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Lesson 38 of 69 · A2, Unit 3: Work, learning, and free time

Technology and the internet

Tech vocabulary in German is full of English loanwords — der Computer, das Smartphone, die App, der Laptop — conjugated as German verbs: downloaden, googeln, liken. Your phone, though, is ein Handy.

Borrowed nouns get a gender, often by analogy with a German word: die App (die Anwendung), die E-Mail (die Post), das Internet (das Netz).

By the end you can:

  • talk about your devices and using the internet
  • use common tech verbs, borrowed and German
  • ask for a Wi-Fi password and describe a technical problem

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