Diamat's Communist Final Exam

[Diamat]

Hier ist eure Abschlussprüfung. I have decided to utilize the following format for the final exam because I believe it to be more effective than simply giving you an essay to write:

This is a cooperative final exam. ALL STUDENTS must participate. Every student should answer a few questions. No student should answer too many. Feel free to ask me questions. This exam is not to grade you but to help you. Hence, I will give you guys input and help where necessary.

Instructions (READ):
1. Answer the questions in order.
2. Answer no more than three questions at a time.
3. Once you have answered these questions, wait for your classmates to check over your answers, correct them, or approve them. Then edit your original post accordingly.
4. Then give another student the chance to be the first one to answer the next series of 3 questions.

Note: Students who participate the most will receive extra points toward their final grade. If you did not do well on your last exam, this is your chance.

This exam will end eight days from the date of this posting.


Answer the following questions in German

1. How would you say “how are you” to a superior?
2. Translate “do you know the boy?” (Hint: this is an Accusative sentence)
3. Translate “I know the teacher. He is called Diamat.”
4. Provide at least 3 ways to say “goodbye” in German.
5. Translate “She has money. You (superior) have no money. They have money.”
6. How would you say that you have time today?
7. Translate “Where is Diamat? Who is Diamat?”
8. Translate “Are you (plural) girls?”

9. Respond in German: Was machst du heute?
10. Tell me something that you don’t like to do in a complete German sentence.
11. Make a sentence with the German word “wann.”
12. Translate “How often do you watch TV?”
13. Respond to the above question in German.
14. Translate “Most of all, I like to play soccer.”
15. Translate “I rather do my homework.”

16. Translate “He has an apple.”
17. Translate “We make a salad.”
18. Translate “I’m not hungry.”
19. Translate “I have a cake.”
20. As a waiter in a restaurant, how would you ask the customer what he or she would like?
21. Translate “I’ll have a soup.”
22. Translate “The present is for you (singular).”
23. Translate “The present is for you (plural).”
24. Translate “Without you.”
25. Translate “I love you.” (note: to love = lieben)
26. How would you say that something tastes sweet?
27. Translate “Does this salad taste good?”
28. Translate “Do you know this man?”
29. Translate “Which sport do you like to do?”
30. Translate “Every woman likes to eat.”
31. Translate “This Saturday I read.”
32. Translate “The waiter is terrible.”
33. Translate “Every Sunday I read.”
34. Translate “I eat cake on Mondays.”

[Vaðarholmr]

Let's see if I have understood the concept;

1. How would you say “how are you” to a superior?
Correct answer: Wie geht es Ihnen?
Honest answer: Wie geht es dir?

2. Translate “do you know the boy?” (Hint: this is an Accusative sentence)
Kennen Sie den Knaben?

3. Translate “I know the teacher. He is called Diamat.”
Ich weiß der Lehrer. Er heißt Diamat

[Diamat]

Yes, that's how it would work. Next, your classmates will check over your answers and make corrections where necessary. Then, once everything is corrected, another student will answer the next series of 3 questions.

[Kaiser Leonidas]

So do we have to correct any mistakes In Luna's answer before we can answer the next set of three?

The only thing I would change is the last answer, I would've put "Er heißt Diamat", instead of "heiße".

[Diamat]

Yes, first correct, then the next 3 questions.

Additional Instructions:
I will mark in green questions that have been answered correctly. Incorrect answers will be marked in red. So once you see that all three questions are green, you know that you can do the next three questions.

[Legio]

3. Translate “I know the teacher. He is called Diamat.”
Ich kenne der Lehrer. Er heiβt Diamat.

Spoiler for More answers: 

4. Provide at least 3 ways to say “goodbye” in German.
Auf Wiedersehen, Bis dann, Wiedersehen, Ciao.
5. Translate “She has money. You (superior) have no money. They have money.”
Sie hast Geld. Du hast nicht Geld. Sie haben Geld.

Spoiler for If correcting Vatterholm doesn't count towards my three, here's another question: 

6. How would you say that you have time today?
Ich habe Zeit.

[Diamat]

Correcting does not count toward the 3 but is important.

Hint: number 3 is still wrong. Anyone know why?

[Legio]

Are we using the wrong verb?

[Diamat]

Chloë used the correct verb. The mistake lies with the grammatical case of the first sentence.

[Legio]

What do you mean? Is the verb in the wrong tense?

[Diamat]

Lehrer is a direct object.

[Kaiser Leonidas]

Should it be "Ich kenne den Lehrer. Er heiβt Diamat."? If it's the direct object then it should be in the accusative case right?

[Lord Thesaurian]

Spoilered in case everyone is working on 3 still; I won't be around much due to my apparent need to utilize my ability to subsidize and support those who have greater need and less ability in real life, so I want to get my two cents in

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

4. Bis später, bis dann, Wiedersehen! Auf Wiedersehen!

5. Sie hat Geld. Sie haben kein Geld. Sie haben Geld.

6. Ich habe heute Zeit

Also, I've decided I have tremendous need and no ability, so you will all have to give me full credit for the entire exam because I don't have sufficient ability to contribute. Those of you who feel similarly inclined can join me in "Fidel Stalin Mao's Jolly Olde Hooligans." The more of us there are in the gang, the easier it will be to claim our property from the People's Kommmunial Stockpile of Points and Goodies. Vive la Nouvelle Revolution!

[Diamat]

Should it be "Ich kenne den Lehrer. Er heiβt Diamat."? If it's the direct object then it should be in the accusative case right?

Correct!

Other examples would be:
Ich kenne die Frau. = I know the woman.
Ich kenne ihn. = I know him.
Ich kenne mich. = I know myself.
Ich kenne dieses Auto. = I know this car.

[Diamat]

Legio_Italica is right. Someone else may do the next 3 questions. Oh, and LI, if you can, please continue to help with the other questions in case there are mistakes. Other students can benefit from your input.

[Legio]

7. Translate “Where is Diamat? Who is Diamat?”
Wo ist Diamat? Wer ist Diamat?
8. Translate “Are you (plural) girls?”
Seid ihr Ma(umlaut)dchen? (informal)
Sind sie Ma(umlaut)dchen? (formal)
9. Respond in German: Was machst du heute?
Ich lese A Barthes Reader.

[Diamat]

Correct. However, "Sind sie Mädchen?" is not formal. It means "Are they girls?"

[Kaiser Leonidas]

Correct. However, "Sind sie Mädchen?" is not formal. It means "Are they girls?"

Would you just need to capitalise the 'sie'? So it'd be "Sind Sie Mädchen?".

As they're all marked as correct though, here are the next three questions:

10. Tell me something that you don’t like to do in a complete German sentence.
Ich mag es nicht Hausaufgaben machen.

11. Make a sentence with the German word “wann.”
Wann ist die nächste Skype-Anruf?

12. Translate “How often do you watch TV?”
Ich weiß nicht fernsehen sehr oft.

[Diamat]

Would you just need to capitalise the 'sie'? So it'd be "Sind Sie Mädchen?".

The thing is, this is not possible. One does not ask one person "Are you girls?" You can only ask "Sind Sie/bist du ein Mädchen" or "Seid ihr Mädchen"? Even then, the former is an awkward question, and will only ever appear in Pokemon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTueB...tailpage#t=155

[Legio]

10. Tell me something that you don’t like to do in a complete German sentence.
Ich mache Sport nicht gern.
11. Make a sentence with the German word “wann.”
Wann ist es?
12. Translate “How often do you watch TV?”
Wie oft du spielst Fernsehen?