What is there in your room?
To ask someone what is in their room, use the following question:
- Was gibt es in deinem Zimmer? - What is there in your room?
To say what you have in your room, use es gibt (there is/are). To say a after es gibt you will need einen (masculine), eine (feminine) or ein (neuter).
- Es gibt ein Bett in meinem Zimmer - There is a bed in my room.
- Es gibt einen Kleiderschrank, eine Lampe und ein Bett in meinem Zimmer - There is a wardrobe, a lamp and a bed in my room.
- Es gibt einen Schreibtisch und ein Bett in meinem Zimmer - There is a desk and a bed in my room.
To say you don鈥檛 have something, use keinen (masculine), keine (feminine) or kein (neuter).
- Es gibt keinen Schreibtisch und keine Kommode in meinem Zimmer 鈥 There is no desk and no chest of drawers in my room.
Look at the vocabulary below. Can you say what is in your room?
German | English |
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der Kleiderschrank | wardrobe |
der Schrank | cupboard |
der Schreibtisch | desk |
der Nachttisch | bedside table |
der Teppich | carpet/rug |
der St眉hl | chair |
die Lampe | lamp |
die Kommode | chest of drawers |
das Bett | bed |
das Etagenbett | bunk bed |
das Poster | poster |
das Regal | shelves |
To say you share a room, use the verb teilen.
- Ich teile - I share
- Ich teile ein Zimmer mit meiner Schwester - I share a room with my sister.
- Ich teile ein Zimmer mit meinem Bruder - I share a room with my brother.
Describing furniture and objects in your room
You can use adjectives to describe an object or piece of furniture in your room. To talk about your furniture, check the gender of the noun and use the correct form of mein (masculine and neuter) or meine (feminine).
- Mein Bett is 驳谤辞脽 - My bed is big.
- Mein Kleiderschrank ist braun - My wardrobe is brown.
- Meine Lampe ist 飞别颈脽 - My lamp is white.
- Mein Zimmer ist klein und ordentlich - My room is small and tidy.
Can you describe your room using the adjectives below?
German | English |
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驳谤辞脽 | big |
klein | small |
ordentlich | tidy |
unordentlich | untidy |
rot | red |
blau | blue |
驳谤眉苍 | green |
gelb | yellow |
飞别颈脽 | white |
schwarz | black |
grau | grey |
orange | orange |
braun | brown |
rosa | pink |
lila | purple |
Saying where things are in your room
To describe where things are in your room, you need to use prepositions. Prepositions are words and phrases like under and next to. They tell you where something is.
Prepositions in German often change the article (the/a) depending on whether the noun is masculine, feminine or neuter. This is because they are describing the static position of something in your room and therefore use the dative case. The table below shows how articles change in the dative case:
the | a | |
---|---|---|
masculine | dem | einem |
feminine | der | einer |
neuter | dem | einem |
plural | den |
- Der Stuhl ist unter dem Schreibtisch - The chair is under the desk.
- Die Lampe ist neben der Kommode - The lamp is next to the chest of drawers.
- Der Teppich ist zwischen dem Bett und der Kommode - The rug is between the bed and chest of drawers.
- Das Poster ist an der Wand - The poster is on the wall.
Use the vocabulary in the table below to talk about where things are in your room:
German | English |
---|---|
unter | under |
auf | on |
in | in |
neben | next to |
zwischen | between |
an | on |
vor | in front of |
驳别驳别苍眉产别谤 | opposite |
hinter | behind |
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