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So, Wann means

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when. Very good. And I also have an

2:03

example sentence for you. Wann fnet

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das museum.

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So, when does the museum

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open? Perfect. And maybe another

2:13

one, and then we look a little bit at the sentence structure. Wann

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fierst du nach Slovenian.

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So, when are you going to

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Slovenia? Okay, now,

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and if we look at those two sentences, we see we always

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start with Wann, our question word, but

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then we follow it straight up with a verb. So,

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we hear Wann fnet, Woda wann fierst, and then we

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had our subject. So,

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das museum, Woda du. Yeah,

2:39

so we've got the question word, then the

2:41

verb, then the subject in the

2:43

order. Exactly. And

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I think it's great because this is actually a topic

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where it's easier in German than in English because

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in English you have like du or ar,

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you need these extra words. In

2:55

German you don't, you just have question word, verb, subject. Good.

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Okay, so that is Wann.

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What about another question word? Das nicht wie

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wort, wie wer smedt Wass. Okay,

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so Wass is what? Okay, now, tans

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du, kans zu wir ein Sats aus denknein. Ein

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frerge met Wass. Could I say Wass denkst

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du? What do you think? Yeah, siergut

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es bei spiel. And again in English

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we have what do you think. However,

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in German we have just Wass, our question word,

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denkst, our verb, and then du. So

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the equivalent of what, thank you. Kna.

3:28

Okay, right, so that's Wass,

3:30

what? Wir

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is another important one, maybe sometimes

3:35

the cause of confusion. Yeah, so

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wer, W-E-R, it looks

3:39

a little like wir, but of course it means who.

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Kans knaub, zor ais bei spiel, zor bei spiel,

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wir kommt zor party. Who

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is coming to the party. Kna. We're

3:50

starting with who and then the verb is coming. And

3:52

this one's slightly different, it doesn't follow the same pattern

3:55

because we've got to the party, which is slightly

3:57

different type of object there. Exactly. Our

4:00

who is like our subtop. So

4:03

that is yeah. Okay. So

4:05

there is who, but what about

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where? How do you say where? And there's

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actually three words in German, but

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the most straightforward one is woh. Woh.

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So woh lig dikircha. Knao woh lig dikircha.

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Or woh ist tipeger. I was just

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asking where something is located.

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Yeah. Okay. But

4:27

then you said there are other two other words. Yes. The

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other one is woh here. And you've probably heard that in the

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sense of woh here comes to. So

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that means from where? From where comes

4:36

to. So if you're referring to a location

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where something is from and you

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can say where from in English. But

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I think sometimes you also get away in English just

4:45

saying where. Where. Yeah. Okay.

4:49

So that's woh here. And then there's another one. And

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it's kind of the opposite because it's woh in. So where

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are you going to? So woh in fürst

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du? You know woh in fürst du

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in Denfähren. Where are you going to in

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the holidays? So you couldn't use woh there

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like woh fürst du? There's

5:06

a trick because you can also take your

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hin and put it to the end so you can

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say woh fürst du morgen

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hin. It's almost like a separable verb. Yeah.

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So woh fürst du morgen hin. The hin going

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to the end where go use

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tomorrow too. Okay.

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And you could do the same because we talked about with

5:27

woh here. You could also say woh

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comes to here and

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put the here at the very end. Okay. So

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where come you from? Where do you come from? So we've

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done wah, we've done wir. So that's woh and hu. We've done wahn,

5:38

wen. And we've now looked at woh, woh and

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woh here. Sveinoch. Sveinoch.

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Okay. Wie. Wie

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means how. Okay. Now,

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and it's very useful because you can

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combine it with a lot of sentences. So

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wie fiel kost du das you might have heard before. Yeah.

5:58

Okay. Yeah, that's one we can

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see if you get there. Kino! Okay. How

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are you doing? Okay. Oder

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mie Spied ist des? Right, so

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literally how late is it? You're

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asking what the time is. Kino. Oh,

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and on that. Let's just what is varum.

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Right, so varum is why. Kino.

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Varum lernen wir Frageverter.

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Why are we learning question words? A philosophical

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question there for us today. Varum.

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Am I right in thinking that you can also

6:30

use the word viso or why? Yes,

6:32

there's a great variety of German

6:35

words to say why. You have mieshalb,

6:38

varum, viso, and

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the slight differences in

6:42

meaning, but you can always get away with

6:44

varum in the most case they are interchangeable. Okay.

6:47

Would I be right in thinking that viso is sometimes

6:49

used more than the south? Yes, I

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am from the south, and I use it a lot. I've heard.

6:55

I was actually working something on Netflix

6:57

recently. I think it was set in one

7:00

of the ski resorts like Garmisch Patenkeshen

7:02

or something like that. And there

7:05

we were saying viso all the time, and

7:07

I'm like, oh, it must be a southern thing. It must be

7:09

maybe Austrian or... Via, Alpine region. Yeah,

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viso. Okay, viso. How

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come? Almost. Good.

7:16

So going back through all of these

7:18

question words, we've had van, which

7:20

is when, then we had what, kina,

7:23

lass, who, thea, where

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to. Wohin,

7:29

where from? Wohir, I just

7:31

waited a bit so I was like, whoa.

7:33

And then we also had halu. I think we mentioned

7:35

that. Kinao vi ad huai. Varum

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viso. Vishant. Vishant is here.

7:41

Okay. And there was one

7:43

last thing I maybe wanted to talk about, and

7:45

that's just a simple yes or no question.

7:47

Yeah, okay. And the concept is really easy

7:49

here because you basically, all you do is

7:51

you leave away the question words. So if

7:53

you go back to the start when you said like one,

7:56

first, two, next, Slovenian, we

7:58

can just see first two. So

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the structure stays the same, but without the question

8:03

mark. So you're asking then, are

8:05

you going to Slovenia? Yes, no. Yeah.

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Okay, that makes sense. I mean, I

8:11

guess we've heard this many, many times in

8:13

the expression, bist du bereit? Are

8:16

you ready? The question that

8:18

we start almost every episode of Coffee

8:20

Break German with. I think just the intro

8:23

of this is a very good example to

8:25

practice question words. Wie geht's dir?

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Bist du bereit? Exactly. So

8:29

we have covered pretty much everything you need to know

8:31

about question words in German today.

8:43

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