German Reflexive Verbs Don't Exist - You're Doing It WRONG!

[@MrLAntrim]

You can get a worksheet and answer key to practice your skills with these kinds of phrases plus a copy of the video script and an mp3 version of this video right here: www.germanwithantrim.com/product/german-reflexive-verbs-dont-exist/

[@akoska]

Hi Levi! How do u prepare yourselves for christmas? Will u upload a christmas vido in german in thisyear?

[@MrLAntrim]

I wasn't planning on it this year.

[@akoska]

@@MrLAntrim Y?

[@toefur9182]

Ich bin ein neuer Lehrer von einem 102 Kurs an einer Uni und bin so dankbar, daß du Videos machst! Die verbessern meine Unterrichten! Danke!

[@MrLAntrim]

Danke. Das ist sehr cool und freut mich sehr.

[@scarlatti9130]

This is perfecttion, creativity and humor and a great teaching with good knowledge. It upsets me so much it is not getting the thousands of views it deserves. I keep learning from you

[@MrLAntrim]

Thanks. I'm glad you liked it.

[@shaggybg]

I like how you think in advance of questions that might come up and answer them. Kudos for that, keep on doing it!

[@MrLAntrim]

After 15 years of teaching German in a high school, it is easy to know which questions will be asked. I've answered them 15 years in a row.

[@inoah1694]

You answered all the questions in my head thank you for your effort its really a relief after Ps : i am among the dudes who make german complicated but i feel like i cant generate a sentence without fully understand the concept then i leave a very few mistakes if non . And thanke again your the best

[@NicolasMiari]

"Ich höre mir ein Paar Lieder" has an equivalent in Spanish, but there it is called "object of interest", and contrasted with the pattern where the object is "part of the subject" (e.g. washing one's hands), which is a proper "reflexive" use.

[@rosemaryhobbs3063]

I am so grateful to you for this explanation - brilliantly clear- but I have been caught by so many scams recently I mistrust making a financial contribution.

[@MrLAntrim]

No worries. I'm glad to help even without the financial contribution.

[@smellychocha4062]

You’re a godsend Herr Antrim. THANKS

[@ronalddiloro4628]

What a great way of teaching!Thanks a lot Herr Antrim, I have always tried to find a perfect method like this. All the best sir.

[@MrLAntrim]

I don't know about the perfect method, but this one is at least better than some.

[@leeatkinson9280]

...without a doubt, the funniest German teacher ever....

[@nithinj856]

5:00 Sir can we say Ich wasche die Hande meines Sohnes. Is this right?

[@prithwirajchatterjee4406]

awsome explanation Herr. Antrim.

[@Beery1962]

Man! This is why I hate grammar. Hey, I have an idea - I'll just get it wrong occasionally until I internalize it naturally. No one is really going to care, and I won't get a mental block and annoy everyone I'm talking with, due to stammering my way through conversations while trying to figure out how to say perfectly what I want to say.

[@MrLAntrim]

Most of the time this is a solid plan. Just be careful with the rest of the time.

[@Beery1962]

@@MrLAntrim Thanks for the reply. Don't get me wrong - I do appreciate your channel (I'm subscribed and I get notifications) - you are an excellent help to me in various ways. It's just that, when it comes to grammar, I have no aptitude for it, and I prefer not to have it become a stumbling block to fluency. I've been speaking horrible German for 3 decades. No one has ever taken offense yet. :) I think if I lived in Germany, I'd be more concerned with getting the grammar right - but then I'd also be getting much more practice, so it would come faster and easier. Since I'm only ever a tourist in Germany (I started learning German during my twenties while on a 3 month cycling trip), every German I've met has been happy that I'm at least making the effort to speak, rather than concerned that I speak properly.

[@MrLAntrim]

Fluency and being understood should always be the highest priority. Grammar is good for understanding the "why" behind the "how", but it is better to do and do poorly than to just think about doing it well.

[@jamesh3008]

Danke sehr Herr Antrim!

