LESSON NOTES

Learn German in Three Minutes

#13
Talking About Your Age

CONTENTS
2 Vocabulary
2 Sample Sentences
2 Grammar

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VOCABULARY

Ge r man English C lass

bin am conjugated verb

ich I personal pronoun

achtzehn eighteen numeral

Jahrgang year noun

alt old adjective

SAMPLE SENTENCES

Ich bi n z e h n J a h re a l t. Ich bi n Arz t.

I am ten years old. I am a doctor.

Ich bi n Ma rk. So ph i e i st g e ra d e a ch tz e h n
g e w o rd e n .
I am Mark.
Sophie just turned eighteen.

Ich m a g a l te Sch tz e . D e r Ma n n i st se h r a l t.

I like old treasures. The man is very old.

D i e se s G e b u d e i st 1 0 0 J a h re a l t.

This building is 100 years old.

GRAMMAR

Th e fo cu s o f th i s l e sso n i s a ski n g a n d g i vi n g a g e s i n G e rm a n

To pi c 1 : H o w to ta l k a bo u t yo u r a g e

Sentence from the lesson:

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 Wie alt sind Sie?
"How old are you?"

1. Wie alt sind Sie? "How old are you?" in formal German.
In informal German, it would be: Wie alt bist du?

2. Here are some examples to answer with your age.

"I am 18" -> Ich bin achtzehn.
"I am 20" -> Ich bin zwanzig.
"I am 25" -> Ich bin fnfundzwanzig.
"I am 40" -> Ich bin vierzig.

3. We start with Ich bin, which means "I am." This is the conjugated version of sein.
Achtzehn is "18."

4. Sometimes young German people won't ask your age directly, instead, they will ask
your birth year.
You might hear this question in an informal situation:
Welcher Jahrgang bist du? "Of which year are you?"
You just have to answer using the two last figures of your birth year:
Ich bin Jahrgang neunundachtzig. "I am of the year 89."

L a n g u a g e Ti p!

If you are estimating somebody's age, you say:

Du bist um die dreiig. "You're around 30."
Du bist um die fnfundzwanzig, "You're around 25" and so on.
You are not liable to overestimate the other's age but be as concrete as necessary at the
same time.

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