Advent Calendar 10 – “To not Confuse to Confuse”

“To not confuse to confuse“

Hallo ihr lieben,

welcome back to day 10 of our Advent Calendar.
Christmas is the time when we meet up with our family, and I think we’ve all been there:
we walk into the room and we’re like “Oh, grandpa, so good to see you.”
but the person is like “I’m your niece.” And you’re just like
“Oh my God, why do I always confuse you two?”. And the whole family is just like “Because, GLÜHWEIN.”
Now you might feel a little confused. And that’s perfect. It’ll get worse. Because today, we’ll do an exercise on the word to confuse.
Yeay!
To confuse has two translations in German, verwirren and verwechseln, and they’re a very very common mistake for German learners because unfortunately they are not synonymous at all.

We’ve talked about it in detail in an articles, so if you want, you can check that out here:

But if you don’t have time, here it is in a nutshell :)

verwirren is about a cloudy mind,
verwechseln is about taking A for B.

That’s what you get to practice today. Here are 10 sentences for you to translate to confusein them in some form.
Or if translating is too difficult (the last few are a bit longer), just try to find which idea of confuse the sentence is about… a cloudy mind, or taking A for B.
Oh… I actually “went the extra mile” to use my exercise setup. Just click the button to see the solution, or listen to it in the audio.
Oh, and if you’re using Firefox the audio might not play. You can find the direct mp3-links here.

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