[@jillianfusco232]

POV: you found this video after already making an entire lesson on reflexive verbs

[@gordian99]

In the sentence "Er stellt sich ihrer Mutter vor." (He introduces himself to her mother) the dative form "ihrer" is used. Why? The dative proposition "zu" is _not_ present and "vorstellen" is not a dative verb like "helfen". Thx.

[@MrLAntrim]

She is essentially functioning as the indirect object of that sentence. She is the one to whom the "sich" is being presented.

[@gordian99]

​@@MrLAntrim Thanks for the reply. Yes, I see now what you mean. The reflexive pronoun sich is the direct object of the separable verb vorstellen and ihrer Mutter is its indirect object. If you change "ihrer Mutter" to the accusative "ihre Mutter", it implies the verb is "sich vorstellen", meaning "to imagine". And like you said in the video, the sentence hen means:: "He imagines her mother.".

[@PalasBrown]

Danke!

[@hildacardoj9541]

Thanks So mach Antrim . God Bless u

[@MrLAntrim]

You are very welcome.

[@gemütlicher]

Amazing video, 👏

[@lmusima3275]

Your son looks exactly like you ❤

[@akoska]

Na! So endlich! Wir bekam ein gutes Video! Jezt, ich ände deutsch nach englisch ein bißchen, aber danach rücke dem deutschen wieder zu! I knew that there r reflexive verbs in germn, but i feel n i think, that they r dont necessary at all! So we could say, ich dusche, easily, or ichbeeile or only beeile easily! Those mean da same! N now, as i promiced, i'll change from engölish 2 german back! So ja, spreche deutsch wieder! Aberich werde nich übersetzen das ich habe auf englisch gesagt! Die Tageschau sagte daß s schneien werden im Komitat Bekes am Nachmittag oder am Abend, zu Abend! Noch, wir haben leider keinen Schnee! In Budapest s schneit! Der Schne in Budapest und Debrezen ist gros!

[@iamhere6530]

13:56 why "einen Kürbis" with "an" instead of "einem Kürbis"? Shouldn't it be Dativ because of no movement? as an is wechselpräposition

[@fremejoker]

With dative the sentence would mean that the remembering takes places at/on a pumpkin (literally), which is not expressing "You remember me of a pumpkin".

[@juinavare6853]

Reflexive Verben waren mein Schwachpunkt bisher. Dieses Video erklärt alles so genial. Gott von Himmel hat das gesagt is sehr lustig und auch die ganze Wahrheit! Es ist nur so und warum ist es so? Weil Gott von Himmel hat das gesagt 😂 Ich mag Deutsch, weil diese Feinheiten der Sprache sind mir lieb!

[@Meiboscopy]

Wow das ist so hilfreich danke

[@iamhere6530]

11:51 why is it du___dir instead of du____dich? Ansehen takes akkusativ pronomen i guess

[@iamhere6530]

is it because ein par YT videos is direct object?

[@MrLAntrim]

Yes. That's why.

[@RahulSharma-oc2qd]

When you imagine someone’s mother. How that is going to be a reflexive verb? Ich stelle mir ihre Mutter vor? I am not getting why this should be reflexive?

[@fremejoker]

Because without the reflexive pronoun "mir" you'll get "Ich stelle ihre Mutter vor." and I would ask "Wem stellst du ihre Mutter vor?". It would mean you introduce the mother to someone and I would wonder as to whom are you introducing the mother.

[@manumaheendran2008]

Du erinnerst mich an einen kürbis Here personal pronomen and reflexivpronomen are not matched Du und mich

[@MrLAntrim]

That's the point. The verb erinnern is not always reflexive.

[@manumaheendran2008]

@@MrLAntrim i am sorry i didn't read the above heading

[@MuhammadSaad-ob7fv]

why cant it be Ich wasche seine Hände?

[@fremejoker]

It can. But here it was about using verbs reflexively.

[@eyhangkayangkaya2197]

Wieso ‚‘ sie legt das Baby auf das Sofa? Und nicht ‚ sie legt dem Baby auf das Sofa.‘

[@MrLAntrim]

Das Baby ist das Akkusativobjekt. Das Baby wird hingelegt. Deshalb Akkusativ.

[@gytoser801]

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