Idioms & Expressions

German Expressions and Idioms – Food Special

In this quiz, we'll learn 7 nice and useful German idioms that involve food. We'll learn what they mean and also, WHY they mean what they mean. Enjoy!

German Idioms and Expressions – Episode 3

  Hello everyone, and welcome back to your favorite German learning Wodcasts. Wodcasts are podcasts, but in written form and it’s going to be the next hot thing. You heard it here first. So yeah, welcome to the show, and today, we’ll take a virtual trip to Quizzington, because today, it’s time for another episode of: German Expressions Quiz And today’s lot has an especially high daily life factor :). As usual, we’ll do 7 expressions, which is a good number for one session. I’ll give you the German expression along with a literal translation and an example and then, I’ll give you a few possible meanings and you have to try and pick the right one. And then, along with the answer, I’ll give you some information about the logic or origin of the expression and possible things you need to know when using it.

German Expressions Quiz – Episode 2

Hello everyone, and welcome to your German Word of the Day. And by “word” I mean “test” because it’s surprise exam time! Phones away, pens out. This one counts for the final grade. N-Deklination, Passiversatzformen and Pronomenreziprozitätsreduktion are on the menu. “Booooohhhh.” Nah, I’m kidding of course. It’s not really a test, it’s a fun quiz. “Uh… mehhhhhhh.” Or as I like to call it… a Quiz-planation™. Because I’m not just going to ask you a bunch of questions, I’ll actually give you some explanation and trivia for each answer. “Oh… hmmm, interesting.” And today, we’ll do an especially fun topic because today, we’ll learn a few Useful German Expressions “Hooray!!” We did one quiz like this already in January during our quiz special, and it’s more than time for a new round. So let’s dive right in.

7 German Expressions (That people actually use) – The Quiz

Hello everyone, and welcome to the first real new post in 2024, the certified best year to learn German.     I think many of you just got back from vacation in the last few days, so you might not have read last week’s article yet, but in it, I asked you all if you’d like to do a kind of January exercise special to really start the year off active. And there was communism level of agreement, with 89% of you saying “Yes”. So throughout January, we’ll do a bunch of exercises of various kinds. And today, we’ll start with a nice quiz about German Expressions    I’ll give you some German expressions along with an example and you have to try and figure out the meaning. Along with the solution, I’ll give you some information about each expression, like where it comes from or how to translate it. And I’ve only picked expressions that people actually use in daily life…. well, except one, which I just find funny. But yeah, almost all of them are absolutely worth adding to your active vocabulary because they’ll make you sound really authentic. Now, originally I thought about doing 12 or 14 … <a href="https://yourdailygerman.com/7-german-expressions-that-people-actually-use/">Dive in <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>