Day 4

Jul 22, 2025

Apparently, you can write umlauts quickly on Mac keyboard by pressing option + u and then the letter you want. Ä, ë, ö. For Eszett (ß), you can use option + s!

Words from cards:

• voll - full
• halb - half
• Die Pension(en) - pension
• But Pension with voll/halb also is some “board” term related to food at Hotels
• Der Fahrer - driver (I drive)
• schwer - difficult
• Der Computer - hrmmmmmmmmm
• Dar Dank - thanks
• Der Mensch(en) - Man (capital M, small m is Mann)/people

Words learned impromptu:

• Das Zimmer - room
• mögen - want to
• laufen - run/go/walk
• Der Kaffee - coffee
• brauchen - need
• nur - just/only
• anders - (think/be/sound/whatever) different(ly) (als - to)
• als is when/as/than ???
• bei - near/by/among (AMOGUS)/by/with/at?
• Die Arbeit - Knew it’s work/job/labour, but not that the noun is feminine

Months

• All months are masculine (some regularity for once!)

• Der Januar

• Der Februar

• Der März

• Der April

• Der Mai

• Der Juni

• Der Juli

• Der August

• Der September

• Der Oktober

• Der November

• Der Dezember

Numbers

The German system for numbers is… uh. It seems to resemble English one, but the order of tens and single numbers is reversed. And there are funky way in which some words change there.

• 0 - null
• 1 - eins
• 2 - zwei
• 3 - drei
• 4 - vier
• 5 - fünf
• 6 - sechs
• 7 - sieben
• 8 - acht (TWENTY ACHT УДАРОВ НОЖОМ)
• 9 - neun
• 10 - zehn
• 11 - elf (is 12 gonna be dwarf?!)
• 12 - zwölf (aw, nope)

for 13-20 we get word+zehn with the digit. Basically like in English.

• 13 - dreizehn
• 14 - vierzehn
• 15 - fünfzehn
• 16 - sechzehn
• 17 - siebenzehn
• 18 - achtzehn
• 19 - neunzehn
• 20 - zwanzig

The tens are, again similar to English fif-ty, six-ty etc. Note the dropped s & en for 6 & 7 and that thirty is spelled with a Das™ Eszett

• 20 - zwanzig
• 30 - dreißig
• 40 - vierzig
• 50 - fünfzig
• 60 - sechzig
• 70 - siebzig
• 80 - achtzig
• 90 - neunzig

Numbers over 20 but below 100 are written with a sort of reverse-english (yes, I compare everything to English here because that’s my point of reference) notation - 21 is einundzwanzig (one-and-twenty, note that eins drops the s for large numbers).

• 52 - zweiundfünfzig

• 28 - achtundzwanzig

• 39 - neununddreißig

• 100 - Das Hundert

• 1000 - Das Tausend

• 1000000 - Die Million (why? why das das die?! oh right, German.)

• a billion - Die Milliarde (uh, oh)

• a trillion - Die Billion (UH OH)

• …

Only numbers above a million are separated from the enormous frankenword

• 20,750,001 - zwanzig Millionen zebenhundertfünfzigtausendeins
• 326 - dreihundertsachsundzwanzig (wait for me)
• 20,951 - zwanzigtausandneunhunderteinundfünfzig

Time

• Die Uhr is clock/watch/gauge, and we can say time as “(hour) Uhr (minutes)”.
• Wait for me, drei Uhr sachsundzwanzig