New guide to German conversation, by L. Pylodet |
Common terms and phrases
accent adjectives ADVERBS Alabaster alike become begin best better bitter book chen cold compound Conditional dative declension declined definite do you drink Duodez Elise Polko English favor First Future flower form French friends ge)worden gehen geht geliebt genitive German give Gold good great groß halten Hand hard hast Haus heart Herr hour house hundred Imperfect INFINITIVE iſt just in time kind know land language Laß Lassen learn Leopold Schefer letter lieben little long look loved machen make Masculine MOOD muß neuter nominative nouns novel o'clock Ocean one's Past Participle Perfect play pleasure Pluperfect plural Present PRONOUNS right same Second Future ſein Sellerie singular sound speak syllable take tell thank Thee thing think thou three thun time to-day Uriel Acosta used VERBS viel vowel warm weather weiß Wilhelm Hauff wirst wish words write year your
Popular passages
Page 37 - The Days of the Week : Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Page 158 - Should you like to take a turn in the garden? Willingly. I am very fond of gardens. The trees have done blowing. There is a great show of plums this year. The plums begin to set.
Page 104 - What are you doing ? What do you ask for ? Whom do you ask for ? What is that good for ? What is the use of that ? What do you want of me ? What does that mean ? What is the matter ? Are you sure of that ? Inquire about that...
Page 30 - Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, Ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.
Page 9 - Had we a bottle ? Had you any gold ? Had they any silver ? Had I any iron ? Hadst thou any steel? Had he any copper ? Had we any brass ? Had you any lead, ? Had they any pewter? Shall I have any paper? Shalt thou have pens ? Will your friend have his penknife ? Avremo noi de...
Page 27 - Eins zwei drei, Alt ist nicht neu, Neu ist nicht alt, Warm ist nicht kalt, Kalt ist nicht warm, Reich ist nicht arm.
Page 13 - Was I ungrateful ? Wast thou not ashamed? He was not ill. We were not wet. Were you astonished? Were they not worthy? Shall I be illustrious? Shalt thou not be obstinate?
Page 192 - Is there room for my luggage upon the coach? 1 have a trunk, two portmanteaus and a hatbox. We wish to go to X to remain there some hours and then to return. We wish to go by X to Z. If you go fast, you shall have a good fee. Put to immediately. Do not keep me waiting. Come with your carriage tomorrow morning at six o'clock. Stop, coachman! We wish to get out. Drive faster, coachman! We do not get on. Do not drive so near to that precipice, — to the river. sitzigen Wagen mit zwei Pferden bezahlen?...
Page 192 - Can we have three single bed-rooms here to-night, one bed in each room? We do not like a passageroom. A double-bedded room will not suit us. We can make a parlour of one of our bed-rooms.