The Charm of German: How "Modalpartikeln" Enhance Expression & How to sound more German!

In German we have those so called "Modalpartikeln" which are these small words you will hear all the time when we talk. But what do they actually mean?
They can change the meaning of the entire sentence and express feelings, emphasize intentions, show approval or disapproval and reinforce or weaken you statements.
So you can see they are quite versatile and unfortunately also usually have more than just 1 meaning. Since most other languages do not have "Modalpartikeln" they are also quite difficult and sometimes even impossible to translate.
In this video you can learn about the Top 10 German Modalpartikeln. How and when they can be used along with lots of example sentences.
Keep in mind that you do need to be able to use them until B2/C1 level. But understanding their meanings will help you a lot in improving your German listening skills. And if you can include them in your talking, you will definitely sound more German! 😊💪💪
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0:00 Modalpartikeln: 3 examples
1:33 What are "Modalpartikeln" exactly?
2:58 aber
4:22 bloß
5:38 denn
6:19 wohl
7:24 eigentlich
8:56 ja
10:20 doch
11:52 mal
13:24 vielleicht
14:24 schon
15:30 Bonustipp
Viel Spaß und bis bald
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    2 ай бұрын

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    2 ай бұрын

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    @fionajane2665Ай бұрын

    I've always wondered about those little words...Great explanations. You're a very good teacher! 😎👍

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    You are the best teacher… vielen dank

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    @yourgermanteacher

    2 ай бұрын

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    @enci67062 ай бұрын

    💖thanks always Luzi, could you please also make videos about words/dialogues used in office or how to write business letters? Thank you 💖

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    @pbissell12 ай бұрын

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    @yourgermanteacher

    2 ай бұрын

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    @Yehezkiel_TiptonАй бұрын

    Das war doch ein tolles Video! Vielen dank!

  • @JohanaVajt
    @JohanaVajt2 ай бұрын

    Ich hasse diese Modulpartikeln, weil ich nie sicher bin, was das bedeutet! 😅 Aber danke für das Video 😊

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    @yourgermanteacher

    2 ай бұрын

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    2 ай бұрын

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    @mohamadhammoud12422 ай бұрын

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    @yourgermanteacher

    2 ай бұрын

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    2 ай бұрын

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    @carldavis14072 ай бұрын

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    2 ай бұрын

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    @yourgermanteacher

    2 ай бұрын

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    @sandradalvalaimer910029 күн бұрын

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    2 ай бұрын

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    2 ай бұрын

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    @yourgermanteacher

    2 ай бұрын

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    Your videos are always informative and very helpful. It’s easier to understand especially for us beginners.😊 I appreciate you guys for putting a lot of effort and time into it. Hope you can make a video(s) for different sentence structures where they thought us Normaler Satze, Satze Inversion, Ja/Nein Frage, und W-Frage from the basics as well as when the modal verbs, zeitagen, and adverbieren is/are added to the sentences. Sometimes it’s still confusing especially when the last verb is changing from infinitiv, präfix, oder partizip II. Vielen dank!🫶🏻

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    @delaram2489Ай бұрын

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  • @yourgermanteacher

    @yourgermanteacher

    2 ай бұрын

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    2 ай бұрын

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    this makes me more confident. I was wandering why these doch, aber and denn were comming from, and now i know it. Thank you!

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    @NeSchtirliz2 ай бұрын

    Dieses Video ist aber gut!!! Ausgezeichnet! Ihr Unterricht hat mir die Schönheit der deutschen Sprache erschlossen.

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    2 ай бұрын

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    2 ай бұрын

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  • @josepinard30
    @josepinard302 ай бұрын

    Danke Luzi. Ich wollte dich fragen , woher genau aus der Schweiz kommst du? Außer Hochdeutsch, was für ein Dialekt sprichst du?

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    @yourgermanteacher

    2 ай бұрын

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    @peternabutanyi60532 ай бұрын

    Das Video war ja klar! Vielen Danke.

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    2 ай бұрын

    👍😊

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    2 ай бұрын

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    @Makhdom790Ай бұрын

    Useful ever

  • @KwanLowe
    @KwanLowe2 ай бұрын

    Thanks!

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    @yourgermanteacher

    2 ай бұрын

    Herzlichen Dank Kwan 🙏🙏😊

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    Please post more topics of b1 😊

  • @alpacino9177
    @alpacino91772 ай бұрын

    Prima- danke!

  • @yourgermanteacher

    @yourgermanteacher

    2 ай бұрын

    Gerne 😊

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  • @yourgermanteacher

    @yourgermanteacher

    2 ай бұрын

    Great job!

  • @DiggerWhoops
    @DiggerWhoops17 күн бұрын

    That's the word I've been looking for as I struggle to learn German....."charming." I think that's why I hang in there. It is, indeed, a charming challenge.

