🇩🇪 German Greetings & Basics
The polite essentials — hello, thank you, sorry. Twelve phrases that set the tone of every conversation you'll ever have. 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 |
|---|---|
| Hello | Hallo |
| Good morning | Guten Morgen |
| Good evening | Guten Abend |
| Goodbye | Auf Wiedersehen |
| Please | Bitte |
| Thank you | Danke |
| You're welcome | Gern geschehen |
| Yes | Ja |
| No | Nein |
| Excuse me | Entschuldigung |
| I'm sorry | Es tut mir leid |
| How are you? | Wie geht's? |
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
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