Kleidung – Mode – Körper – GesundheitClass 9 German Chapter 3 Notes – Maharashtra Board

Textbook: German – Standard IX (Balbharati, official free PDF) · pages 44–67

Lektion 3 takes you shopping and to the doctor! You learn the names of clothes and accessories, colours and patterns, how to give compliments at a party and how to say whether something fits, suits or pleases you. Then you name the parts of the body and the organs, say where it hurts (Ich habe Kopfschmerzen, Mein Bein tut weh) and compare life in the past and today. The grammar covers adjective endings after der and ein, verbs that take the Dativ (gefallen, passen, stehen, gehören, schmecken, helfen …) and the past forms war and hatte. Landeskunde: Austria. Reading: summer sales and what teenagers think about fashion.

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Summary: Kleidung – Mode – Körper – Gesundheit

3A1 and 3A2: clothes for every season — Winterkleidung, Sommerkleidung, Berufskleidung, Freizeitkleidung — with colours and patterns: kariert (checked), gestreift (striped), gepunktet (dotted), geblümt (flowery), gemustert (patterned). Jochen and Edith shop for a party and give compliments there.

3A3 Beim Einkaufen: Passt dir der Pulli? Die Farbe gefällt mir nicht. Die Schuhe stehen dir gut. Gehört Ihnen dieses Handy? — verbs with the Dativ.

3A4 and 3A5: body parts and organs from das Gehirn to der Zeh; aches and pains (Kopfschmerzen, Halsschmerzen …); Michi feels unwell at home and Martin visits the doctor.

3A6 and Teil B: Technologie früher und heute with war and hatte; adjective endings (ein brauner Hut, den braunen Hut, die schwarzen Schuhe); verbs with Nominativ, Akkusativ and Dativ.

3C and 3D: Austria — mountains, the Danube, Vienna's coffee houses, Mozart and the Opera Ball; then the end-of-season sales in Germany and six teenagers' opinions on fashion.

Key points to remember

  • Patterns: kariert, gestreift, gepunktet, geblümt, gemustert; colours can be made lighter or darker: hellblau, dunkelgrün
  • After ein (Nominativ) the adjective shows the gender: ein brauner Hut, eine rote Mütze, ein hübsches Kleid
  • After der/die/das (Nominativ) the adjective ends in -e: der weiße Rock, die blaue Bluse, das grüne Hemd
  • In the Akkusativ only the masculine changes: einen braunen Hut, den weißen Rock; plural with an article always -en: die schwarzen Schuhe
  • Verbs with Dativ only: gefallen, passen, stehen, gehören, schmecken, helfen, danken, gratulieren, glauben, antworten
  • Pains: Ich habe Kopf-/Zahn-/Hals-/Bauch-/Rücken-/Ohrenschmerzen; Mein Bein tut weh — Meine Augen tun weh
  • Was fehlt dir? = What's wrong with you? · Mir ist schwindlig = I feel dizzy · Ich fühle mich nicht wohl = I don't feel well
  • Präteritum: sein → war, warst, war, waren, wart, waren; haben → hatte, hattest, hatte, hatten, hattet, hatten
  • Austria: 9 Bundesländer, capital Wien, longest river die Donau, about 60 % mountains
  • Kleider machen Leute — clothes make the man (a German proverb used in the reading text)
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