  • @yourgermanteacher

    @yourgermanteacher

    16 күн бұрын

    😊😊

  • @Shifaa392
    @Shifaa392Ай бұрын

    danke😍😍😍😍

  • @sushmisushmila3611
    @sushmisushmila36112 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much for this video. Can you please make a video on "difference between war und wurde" it is extremely confusing.

  • @user-wz6oo9bq5j
    @user-wz6oo9bq5j2 ай бұрын

    I didn't see all the videos about the topic but this is the best IMHO

  • @yourgermanteacher

    @yourgermanteacher

    2 ай бұрын

    🙏😊

  • @user-wz6oo9bq5j

    @user-wz6oo9bq5j

    2 ай бұрын

    @@yourgermanteacher Ich habe nicht alle Videos über dieses Thema geschaut. Allerdings meiner Meinung nach ist dieses Video eigentlich das Beste. (Wenn ich versuche, diesen Satz zu übersetzen) übersetzen) . 🙃😅

  • @monicavaquerano6271
    @monicavaquerano62712 ай бұрын

    Vielen Dank für die klare Erklärung! Manchmal wissen nicht einmal die Deutschen, wie dieses Thema zu erklären

  • @yourgermanteacher

    @yourgermanteacher

    2 ай бұрын

    😊👍 es ist auch nicht einfach zu erklären 😔

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    Grüß Gott. Lutzi mein Schnuckel heute Du siehst Du bloss doch herrlich aus.🎉.Ich hätte Dich wohl beinahe vergessen aber bist Du wieder da! Spannend, daß ich B1 B2 D3 oder F8 ich wahrscheinlich erreicht habe LOL. Ich wünsche Dear einen schönen Tag noch .Wirklich pech, daß Du hete bist! Warmer bruderliche Grüße aus Florida ❤

  • @yourgermanteacher

    @yourgermanteacher

    2 ай бұрын

    🙃🙏 Grüße zurück

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    ❤❤❤❤❤ from Bangladesh 🙂

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    @sushant69482 ай бұрын

    Seit einem Jahr folge ich diesem Kanal. Laut meiner persönlichen Erfahrung, kann ich ja es sagen, dass dieser Kanal eigentlich toll ist. Wie ist mein Satz?😁

  • @ImranSahir1
    @ImranSahir1Ай бұрын

    There's a substitute for „mal” in Urdu and many other languages spoken in the Subcontinent. The word is "ذرا - zarra", which can translate to English "a little", but it's complicated like "mal". While it can be used in sentences like "turn down the music a little", other times it just doesn't follow the "a little " logic, and sounds more like "mal" in essence. Examples: Zarra ye dyna (give me that): if we translate it to "a little" of English here, the sentence would sound awkward "give this a little", but if we translate it to German , it would convey the meaning properly "Gib mir mal das". I am not a linguist, but I think it's a similar expression, that is found both in German and these Asian languages.

  • @rdbury507
    @rdbury5072 ай бұрын

    Just watched this for the second time. Another good one is 'nur' for demanding an answer to a question or that something be done. "Was ist nur los?" - "What is going on here? (I must know.)"

  • @unioncityman63
    @unioncityman632 ай бұрын

    I did understand the main part of what you were covering/teaching in this video but, unfortunately I still get lost trying to remember what the words. Do find myself being able to read German better than understanding spoken.

  • @vishaldhondal7253
    @vishaldhondal72532 ай бұрын

    Can we use this in Schreiben Test?

  • @Yazoon_S
    @Yazoon_S2 ай бұрын

    Such great video! ❤ I have a question, according to TeKaMoLo, isn't the phrase supposed to be: "Komm nicht zu spät bloß" instead of "Komm bloß nicht zu spät" as Temporals are before Modals? 🤔

  • @yourgermanteacher

    @yourgermanteacher

    2 ай бұрын

    🙏😊 No it’s only possible like in the video.

  • @alisashevchenko2147
    @alisashevchenko21472 ай бұрын

    Grüezi😊 Wann gibt Luzi uns denn eine Schweizerdeutschstunde?😅 Aber... Wo sind "gar" und "halt" denn aus der Vorschau?🫢

  • @yourgermanteacher

    @yourgermanteacher

    2 ай бұрын

    Kommt noch 😉

  • @cherryflower455
    @cherryflower4552 ай бұрын

    I like German videos

  • @persiathiest1963
    @persiathiest19632 ай бұрын

    Thank you for your dedication. I hate this gender-obsessed language but have to learn it for my survival and your work is making it a lot easier.

  • @yourgermanteacher

    @yourgermanteacher

    2 ай бұрын

    👍😊

  • @waynehampson9569
    @waynehampson95692 ай бұрын

    Just as a coincidence I learnt the word "spannend" on Duolingo and a few of the uses.

