🇩🇪 German Emergencies & Health
The twelve phrases you hope you'll never need — help, doctor, pharmacy, allergies. Learn them once; they matter most. Read them below — then actually say them: recognising a phrase and producing it out loud are different skills, and only one helps you in the moment.
| English | German |
|---|---|
| Help! | Hilfe! |
| Call the police! | Rufen Sie die Polizei! |
| Call an ambulance! | Rufen Sie einen Krankenwagen! |
| I need a doctor | Ich brauche einen Arzt |
| The pharmacy | Die Apotheke |
| The hospital | Das Krankenhaus |
| I feel sick | Mir ist schlecht |
| It hurts here | Es tut hier weh |
| I'm allergic | Ich bin allergisch |
| I lost my passport | Ich habe meinen Pass verloren |
| My phone was stolen | Mein Handy wurde gestohlen |
| It's an emergency | Es ist ein Notfall |
How to make these stick
- Say each phrase out loud three times — your mouth learns separately from your eyes.
- Rehearse the scene: imagine the café or the street corner and act out both sides.
- Then use them in a real conversation — Yap gives you a 30-second spoken role-play with an AI tutor that responds, corrects gently, and never judges.
More German phrases
Greetings & BasicsOrdering Food & DrinksAsking for DirectionsNumbers 1–10Shopping & MoneySmall Talk & IntroductionsDays & Telling TimeHotel & Check-in