Environment and Local Area: Vocabulary and Compound Nouns
Learn German words for where people live and the environment, then practise compound nouns and location phrases.
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Where people live 🌍
This topic covers homes, towns, villages, countryside and the environment. German is especially good at making compound nouns, where smaller words join together.
Key local-area words 🔑
Learn the German nouns with capital letters.
leben or wohnen? 🏠
Both can translate as live, but they do slightly different jobs.
Match the local word 🔗
- das Haus
- die Wohnung
- die Stadt
- das Dorf
- house
- flat
- town or city
- village
Which is environment? 🎯
Which German word means environment?
- die Umwelt
- die Umgebung
- die Landschaft
- die Energie
Compound nouns 💡
German often joins nouns together. **Wohnzimmer** combines wohnen/live with Zimmer/room to mean living room. The final part usually controls the main meaning and article.
Match the environment words 🔀
- die Umwelt
- die Natur
- die Energie
- der Müll
- environment
- nature
- energy
- rubbish
Correct local-area German ✅
Select the TWO correct German phrases.
- ich wohne in der Stadt
- das Wohnzimmer
- die umwelt
- ich gehe in der Stadt
Build the location sentence 🪜
An interactive activity.
Complete the local-area sentences 🧩
House is das _____. Flat is die _____. Environment is die _____. Living room is das _____.
Spot environment words 🖍️
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Motion into town 📝
Which sentence means: I go into town?
- ich gehe in die Stadt
- ich wohne in der Stadt
- ich gehe in der Stadt
- ich gehe in das Dorf
Choose the local phrase 🧭
An interactive activity.
Your local area ✍️
An interactive activity.