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TYPE 3 The letters ‘er’ are added to form the plural. An Umlaut may also be needed. TYPE 4 Bild - picture Bilder - pictures Ei - egg Eier - eggs Buch - book Bücher - books Mann - man Männer - men The letters ‘n’ or ‘en’ are added to form the plural. TYPE 5 Name - name Namen - names Katze - cat Katzen - cats Antwort - answer Antworten - answers Woche - week Wochen - weeks The letter ‘s’ is added to form the plural. Job - job Jobs - jobs Auto - car Autos - cars Hotel - hotel Hotels - hotels Park - park Parks - parks • abbreviations are used to show parts of speech e.g. n noun m masculine f feminine nt neuter v verb adj adjective Make sure that you know where the list of abbreviations is in your dictionary, and what they mean. Practise looking up words and working your way through the entry for them. You need to be able to use your dictionary quickly and confidently if you are to get the best out of it. How do I choose the correct word from the ones I’m given? Sometimes you look up a word and find that several different translations are given. This can be a problem – if you choose the wrong one, you won’t be saying what you intended. For example • You look up ‘lounge’ in your dictionary. The words you find are Bummel, Wohnzimmer, Gesellschaftsraum You might find that all you needed was a reminder – perhaps Wohnzimmer looks familiar straightaway and so you pick that. 103
But sometimes none of the words you have to choose from look familiar, so what do you do now? The only thing you can do is look each one up in the German-English part of the dictionary, and see which fits the meaning you had in mind. For the example we are using, you would find something like Bummel means ‘stroll’ Wohnzimmer means ‘sitting room’ Gesellschaftsraum means ‘function room’ This shows that the words actually match different meanings of ‘lounge’ in English. Now that you know this you can choose sensibly the word you need. • You look up the word ‘chemist’ in your dictionary. The words you find are Chemiker (-in), Apotheker (-in), Apotheke, Drogerie By looking up these words in the German-English part of the dictionary, you find which fits the meaning you had in mind. Apotheker is the person who dispenses medicine. • You look up the word ‘cream’ in your dictionary. The words you find are Sahne, Rahm, Creme By looking up these words in the German-English part of the dictionary, you find which fits the meaning you had in mind. All three can mean a cream which you eat, but Creme can also be a cream you put on your skin. • You look up the word ‘garage’ in your dictionary. The words you find are Tankstelle, Garage, Werkstatt By looking up these words in the German-English part of the dictionary, you find which fits the meaning you had in mind. All three can be translated as ‘garage’, but only one, Tankstelle, is the place where you buy petrol. Will I do best if I look up every word? No! A dictionary can help you, but it’s only as good as the person using it. If you don’t know how German works and how it fits together, the dictionary can’t do it for you. There really is no substitute for learning vocabulary and grammar. Looking up every word can lead you into writing gibberish. This is because people often communicate their thoughts by groups of words. For example, if you looked up every word to translate ‘I want to leave school’ in German, you could come out with Ich fehle zu lassen Schule. These are German words, one for each English word, but as a group they wouldn’t mean anything to a German-speaker. So think about how German communicates ideas, and keep well away from word-for-word translation. 104
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A Student’s Guide to the AQA GCSE
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Welcome to your help-yourself guide
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VOCABULARY All the vocabulary liste
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GENERAL NOTIONS 1 Existential (a) E
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(h) Dimensions breit wide dick fat,
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(h) Rapidity X Kilometer pro X Kilo
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6 Relations (a) Logical aber but al
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THEME/MODULE 1 MY WORLD 1A Self, Fa
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die Karte(-n) card die Kassette(-n)
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die Zentralheizung central heating
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das Gleis(-e) platform die Halteste
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das Salz salt die Schokolade(-n) ch
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die Karotte(-n) carrot die Kartoffe
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der Keks(-e) biscuit das Kleid(-er)
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das Image(-s) image rauchen to smok
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2B Tourism das Abenteuer adventure
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die Karriere(-n) career launisch mo
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Vocabulary in the Specification - A
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estätigen to confirm, endorse die
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die Engländerin(-nen) English woma
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die Gepäckaufbe- left luggage Grie
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Irland Ireland der Keks(-e) biscuit
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manchmal sometimes mitnehmen to tak
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der Parkplatz(“e) parking place,
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