Coffee Break German. Lesson 12. Study Notes. Coffee Break German: Lesson 12 - Notes page 1 of 16

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1 Coffee Break German Lesson 12 Study Notes Coffee Break German: Lesson 12 - Notes page 1 of 16

2 LESSON NOTES ICH NEHME EINEN KLEINEN SALAT It s time to order some food in this lesson. You ll learn the words for common snacks you can find on most street stalls in Germanspeaking countries, and you ll also learn more about the indefinite article in the accusative case. INTRODUCTION The opening section of this lesson included a new expression: Thomas: Sollen wir anfangen? Mark: Ja, los geht s! sollen wir anfangen? should we begin? The expression sollen wir... can be used with any infinitive to mean should we...? REVIEW In the last lesson we learned how to say I would like... : ich möchte... I would like... Coffee Break German: Lesson 12 - Notes page 2 of 16

3 Using this same verb (mögen) we can say: was möchten Sie? what would you like? (formal) was möchtest du? what would you like? (informal) An alternative to ich möchte... is: ich nehme... I ll take... Nehme comes from the verb nehmen which we have already seen in the phrase nehmen Sie die zweite Straße links. It means to take, so ich nehme literally means I take. It could also be translated as I ll have when ordering food or drinks. Thomas challenged Mark to some translations: ich nehme ein Glas Weißwein, bitte I ll have a glass of white wine, please ich nehme eine Flasche Wasser ohne Kohlensäure, bitte I ll have a bottle of still water, please ich nehme einen Milchkaffee I ll have a white coffee In this final example note the word einen. This is the accusative form of the masculine indefinite article. Our Grammar Guru explained more. Coffee Break German: Lesson 12 - Notes page 3 of 16

4 GRAMMAR GURU We re back to those pesky cases again, the accusative case to be more precise. If you remember, we said before that one of the reasons we use the accusative case is when the noun is the object of a sentence. This is the situation here. When we use expressions like ich nehme... and ich möchte... any noun which comes after them is the object of the sentence, which means we have to put it in the accusative case. As you ll remember, that causes the article of the noun to change. We ve already learned the changes which occur in the definite articles: we had to change the masculine nominative article der to den, but the feminine and neuter articles stayed the same, as you can see in the table below. MASCULINE FEMININE NEUTER NOMINATIVE der die das ACCUSATIVE den die das The same thing happens with the indefinite articles - that s the word us grammar geeks like to use for a or an. We learned these in a previous lesson. Have a look at the table below, and you ll notice that a similar change happens with the masculine indefinite article in the accusative: Coffee Break German: Lesson 12 - Notes page 4 of 16

5 MASCULINE FEMININE NEUTER NOMINATIVE ein eine ein ACCUSATIVE einen eine ein Just like we had with the definite articles, the feminine and neuter forms don t change in the accusative case. That s why we could say ich nehme eine Flasche Wasser or ich möchte ein Glas Weißwein without changing the articles. Just to be clear, Flasche is feminine, so it s die Flasche for the bottle and eine Flasche for a glass. Glas is neuter, so it s das Glas for the glass and ein Glas for a glass. However, with a masculine word the indefinite article does change: it changes from ein to einen. You ll recognise that -en ending from the changes which happen to the definite article: der > den. So when you re asking for a Milchkaffee then you have to say ich nehme einen Milchkaffee. The same applies to other masculine nouns such as der Tee ( tea ) and der Saft ( juice ): ich nehme einen Tee I ll have a tea ich nehme einen Saft I ll have a juice. Remember these are the indefinite articles, the words for a or an, so whether it s a coffee in Kaffee Sacher in Vienna, a bottle of water to keep yourself hydrated on your walking tour of Berlin, or a beer at Munich s Oktoberfest you re ordering, at least you ll be able to order your drink with perfect German grammar! Coffee Break German: Lesson 12 - Notes page 5 of 16

6 ASKING FOR ANOTHER (DRINK) If you would like to ask for another glass of water, or another white coffee, you use the word noch: noch ein Glas Wasser another glass of water noch einen Milchkaffee another white coffee Did you notice in the second example that einen is in the accusative? This is because the phrase is a shortened for of (ich nehme) noch einen Milchkaffee so the thing you are ordering remains in the accusative case. This is similar to the expression we previously learned as a piece of vocabulary: einen schönen Tag noch have a nice day The word Tag is masculine, and you ll notice the accusative case of the indefinite article, einen. This phrase is a shortened form of ich wünsche dir noch einen schönen Tag or ich wünsche dir einen schönen Tag noch meaning I wish you a continued nice day, with noch conveying the meaning of still or what remains of the day. In these examples we don t mention the subject or the verb (ich nehme... or ich wünsche dir...) but the objects are still objects so they need to be in the accusative case. Coffee Break German: Lesson 12 - Notes page 6 of 16

7 ORDERING SNACKS In addition to the question was möchten Sie? you may also hear: was möchten Sie trinken? what would you like to drink? was möchten Sie essen? what would you like to eat? Equally you may come across the expressions: zum Essen to eat zum Trinken to drink In these examples you ll have noticed the capital letters for the words Essen and Trinken. Here these words are actually nouns. Don t worry about this just now! We ll explain more about this, and indeed about the word zum in a future lesson. As Thomas explained, Germany-speaking countries are famous for their sausages! eine/die Wurst sausage There are many different types of sausage available. Perhaps the most common ones are: Coffee Break German: Lesson 12 - Notes page 7 of 16

