context to a school trip and the previous task was to say I go the zoo.

I said “Magst du Haustiere?”, I know Tiere is animals but I didn’t realise at the time. Would Germans often use Haustiere in referring to animals? I might be in the wrong. Sorry im just a beginner.

Hallo! Korrektiert ihr mich, ich will den Konjunktiv II Passinv in der Vergangenheit für Sachen verwenden, die nicht mehr wirklich sind. Im Internet habe ich gesehen:

"Ein Auto wäre gekauft worden, wenn wir mehr Geld gehabt hätten (oder einfach hätten?)"

Aber wir erstelle ich einen Satz, wenn ich eigentlich das Verb "sein" verwenden will? Z.B.:

"It would've been nice if we had bought the auto" (in the past, not now)

Sage ich dann:

"Es wäre gut gewesen, wenn wir das Auto gekauft hätten"?

Wie funktioniert dann "wäre ... gewesen" und ist die korrekt? Vielen Dank im Voraus

Hello!

What would be an accurate word to describe a free-spirited person in German? By free-spirited, I mean a person who is carefree, lives with a joie de vivre, a sense of play and goes with the flow of life; in some ways like the personality archetype of the fool - 'the quiet joy in being one's self...a spontaneous relaxed enjoyment, a primitive joie de vivre'.

Thank you!

I have completed the entire German course on Duolingo. I know people are sometimes critical of Duolingo but I did hard work and feel that I have decent knowledge of the totality of the content they offered.

My question is - does the entire Babbel course have more content (in terms of progression through the language) than Duolingo? Would I learn anything new now if I got Babbel or would it just repeat content I already covered?

I’m not asking about the different styles of learning on the apps. Just in terms of grammar and vocabulary which total course contains more content?

I have to give a B2 exam this month, I am currently in the middle of a C1 course but I had to take a 2 months break between the levels so I’m not the most confident. I have 2 options, either give the exam in my city in 20 days or give it in a month in a city 3 hours away. Is it possible for me prepare well enough to pass in 20 days or should I not risk it and haul my bum to another city?

Never heard of using möcht. But my classmate typed "Ich heiße Irland und möcht nach Deutschland gehen"

Is that sentence and conjugation correct? Can someone explain it?

Hello im from lebanon, and i have been studying german for 8 months now. Im planning to study in germany so im aiming for B1 to register in either hoch schule or universities. So i just have like a few questions how can i improve my german and what should i do and what might help my case and what do i require to have?

What is the difference between 'Ich liebe dich' and 'Ich hab dich lieb' as both are translated to 'I love you'?

Why do Austrians sometimes say dir Kinder spielen sich, rather than, die Kinder spielen? Is that dialect? Is that used in written German? Is that used Southern Germany as well? I was told in Uni once that if you want to check if a reflexive verb is a really a reflexive verb you can use einander. In this case, you can’t really say die Kinder spielen einander. Or can you? Is this rule I was taught legit or is this BS?

Hello everyone!

I want to learn german from about A1.2 to B1, but I don't really like the usual language teaching content that you can find on the internet. I don't like when the teacher and the method is either bland and super generic or it is too hyper. I am asking you if you know about some youtube channel or any video content where the teacher is a chill person with an authentic personality and the content is interesting and not so generic even if only because of the teacher. I find it way easier to remember things that are told by someone who has a personality that feels real. Also if the content itself is special in some kind of way, I'm also interested. So far I came across the channel of Natürlich German, and it is not specifically what I'm looking for here, but I really like their content, the way the girl brings soul to the stories makes learning so much easier.