Today I am talking about a few cool words, which one can use in order to make your sentences better.
They are called “intensifiers”.
Today we are concentrating on the intensifiers that express making things stronger.
Cool music.
The first word on the list for today is “sehr”.
You have probably known this word for a long time,
but in order to understand the other words better,
we have to really know what “sehr” means and how one can use it.
Like all words on the list, “sehr” is used in order to strengthen an adjective, adverb or verb.
“Sehr” means so much as “in great measurements”.
Now I will show you a few examples.
I really liked the ice cream. That is a beautiful picture that is hanging there.
Please. Thank you.
If you want to emphasize something, you can use the word “besonders”.
“Besonders” means “above all” or “particularly”. For example:
The desserts were very good. I especially liked the ice cream.
That is a very beautiful picture. I especially like the trees.
In the winter it gets dark early, but today it is also cloudy.
Therefore it got dark especially early.
It doesn’t always have to be used in a positive manner. For example:
Your hair looks especially ugly today.
A word that is often mixed up with “sehr”, is “echt”.
Although they both can mean “really” in English, “echt” has something to do with reality.
Everything that isn’t replicated, not imitated, not faked, not pretended
or what is really present and not just seeming to exist is “echt”. For example:
That is not a real apple. That is really cool.
I love you. - Really? Is the ring really gold?
Another word for “real” in German is “wirklich”.
One can use “echt” and “wirklich” interchangeably,
but they differ sometimes a bit.
“Echt” is used more often with material objects and “wirklich” is used with non-material. For example:
Teaching German is a real talent.
The comic was very funny.
Mr. Antrim is not really talented.
I love you. - Really? That is really cool.
If something is quite or complete, you can use the word “total”.
With this word you can express that it is not just a part of a thing, but the entire thing.
I totally forgot the test.
This politician is always talking complete nonsense.
I am really excited about the film.
He is completely crazy.
ziemlich - somewhat
Almost the opposite of “total” is “ziemlich”.
One uses this word in order to say that something is to a degree.
That is not the whole thing.
It was somewhat warm today.
Yesterday it was somewhat cold.
You are driving somewhat fast.
My child is somewhat picky, when it comes to food.
That is the list today.
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