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1: Einheit 1- Schön, dich kennenzulernen!

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    At the end of Einheit 1, you will be able to…

    • introduce yourself and others
    • greet and say good-bye
    • address people appropriately using Sie, du oder ihr
    • spell using the German alphabet
    • use numbers from 1-1000
    • describe geographical locations
    • describe objects using colours
    • speak about the weather
    • give polite instructions or make requests
    • ask for, understand, and express basic information about yourself

    You will also have learned about the following structures:

    • personal pronouns
    • conjugation of verbs in present tense
    • questions using was, wie, woher
    • Sie“-imperative
    • grammatical gender of nouns and pronouns (masculine, feminine, neuter)


    This page titled 1: Einheit 1- Schön, dich kennenzulernen! is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Claudia Kost & Crystal Sawatzky (Open Education Alberta) via source content that was edited to the style and standards of the LibreTexts platform; a detailed edit history is available upon request.

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