German Basics: Numbers, Seasons, and Time
Numbers 1-20 follow some handy patterns once you get the hang of them. The first ten are pretty unique (eins, zwei, drei, vier, fünf, sechs, sieben, acht, neun, zehn), but after that it gets easier. Numbers 13-19 mostly end in -zehn, like dreizehn (thirteen) and vierzehn (fourteen).
German seasons (jahreszeit) are brilliant because three of them look quite similar to English! Winter stays the same, sommer is clearly summer, and herbst is autumn. Only frühling (spring) is completely different, so that's the one to focus on remembering.
Days of the week all end in -tag (meaning day), which makes them dead easy to spot. Most sound similar to English too - montag, dienstag, donnerstag. The tricky ones are mittwoch (Wednesday) and samstag (Saturday), so give those extra attention.
Top Tip: German months are almost identical to English ones! Januar, februar, märz, april - you've already got most of them sorted.


