Weekdays, Months, Seasons, Wind Directions, The Alphabet and Parts of The Day in German
Hello everyone,
Here is a list of weekdays, months, seasons, wind directions, the alphabet and it's pronounciation and parts of the day in German.
Weekdays
- Montag (Monday)
- Dienstag (Tuesday)
- Mittwoch (Wednesday)
- Donnerstag (Thursday)
- Freitag (Friday)
- Samstag (Saturday)
- Sonntag (Sunday)
Month Names
- Januar (January)
- Februar (February)
- März (March)
- April (April)
- Mai (May)
- Juni (June)
- Juli (July)
- August (August)
- September (September)
- Oktober (October)
- November (November)
- Dezember (December)
Seasons
- Der Frühling (The Spring)
- Der Sommer (The Summer)
- Der Herbst (The Fall/Autumn)
- Der Winter (The Winter)
Wind Directions
- Der Norden (The North)
- Der Süden (The South)
- Der Westen (The West)
- Der Osten (The East)
The Alphabet and It's Pronunciation
A - aah
B - It's pronounced like the word 'Air' but starting with a 'b' and without saying the 'r' at the end.
C - It's pronounced like the word 'Air' but staring with a 's' and without saying the 'r' at the end.
D - It's pronounced like the word 'Air' but starting with a 'd' and without saying the 'r' at the end.
E - It's pronounced like the word 'Air' but without the 'r'.
F - ef
G - It's pronounced like the word 'Air' but starting with a 'g' and without saying the 'r' at the end. (The 'g' consonant is pronounced sort of like the 'g' at the start of the word 'geese'.)
H - ha
I - ee
J - Yot
K - Kah
L - Ell
M - It's pronounced like the word 'Air' but instead of the 'r' there's an 'm'.
N - It's pronounced like the word 'Air' but instead of the 'r' there's an 'n'
O - It's pronounced like the word 'Or' but don't pronounce the 'r'.
P - It's pronounced like the word 'Air' but starting with a 'p' and without saying the 'r' at te end.
Q - Koo
R - It's pronounced like the word 'Air' but instead of the 'r', you should say 'ah'.
S - It's pronounced like the word 'Air' but instead of the 'r' there is an 's'.
T - It's pronounced like the word 'Air' but don't pronounce the 'r' and starting with a 't'.
U - Ooh (It's pronounced as though you're expressing surprise)
V - Fah-oo
W - It's pronounced like the word 'Air' but don't pronounce the 'r' and starting with a 'v'. (Sort of like the word 'Veer' but don't pronounce the 'r'.)
X - ix (Looks like a roman numeral, right?)
Y - Oops-ellon (Like "Oops! Ellon!)
Z - tsett
For a better discription, take a look at German with Jenny's video on the alphabet and it's pronounciation.
Times of the Day
- Morgen (Morning)
- Tag (Day)
- Mittag (Midday)
- Nachmittag (Afternoon)
- Abend (Evening)
- Nacht (Night)
- Mitternacht (Midnight)
If anyone has something to add, contribute or correct, please say so 'in the comments bellow'!
I hope this helped, and good luck!
AP4418
26 Comments
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The vowel of the letters B, C, D, G, P, W are spoken like the you described it for the T.
For the C it is "tse", with e like the German E as you described it for the T or the E
For Y (Ypsilon) take the y from "rhythm" and then say ypseelon with the stress on the first syllable. English Oo is spoken like German U. German Y is spoken like German Ü, maybe like the English y in pyramid or rhythm?
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W: It's pronounced like the word 'Air' but don't pronounce the 'r' and starting with a 'v'.
Not the "v" instead of the "r" as your wrote it by now.
Thanks! Are you going to make more?
there is a small typo in the names of weeksdays section: it must be Freitag not Fritag.
Nachmittag - Afternoon
Nicely put thread.
This is the content you learn right off the bat in a first-year school course. Thanks, it always helps to review stuff that I don’t see enough.
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For me as an English-learner: What means "bat" in this context? I know the bat as a flying animal which is not a bird. And in my dictionary I just read that it can also be a stick to hit things in sport (I do not know this exactly) and as a verb it can mean "to hit a ball". Is it used figuratively here?
