6.2 Exercise
- Translate the following phrases into German
Translate
the following phrases.
I'm
a doctor.
The sky is blue.
He is honest.
We are rich.
You are rich.
The doctor is stupid.
The cups are green.
The men are reading.*
The women know a lot.
We are in Milano.
The banana is sweet.
Berlin is in Germany.
The donkey is drinking.
The man is crying.
The women laugh.
The men are cooking.
The women study.
The babies are walking.
I am German.
*
The English has a form that does not exist in German.
Have a look at these phrases:
1) What are you doing? I am working.
2) What do you do? I work.
These phrases are not the same. The first one means
something that happens right this moment. The second
one is more in general and does not express any specific
time - except that it is present. In German language
this distinction does not exist.
