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6. Länder


  Ich bin Spanier. Woher? kommst du?
I'm Spanish. Where do you come from?

  Ich komme aus Frankreich.
I come from France.

  Ich bin seit 2020 hier in Deutschland?.
I have been here in Germany since 2020.

  Und woher kommst du, John?
And where are you from, John?

  Ich bin Engländer. Ich wohne und arbeite jetzt hier in München.
I am English. I now live and work here in Munich.

  Wie ist das Wetter in Spanien?
How is the weather in Spain?

  Ist es immer warm??
Is it always warm?

  Nein, im Sommer ist es wirklich heiß, aber im Winter nicht.?
No, it is really hot in the summer, but not in the winter.


  Ich bin Amerikaner.
I'm American.

  Ich komme aus New York.
I come from New York.

  Ich wohne jetzt in Berlin.?
I'm now living in Berlin.

  Ich bleibe hier in Berlin noch sechs Monate und dann gehe? ich zurück nach Amerika?.
I'll stay here in Berlin for another six months, and then I'll go back to America.


  Hallo Nina, wann fährst? du nach Österreich?
Hello Nina, when are you going to Austria?

  Mein Mann und ich fahren im Mai nach Wien.
My husband and I are going to Vienna in May.

  Wir wollen die Stadt besichtigen.
We want to visit the city.

  Wien soll im? Frühling sehr schön sein.
Vienna should be very beautiful in the spring.

woher is a question word that you use to find out the origin, "from where" is someone coming. To ask "where to" is someone going, you would use the word wohin.

hin and her are words that are used in many other situations. her indicates approaching to a certain location (typically location of the speaker), while hin indicates moving away from a certain location (typically location of the speaker).
Notice how the present tense is used to describe an event that started in the past. In some situations, you can use the present tense to describe events related to the past.
You can start a question with question words (wo, wie, woher, wohin...) or you can just switch the first and second positions in a sentence, similar to English. "Ist es warm?" means "Is it warm?", while "Es ist warm" means "It is warm".
Here we have two sentences joined together with aber. Typically, in this situation, in both sentences, the verb comes in the second place, but in this example, in the second sentence, the verb ist was omitted for brevity, just like in English.
There are no articles before the names of cities.
Here we have two sentences joined together with "und". In this case both sentences keep the verb in the second place.
Notice how the present tense is used to describe an event that will take place in the future. It is common to express events in the future with present tense, but of course, you can also use future tense, which we will discuss later in this course.
fährst is 3rd person singular of fahren. Here we can see that the verb changes "a" into "ä". Some verbs have irregular conjugations.
im is used when you want to say that something happens in a certain season. im is actually a short form of in dem. And dem is definite article for masculine nouns in the dative (3rd noun case).

All seasons are masculine nouns. In one of the sentences, we can see "im Mai".

All the names of months are masculine nouns.

Key phrases


Woher kommst du?
Wie ist das Wetter?
Es ist wirklich heiß.
Wir fahren nach Berlin.
Wir wollen nach Frankreich fahren.

Questions


1. _ _ _ _ _ ? kommst du?
2. _ _ _ ? ist das Wetter?
3. Ich _ _ _ _ _ _ ? hier in Berlin noch sechs Monate.
4. Wann _ _ _ _ _ _ ? du nach Österreich?
5. Wir fahren morgen _ _ _ _ ? Berlin.

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