Hello everyone,
And welcome to a new episode of Learning Quiz.
Hooray.
If this is your first Learning Quiz ever – a learning quiz is basically a kind of interactive mini lecture.
So you’ll be learning about a topic, but instead of me dropping a bunch of information on you, we’ll explore and discover it together over the course of a little quiz.
This is a really great way to learn because by being confronted with a problem your brain is basically primed to learn and remember the solution. It has “skin in the game” so to speak.
Anyway, today, we’ll do a Learning Quiz for:
The Meaning, Usage and Family of “der Grund”
So if you’re ready, let’s jump right in.
Here’s how it works:
I’ll ask a question and you can see if you know the answer or if you can reason your way to it. Or if I maybe hinted at the answer before.
And then, along with the answer, I’ll give you some information about why and what’s going on.
And I have tried to build it up in a way that makes didactic sense, with a bit of foreshadowing here and a bit of callback there :).
Note that the goal of this is NOT that you ace the quiz. If you do, that’s great, but the main goal is that you LEARN something and have a good time doing it.
So don’t go in with any sense of pressure that you have to perform. Go in with a sense of ” I want to explore.”
I tried to make it a mix between easy questions and somewhat harder questions, so even if you already know der Grund (and many of you do), I think there’s something in there for you about prepositions. Someone recently asked about that in the comments and it was such a great question that I did give it a section here.
Now, I do have a more classic article on the topic as well. I’ll leave the link below, so you can check that out after.
But now, let’s get right to the “quizzon”…. that’s… that’s a mix between quiz and lesson.
Viel Spaß
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So, how did you do?
Was it too easy or too hard? Too long, too short?
Let me know any feedback you might have in the comments.
And the same goes for questions about this topic of course.
And if you want to dig in more, see more examples in practice and explore some more useful Grund-words like gründlich or grundsätzlich, check out my article about the family.
I have recently given it a little do-over and I have ALSO added my new text comprehension training tool to it, so you can practice the various Grund-words in context while also practicing reading comprehension in the style of German exams.
You can find it here:
That’s it for today, I hope you enjoyed it and learned a thing or two.
Have a great week and bis zum nächsten Mal!
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> begründen is it its core about …
it -> in
3 of 8 wrong, just enough. Good lesson, love the format.
Spaß! Vielen Danke- Ich fahren nacht Berlin 16-20 Juli – vielleicht wir will treffen, lol Meine Tochter möchte im Berlin Arbeit und wohnen!
Ich werde Anfang August Papa, ich werde also wahrscheinlich keine Zeit haben :). Aber viel Spass hier, geniess die Stadt!!
das war für mich sehr produktiv. jedoch habe ich einen großen Unfall mit ein volle Tasse Kaffee und aus diesem Grund erinnere mich das Wort Grund für immer! Zum glück, habe ich mir nicht schlechte verbrannt. For goodness sake!
Oh, Mist :)!!
Kleine Korrektur:
… jedoch hatte(not habe) ich einen grossen Unfall mit einer vollen Kaffeetasse und aus diesem Grund werde ich mich immer an das Wort Grund erinnern.
Zum Glueck habe ich mich nicht schlimm verbrannt.
Danke sehr!
About the right level of difficulty for me. Half I got right, half not. Well worth the time. Small note that the matching uses Grundlage in the question and Grundlagen in the answer, and I’m not even sure that wasn’t intentional. Looking forward to the next one.
6/8, you tricked me with the last one and I got confused on the second question with aus/für. I thought maybe “wofür” is kind of a synonym for “aus welchem Grund,” but then again it’s not an exact synonym regardless.
“wofür” absolutely isn’t a synonym in German. It sounds like “for what purpose/goal”, and it’s quite confusing when you use it to ask for the “cause” or reasoning of something :)
Great as usual! I strove for 12/12, but the matching was my downfall. Please continue to do this kind of quiz; it is truly a fun learning tool.
Simply great! Thanks for giving us a nice way to learning english. I love your Learning Quizzes…
i ABSOLUTELY LOVED this way of learning! it is really memorable via a quiz :)
I enjoy making these, so I’ll definitely do more. Glad you like them!
Thank you. I really like the explanations after the questions.
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Great lesson! I second guessed myself with Grundstück. I immediately thought of Stück Kuchen-slice of cake- but still didn’t think ‘piece of ground’
Ground beef as an option made laugh x-D
Great quizzon! More, please!
Another typo: one of the explanations included the phrase that was meant to be “at its core” but reads “… it its core”
Great- Vielen Dank !
Hallo,
Here are two typos I found:
“You in with a sense” (Go in with a sense)
In Q7: “see how divers words with Grund can be” (see how diverse words with Grund can be)
I only failed one, so I think I did pretty well, but yes, do more of these, they’re great :)))
Bis bald!
“divers”… okay, now I see them diving. Brain, why can’t you catch that as I write it :)
I have seen “divers” (accent on first syllable, short i) used as an adjective in older writings, like from 1800s, meaning “many different sorts of”. Seems useful to me, don’t know why it fell away. Maybe it morphed into “diverse”, pronounced differently (accent on second syllable, long i) , but still meaning “many different sorts of”. Because English :-D
So, yeah, “divers” (accent on first syllable, long i) is now the guys with scuba gear. :-)
These Quizzons are great! Now I’m going to take a look at The Word of the Day article :)
Ohne frage und hammerhart fest begründet!
Emanuel ist der größte “Sprachlenker” aller Zeiten!
World’s best teacher of German words and grammar.
Aber natuerlich gibt’s dafuer einen Grund! Sei doch bitte vernuenftig. Was du sagst, hat keinen Sinn! Deine Antwort musst du schon naeher begruenden.
-:)
I was on course for my first 100% correct quiz until the last two questions. Good quizzon!