{"id":57,"date":"2014-11-16T15:37:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T10:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.learn-german.in\/?p=57"},"modified":"2014-11-16T15:45:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T10:15:51","slug":"lesson-1-greetings-gruse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learn-german.in\/lessons\/lesson-1-greetings-gruse","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 1- Greetings-Gr\u00fc\u00dfe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings in German in various situations is given in the table below. The casual way of greeting someone is reserved only for friends and family. When meeting someone for the first time or when conversing with colleagues and elders it is always recommended to use the formal way of addressing. As a general rule, always use the more formal way of speaking when in Germany, namely with <b>Sie<\/b> (formal <i>you<\/i> ) instead of <b>du<\/b> (familiar <i>you <\/i><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>English<\/th>\n<th><b> <i>German<\/i><\/b><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hello.<\/td>\n<td><b><i>Hallo.<\/i> <\/b><br \/>\n<b><i>Gr\u00fc\u00df dich!<\/i><\/b>\u00a0 casual<br \/>\n<b><i> Gr\u00fc\u00df Gott!<\/i><\/b>\u00a0 In southern Germany and Austria.<br \/>\n<b> <i> Guten Tag.<\/i><\/b>\u00a0 Hello\/Good Day.<br \/>\n<b> <i> Guten Morgen\/Guten Abend.<\/i><\/b> Good morning\/evening.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Bye!<\/td>\n<td><b> <i>Auf Wiedersehen.<\/i><\/b><br \/>\n<b><i>Auf Wiederh\u00f6ren.<\/i><\/b> Bye on the telephone.<br \/>\n<b> <i> Tsch\u00fcss!<\/i><\/b>\u00a0 casual<br \/>\n<b> <i>Bis bald!<\/i><\/b>\u00a0 See you soon!<br \/>\n<b> <i>Bis sp\u00e4ter!<\/i><\/b>\u00a0 See you later!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>How are you?<\/td>\n<td><b> <i>Wie geht es Ihnen?<\/i><\/b>\u00a0 formal<br \/>\n<b> <i> Wie geht es dir?<\/i><\/b>\u00a0 casual<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>I&#8217;m fine.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m so-so.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not doing well.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m doing better.<\/td>\n<td><b> <i>Es geht mir gut.<\/i><\/b><br \/>\n<b> <i>Es geht.<\/i><\/b><br \/>\n<b> <i> Es geht mir schlecht.<\/i><\/b><br \/>\n<b> <i>Es geht mir besser.<\/i><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Excuse me!<\/td>\n<td><b> <i>Entschuldigen Sie bitte!<\/i><\/b> formal<br \/>\n<b><i>Entschuldigung!<\/i><\/b>\u00a0 casual<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Pardon me?<\/td>\n<td><b> <i> Wie bitte?<\/i><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Please.<\/td>\n<td><b> <i>Bitte.<\/i>. <\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Thank you.<\/td>\n<td><b> <i> Danke. <\/i><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>I&#8217;m sorry.<\/td>\n<td><b> <i>Es tut mit leid. <\/i> <\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Really?<\/td>\n<td><b> <i>Wirklich? <\/i> <\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Gladly!<\/td>\n<td><b><i>Gerne!<\/i><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Nice to meet you.<\/td>\n<td><b> <i>Sehr erfreut. <\/i> <\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Take care<\/td>\n<td><b><i>Mach&#8217;s gut.<\/i><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings in German in various situations is given in the table below. The casual way of greeting someone is reserved only for friends and family. When meeting someone for the first time or when conversing with colleagues and elders it is always recommended to use the formal way of addressing. As a general rule, always &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learn-german.in\/lessons\/lesson-1-greetings-gruse\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lesson 1- Greetings-Gr\u00fc\u00dfe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learn-german.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learn-german.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learn-german.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learn-german.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learn-german.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.learn-german.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/www.learn-german.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learn-german.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learn-german.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learn-german.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}