Family members, relationships, household roles, and describing people close to you.
Recognize and use common words for parents, children, siblings, spouses, and grandparents, including Mutter, Vater, Schwester, Bruder, and Großeltern.
Translate words from your previous vocabulary lesson.
Talk about aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, stepfamily, and in-laws with the appropriate German family terms.
Read sentences using words you recently learned.
Listen to sentences using words you recently learned.
Use words for partners, friends, roommates, neighbors, and relationship status, including Partner, Freundin, Mitbewohner, ledig, and verheiratet.
Identify and introduce people with patterns such as Das ist meine Schwester, Das sind meine Eltern, and Wer ist das?
Choose mein, dein, sein, ihr, unser, and euer to show whose relative or household member is being discussed. Match possessive determiners to noun gender and number in the nominative case.
Distinguish singular and plural family nouns and use der, die, and das with common terms. Practice forms such as der Bruder–die Brüder and die Tochter–die Töchter.
Describe close people with sein and predicative adjectives, as in Mein Vater ist ruhig and Meine Geschwister sind lustig. Use common words for personality and appearance without adjective endings.
Say who has siblings, children, pets, or other close relations by conjugating haben in statements and questions, such as Ich habe zwei Brüder and Hast du Kinder?
Express family connections with a name plus -s and with von, as in Annas Bruder and der Bruder von Anna. Build clear relationship chains when possessive determiners are not enough.
Use common phrases for household and caregiving roles, such as sich um die Kinder kümmern, zusammenleben, den Haushalt teilen, and allein wohnen.
Review this chapter with practice based on your mistakes.