8 eine/die Currywurst sausage with ketchup and curry powder eine/die Bratwurst grilled sausage eine/die Bockwurst large Frankfurter sausage Alongside your Wurst you may enjoy: eine Portion Pommes a portion of fries / chips ein/der Salat salad Note that der Salat is masculine so if you want to order a salad, you would say: ich möchte einen Salat I would like a salad The word for small, as you know, is klein but in the accusative case this changes: ich möchte einen kleinen Salat I would like a small salad The same happens with groß, meaning big. ich möchte einen großen Salat I would like a large salad Coffee Break German: Lesson 12 - Notes page 8 of 16

9 ein/das Sandwich sandwich...mit Käse with cheese...mit Schinken with ham...mit Hühnchen with chicken...mit Pute with turkey der Döner doner kebab ich möchte einen Döner I would like a doner kebab ein Stück Pizza a slice of pizza The word Stück is versatile: it can also mean a piece as in a piece of cake : ein Stück Kuchen a piece of cake ein Stück Apfelkuchen a piece of apple cake Coffee Break German: Lesson 12 - Notes page 9 of 16

10 ein Stück Apfelstrudel a piece of apple strudel ein Stück Käsekuchen a piece of cheese cake ein/das Stück a piece / slice ein/das Eis ice cream CULTURAL CORRESPONDENT In this lesson s Cultural Correspondent feature, Julia talks about different types of food commonly eaten in German-speaking places. Mark, Thomas, hallo ihr beiden! Wie geht s euch heute? Mir geht s gut, und ich bin sehr froh, hier zu sein, as your Cultural Correspondent, noch einmal. You ve been learning about ordering food and snacks and I thought this would be a great opportunity to talk about the different types of food that we eat here in Germany, in Austria and in Switzerland. One thing I ve noticed when I ve been in the UK is that lots of people tend to have crisps - potato chips - as a snack, but this is not something we have here. In fact you only really buy crisps if you re having a party: it s not really a day thing at all. We do eat a lot of food on the go while we re walking about. It s very normal to walk around with a Bratwurst and a bread roll with mustard or ketchup, or something from the bakery you find at every corner, maybe a sandwich or a cake. I know my French friends Coffee Break German: Lesson 12 - Notes page 10 of 16

11 are always horrified that we don t sit down and enjoy our food enough. But I guess that s just indicative of how busy people are these days. Thomas has already mentioned the Döner and I thought it would be interesting to talk a little more about this. It s one of the most popular snacks in German, Austrian and Swiss towns, and it might be a bit different from what you know as a doner kebab. Here the Döner consists of grilled flat bread with not only meat and sauce but also salad, including onions, tomato, lettuce, cucumber and cabbage. There s also the vegetarian option with falafel if you prefer. If you do get the chance to travel to a German-speaking country I hope you enjoy whatever snacks you choose to try on the go. If you prefer there are some wonderful dishes you can try in a nice sitdown restaurant, but that s for another cultural correspondent segment. All this talk of food is making me hungry - jetzt habe ich Hunger! So I m off to find that typical Berlin snack, Currywurst mit Pommes natürlich! Guten Appetit euch allen! Bis bald. hallo ihr beiden hello both of you jetzt habe ich Hunger now I m hungry ich habe Hunger I am hungry Literally ich habe Hunger means I have hunger, but it is one way to say I am hungry. Coffee Break German: Lesson 12 - Notes page 11 of 16

12 Guten Appetit euch allen good appetite all of you Guten Appetit is one German way of saying enjoy your meal, or the German equivalent of the French expression bon appétit. DAS REICHT FÜR HEUTE Ready for more? Turn the page to continue with the bonus materials for this lesson. Coffee Break German: Lesson 12 - Notes page 12 of 16

13 CORE VOCABULARY ich möchte... I would like... was möchten Sie? what would you like? (formal) was möchtest du? what would you like? (informal) ich nehme... I ll take... was möchten Sie trinken? what would you like to drink? was möchten Sie essen? what would you like to eat? zum Essen to eat zum Trinken to drink eine/die Wurst sausage eine/die Currywurst sausage with ketchup and curry powder Coffee Break German: Lesson 12 - Notes page 13 of 16

14 eine/die Bratwurst grilled sausage eine/die Bockwurst large Frankfurter sausage eine Portion Pommes a portion of fries / chips ein/der Salat salad ich möchte einen Salat I would like a salad ich möchte einen kleinen Salat I would like a small salad ich möchte einen großen Salat I would like a large salad ein/das Sandwich sandwich...mit Käse with cheese...mit Schinken with ham...mit Hühnchen with chicken Coffee Break German: Lesson 12 - Notes page 14 of 16

15 ...mit Pute with turkey der Döner doner kebab ich möchte einen Döner I would like a doner kebab ein Stück Pizza a slice of pizza ein Stück Kuchen a piece of cake ein Stück Apfelkuchen a piece of apple cake ein Stück Apfelstrudel a piece of apple strudel ein Stück Käsekuchen a piece of cheese cake ein/das Stück a piece / slice ein/das Eis ice cream BONUS VOCABULARY das Frühstück Coffee Break German: Lesson 12 - Notes page 15 of 16

16 breakfast das Mittagessen lunch das Abendessen dinner ich bin hungrig I am hungry (an alternative to ich habe Hunger) kann mann hier etwas essen? is it possible to eat here? der Speck bacon die Salami salami, pepperoni die Peperoni chili pepper der Thunfisch tuna Coffee Break German: Lesson 12 - Notes page 16 of 16