  • @slagnatorti
    @slagnatorti2 ай бұрын

    Können wir eigentlich und denn nutzen,wenn wir siezen möchten?

  • @benjaminnwaogu3049
    @benjaminnwaogu30492 ай бұрын

    Can one use them in written German?

  • @muldidarwis3784
    @muldidarwis378419 күн бұрын

    Please make some video B2 grammatic…

  • @wolkenbleu
    @wolkenbleu2 ай бұрын

    Are these modalpartikeln used in more formal or informal speech?

  • @yourgermanteacher

    @yourgermanteacher

    2 ай бұрын

    Both

  • @graceamz3908
    @graceamz39082 ай бұрын

    ❤🎉

  • @AssiaAdem-cf9bf
    @AssiaAdem-cf9bf2 ай бұрын

    ❤❤🎉

  • @ESODaily
    @ESODaily2 ай бұрын

    Vielen Dank nochmal, aber das ist aber stressig! Warum so vielen wörtern? Ich fühl bin ich im die Film Dude where's my car? und denn? und denn? und denn...und denn

  • @jenm1
    @jenm1Ай бұрын

    Ahhh I’ve been using vielleicht so incorrectly. I always meant wohl when I said vielleicht. 😢

  • @Helena220575
    @Helena2205752 ай бұрын

    I always thought that "vielleicht" means "maybe"... 🤔 Aber vielleicht hat vielleicht verschiedene Bedeutungen.

  • @yourgermanteacher

    @yourgermanteacher

    2 ай бұрын

    Genau 😉

  • @davidrama5484
    @davidrama54842 ай бұрын

    This confused me a lot when I started bc I saw sentences having doch in the middle when that was not the meaning I was taught

  • @traveladventure021
    @traveladventure021Ай бұрын

    Aber Danke

  • @ottosaxo
    @ottosaxo2 ай бұрын

    Mal kurz = mal eben. Auch schon gehört, aber noch nicht selbst gesagt : "Gib mir mal gerade die Zange."

  • @angelstefan5352
    @angelstefan53522 ай бұрын

    Diese Modalpartikeln sind jetzt ein bisschen zu schwer für mich und für jetzt sprehe ich leiber ohne. Ich habe Deutsch nur für fünf Monaten gelernt. Diese Sprache ist nicht einfach 😢 aber Tag pro Tag kann ich besser sprechen. Oder!? 😅

  • @yourgermanteacher

    @yourgermanteacher

    2 ай бұрын

    💪💪💪👍

  • @natavanhuseynova4959
    @natavanhuseynova49592 ай бұрын

    👌🤗🙏🍀

  • @chadb7694
    @chadb76942 ай бұрын

    Danke und Gruesse aus NY....I've met quite a few (German speaking) Swiss and many don't seem to enjoy speaking Hochdeutsch. Some say it feels foreign even to them. And I'm told dialects, for example, from Bern to Zurich aren't even mutually intelligible. Not sure how anyone communicates well there.

  • @yourgermanteacher

    @yourgermanteacher

    2 ай бұрын

    👍😊 Gerne. Yes there are quite some different dialects in the. Swiss German parts. But no worries… they do understand each other without problem. 😊

  • @xiomaramedin5668
    @xiomaramedin56682 ай бұрын

    Hello Luzi am liste info to thé News about an earthquake in Taiwan? Is there where you Stay ? If so Hope you are ok ! If not thé. Just to say hello!😊

  • @paulharvey7278
    @paulharvey72782 ай бұрын

    doch -- definitely the hardest word in German. It means A, B, and C, and sometimes also D and F 🤣 kinda like du coup en français !

  • @Morpheux1

    @Morpheux1

    2 ай бұрын

    "Zu" means pretty much anything you want it to.

  • @poonam_punj
    @poonam_punj2 ай бұрын

    Bitte sei mein Lehrer 🥺

  • @user-ug5no6rd3q
    @user-ug5no6rd3q2 ай бұрын

    Das ist vielleicht ein toller Kanal! Mir wurde es vorschlagen, zu abonnieren, aber ich zögerte sich...Ich bin vielleicht ein Idiot, it's true!

  • @yourgermanteacher

    @yourgermanteacher

    2 ай бұрын

    😂👍

  • @user-ug5no6rd3q

    @user-ug5no6rd3q

    2 ай бұрын

    @@yourgermanteacher Aber ich mache schon Fortschritte! ( I hope it's true...)

  • @veldrensavoth7119
    @veldrensavoth71192 ай бұрын

    Deutschland Fußballspiel sehen?

  • @stephenbrophy4794
    @stephenbrophy479420 күн бұрын

    “I go buy groceries little quick” isn’t correct English. I’ve never heard the expression “little quick” before. I don’t think it exists.