“NPCs”
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Hi everyone,
and welcome back to the final week of the German learning Advent Calendar.
I have not fully planned this week yet, so I’ll have some decisions to make about what to include and what to leave out.
I’ll only pick the top options, and the option for today is absolutely one the
most!
boring!
exercises!
yet!
Hooray!!!!!!!!!
And exercise about:
NPCs
Which is short for Noun Perb Combinations. And the P is SOFT!! Like a V. I just wanted to trick you into thinking I am going to talk about NPCs.
And yes… I indeed did have a beer or three today, so what?
But seriously, this is actually a topic that a few of you suggested when I asked around for ideas before the calendar.
Noun-Verb combinations is stuff like in Betracht ziehen or Kritik üben. So a noun that goes together with a certain verb as a kind of semi fixed phrasing. Once you get to B2 level, you get literally plastered with these, and they’re kind of hard to learn because there are many of them and there’s no real logic or system to them.
That’s also why I CAN’T really actually “explain” them. They’re just fixed combinations that happened to be the phrasing of choice, for better or worse.
So instead of some theory, I though I’ll just pick a few of them and make them into a little quiz. And if you like this kind of format, we can do more like this in the future.
So… without much further ado, here’s the quiz.
Oh… and don’t beat yourself up if you get them all wrong. If you don’t know them, then it’s really just guessing for the most part. So maybe come back after a few days and do the quiz again, just to see.
Viel Erfolg!!
And, how’d you do? Was that difficult? Let me know in the comments if you think this format is helpful and we can do more of it in the future.
And of course, if you have questions about any of the combinations, let me know as well.
Have an absolute blast of a day, or at least one with a mini blast of joy at some point. You deserve it!
Tschau und bis morgen :)
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Sehr toll! Bitte nachmals.
I LOVED THIS METHOD. Please make more .I didn’t do very well but I’ll study them and try my luck again. Thank you so much.
I knew two of these and just guessed the rest, but somehow got them all right. That is too many to just be random. Apparently I have developed some Bauchgefuhl without being aware of it. Sehr aufregend!
Ici liebe diese Übung ” Nomen-Verb Komposition ” . Ich wüsste alles ausser ” eine Bestellungen aufgeben” . Eigentlich wüsste nicht diesen Sinne des Aufgeben” .
Vielen Dank dafür.
Bis Morgen .
I learned “einen Beitrag leisten” from Duolingo!
I got them all right but thats cus I’ve spent hours trying to memorise this stuff… I think what is tricky about them is the verb often seems very arbitary… At least “Entscheidung treffen” you get to think about something kicking something or something like that and that helps form a memorable image…
They’re also all straight from the list you sent me :D
haha yeh I guessed so… would have been embarassing if i hadn’t got these right…
Nice exercise! I definitely remember learning some of these in language courses back in the day, others I’ve picked up more passively since. The format is nice, though, with the actual quiz question and then a little explanatory (to the extent explanation is possible) blurb.
This is good. There might be hundreds, but I think one must get them in the ear/mind early. Frage>Stellen is another one (at least was for my American brain), but it makes sense with the English ‘to pose a question’ – a phrase almost gone from the language by ‘ask’. I like these a lot and one can take the ones that they think will help them the most based on where they are in the language and what they feel they need. Thanks p.s. my vote is you are more than welcome to do this again in this week of undecided content for Advent :)
Ok, this was very funny, I must have come across these before, because my first instinct was actually right every time, but I doubted myself for most of the questions.
These kinds of terms are interesting because they’re basically just vocabulary words in themselves but expanded. And single words are playing the role that word roots usually play. A really helpful/interesting topic.
Also kind of a bottomless pit unfortunately. There are hundreds of these. Most of them you don’t need for everyday spoken German, but a lot of them apperantly are topic in C1 class.
Meine Punktzahl: 6/7. Das ist eine sehr hilfreiche Art der Übung.
Hallo!
I guess this is the post you said I was going to love :)
And yep, I did, even more so because I got them ALL right, which surprised even myself (although I’ve been making a list and checking it twice… like Santa Clause, Clause being an intended pun in this case, as I guess it is in your example?)
Danke sehr und bis morgen!
Santa Clause and Subordinate Clause :)