German names and Where To Eat Meals

From Duolingo I learned the German word, rat, for advice, and that reminded me of when I saw the word Rathaus in Germany when my husband and I toured the Romantic Road by car. 

German - English Town Hall

Rat - advice (not a rat, but I remember the memory aid I have just devised, he likes advice like a rat. We have a rat. We need advice. When a German says rat, he does not have a rat, he needs advice. Listen to the pronunciation, not like rat in English, more like rart)

Rathaus - town hall (That's British English. Americans say City Hall.)

Wo ist das Rathaus? - where is the town hall?

Gibt es dort ein Restaurant - does it have a restaurant (literally gives it there, dort ist means is there ...? or are there ...?)

dort - there (I remember over there, or even damn, it's over there d o..r t....)

All over Germany, when we were touring, we saw signs to the 

Rathaus in the city centre. The Rathaus was the town hall. It usually had a sensibly priced restaurant or cafeteria in the basement, a historic cellar with antiques, serving local food, promoting local specialities. The perfect place for a tourist to take photos.

The same word, Rathaus is used in Austria and the German speaking cantons of Switzerland.

However, they sometimes use the word 

Gemeindeverwatung - town hall 

verwatung -  admin, department, management

Gemeinde means municipality, community, or local parish (the local government district or village/town itself).

Verwaltung means administration, management, or department.

When you put them together as Gemeindeverwaltung, it translates to municipal administration or the local town hall/council office (the administrative body or building that runs a municipality).

English -  German - 

Remember to use capitals for German nouns.

town hall - Rathaus

Gib mir

Geben Sie mir

Gebt mir

I asked Ask Gemini and got this result.

AI referred me to a You tube video on the subect. On first listening to it I was confused. However, I think if you listen to the video several times it will become clear and help to remember what you have just been taught. To remember anything in a foreign language, as with remembering anything else, such as somebody's name, say it three times, from English to German and fro German to English.

Gib mir deinen Pass (informal singular: give me your passport) 

Geben Sie mir Ihren Pass (formal: give me your passport) 

Gebt mir euren Pass (informal plural: give me your passport)

For plural ("passports"): 

Gib mir deine Pässe (informal singular) 

Geben Sie mir Ihre Pässe (formal) 

Gebt mir eure Pässe (informal plural).

My name is Angela - Mein Name ist Angela / Ich heiße Angela

Wie heißt das? (informal / general)  

Wie nennt man das? - What does one call that? (literally what calls one that) 

Ask Gemini explains in more detail in response to my question

verbs nennt

Nennt comes from the German verb nennen, which means to name or to call.

Here is how it is conjugated in the present tense:

• ich nenne (I call)

• du nennst (you call - informal singular)

• er/sie/es nennt (he/she/it calls)

• wir nennen (we call)

• ihr nennt (you call - informal plural)

• sie/Sie nennen (they/you call - formal)

In the phrase "Wie nennt man das?", it uses nennt because man (meaning "one" or "people in general") acts as a third-person singular subject, just like er, sie, or es.

I think ask Gemini is a wonderful resource for learning languages

Useful Resouces for Learning German

Duolingo.com

Translate Google 

Wikivoyage phrasebook German

AI - Ask Gemini

simpler version in the previous post.