#German grammar personal pronouns professional#

🇬🇧 - Fiona is my friend and she is very nice. 🇩🇪 - Fiona ist meine Freundin und sie ist sehr nett.

#German grammar personal pronouns professional#

We use it to address one person (like in the first example here) or multiple people (like in the second example here) with whom we have a professional relationship or whom we don’t know well. It means “you” and is therefore used to address the people you’re directly communicating with. The formal „Sie“ is always capitalized and combined with a verb in its plural form. Now, this could be tricky since the same word is used to refer to “them” and to “you” (remember: the formal “Sie” is always capitalized!). When referring to a female person, we use the personal pronoun “sie”. When referring to a male person, we use the personal pronoun “er”. It is also very important to capitalize “Sie”, as it is also a sign of respect. It is a sign of politeness and respect to address people you don’t know very well and people you have a professional relationship with “Sie”. Now, although there isn’t a difference between formal and informal “you” in English, it is very important in German. If you aren’t sure whether you’re close to someone or not, it is better to address them with “Sie” to ensure we are being polite! When using “Sie” we always also use the verb in its plural form. 🇬🇧 - The new Museum is very nice! And how do you like the new museum, Daniel? 🇩🇪 - Das neue Museum ist sehr schön! Und wie findest du das neue Museum, Daniel? 🇬🇧 - OK! And you should do the same thing! So, how do you find the new museum? 🇩🇪 - Gut! Und du solltest dasselbe tun! Also, wie findest du das neue Museum? 🇬🇧 - Please, address me with “du” (you)! I am not that old! 🇩🇪 - Sagen Sie mir „du“, bitte! So alt bin ich nicht! 🇩🇪 - Guten Tag, Herr Schmidt! Wie finden sie das neue Museum? In the following short dialogue, you can see an example of such permission: “Du” often comes with permission, meaning that someone has to allow you to say “du” to them. Using “du” implies a close relationship to someone and you shouldn’t use it to address people you’ve just met, you don’t know very well or you have a strictly professional relationship with. Now, similarly to the way it would be impolite to say “Tschüss!” to your boss, it would also be considered impolite to address them with “du”. “Du” means “you”, but it is only meant to be used when addressing family members or people you’re close to. Now we get to the dilemma from Julia’s story. Unlike the English pronoun, we don’t capitalise this German personal pronoun we use to speak about ourselves. So, in case you’d like to get some more details about each specific pronoun, just click on the corresponding button.German personal pronouns in the singular form ☞ I/ich In the following you can find the different articles on about pronouns in the German language. “Ich geben dir ein Geschenk.” – I give a present to you.Īs you might have noticed already, this text is just a superficial overview about the broad topic of German pronouns.Of course, here are some examples that illustrate the basic German pronouns. Here you have a list of the basic dative German pronouns. So, they are used as the indirect object in a sentence. Unfortunately, dative pronouns differ much more from nominative than accusative pronouns. “Das Geschenk ist für dich.” – The present is for you.

Here are some examples for the use of accusative German pronouns. But you also have to keep in mind that a lot of accusative pronouns are the same as the nominative pronouns. This kind of pronouns is mainly used when the pronoun is the object of a sentence. So, another very important part of German pronouns are the accusative ones. Now, we will come to the next kind of German pronouns, the basic accusative pronouns. Nevertheless, you should master it completely in order to go into some more complicated topic. Of course, this is total basic German grammar. In the following, I will show you a list of nominative German pronouns. Well, as you might already have thought, these German pronouns are used as a subject of a sentence. So, this is maybe the easiest part of German pronouns, the nominative pronouns. Please, note that we will not talk about German possessive pronouns in this article – it’s a broad topic and I thought, it’s worth writing an article on its own apart from this one. So, you can structure them into nominative, accusative and dative pronouns. First of all, we will list some basic German pronouns.