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This video offers a comprehensive explanation of the B1 level German two-part conjunction "entweder ... oder." It covers its usage with real-life examples, focusing on sentence structure and when or how it should be applied in different situations, such as with the same or different verbs. The video also includes a bonus tip.

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Let's talk about a useful German Conjunction.

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entweder Although In English...

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either or Which means we have...

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2 hearts.

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In Deutsch nennen wir es eine sogenannte two part Conjunction, eine Zwei.

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teilige Konjunktion.

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which means you have...

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two alternatives to choose from We have Option Ah.

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und Option B either.

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or Entweder Odo.

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What's special about this conjunction, it can be used in two different situations.

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In both situations, we have to choose between between A or B.

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B.

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but you can use it either with just Wonder?

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or Meaning, the same verb in Both sent.

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parts or with to different.

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Later.

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groups.

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Let's start with...

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the same verb which is not only the more Common Option.

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But...

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also the easier.

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one.

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Option A ist ein Café und Option B ist ein Café.

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and B ist...

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Eine That's it.

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team.

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So you could say, for example, Ich...

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Trinke morgens.

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Entweder einen Kaffee.

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Oder...

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einen teeth.

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Ich trinke morgens entweder einen Kaffee OODA einen teeth Thank you In the morning,

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I drink either a Koffee.

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or a This morgens, this is there additionally, this means this is actually

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an adverb.

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means every morning.

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Morgan.

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In terms of sentence structure, It's quite straightforward.

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We have a normal main clause.

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which means the conjugated verb is on 6.

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position.

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Ich trinken.

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den Morgans, And then we have Entweder.

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Option.

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Ah?

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einen Kaffee, Oder...

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plus Option B which is einen Tea.

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Now you can actually also start this sentence with n to be though.

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And then he whooped.

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entweder trinke ich morgens einen Kaffee order einen tea.

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So you see the ending is actually exactly the same.

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But in the beginning.

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We change kind of the position with the subject and this end.

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Twitter.

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The more common option is starting with the subject.

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like an option.

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A but you have the option also to kind of change the sentence structure and Start

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with Entweder.

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And then the verb.

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trinke und Denn the subject comes right.

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after the verb.

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before this Morgan's This Time information.

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Thank you Machen wir ein paar...

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André Beispiele.

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Let's do some other examples.

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examples.

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Das ist Gabi und Gabi, she needs to go.

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to see a dentist, but she's not so amused about this.

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So.

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Gabi geht entweder am Montag oder am Montag or the am Dienstag zum Zahnarzt.

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Thanks for watching Gabi geht entweder Am Montag?

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Option A.

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or the on Dienstag Option B.

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Zum...

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Zahnarzt Gabi is going to the dentist either on Monday or Tuesday.

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two famous german cts First one on the left is Köln with the famous Kölner Dom?

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and the bridge and This one here is Berlin Zu Kürze am Wochenende könnten wir

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entweder nach...

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Berlin oder nach Köln fahren.

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Am Wochenende...

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könnten wir entweder Nacht.

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Berlin?

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Oder...

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Noch.

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Köln fahren.

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We could either go to Berlin or Cologne.

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this Weekend.

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Thank you Another option.

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Das ist Julia.

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and she wants to buy either a new cell phone or a new bicycle.

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Auf Deutsch entweder kauft Julia ein neues Fahrrad oder ein neues Handy.

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So here we start with Entweder.

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Entweder kauft Julia ein neues Fahrrad or the ein No, yes.

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Handy Julia will either buy a new bicycle or 8 new cell phone.

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This was Situation 1.

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Let's go to Situation 2 when we use to different verbs.

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We have still option A and option B.

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For this example here, we take option R is.

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Home office?

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Arbeiten von zu Hause und Option B ist Ein Normal Office, ein...

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Büro So you could say, for example, am Freitag arbeite ich entweder von zu Hause

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OODA

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Ich gehe ins Büro.

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Am Freitag arbeite ich entweder von zu Hause Oder ich gehe ins...

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Büro On Friday, I either work from home or go to The Office.

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We actually also use home office in German, home office this expression as

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well.

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could change the sentence.

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which is also commonly used to something like this on Friday.

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mache ich Also mit machen, very simple, mache ich entweder Homeoffice all the Gehe

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ins.

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Büro.

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In terms of sentence structure here, Thank you Wir haben zwei verschiedene Verben.

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Verb Nummer 1 ist arbeiten und das Verb Nummer 2 ist arbeiten.

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2 ist gehen.

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So zwei verschiedene Verben.

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two different verbs.

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And...

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We still have two options.

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Von zu Hause ist Option A und Ins Büro ist...

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Option B Namu desu.

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Special here in this sentence, you see this ich there.

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I put.

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das in Brack- Why?

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Because you can actually drop.

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bit.

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You can omit it.

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The reason is because the subject is the same in both sentence parts or you can

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omit it in the second.

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part.

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and This is also the more common.

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version because it's short.

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filter.

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So Both is correct.

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You can say am Freitag arbeite ich entweder von zu Hause oder Ich gehe ins

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Büro.

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or You can say, am Freitag arbeite ich entweder von zu Hause oder...

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Gehe ins...

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Büro Both are correct again.

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Without this ich, the second ich is more commonly used.

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some other Excel.

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Buzz on the rape.

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by spiel.

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Das bin ich beim Kochen.

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Heute Abend koche ich entweder Nudeln Ich bestelle.

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Eine Pizza.

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Heute Abend...

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Koche ich entweder Nudeln oder ich bestelle eine.

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Pizza.

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Tonight I will either...

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cook pasta or order a pizza.

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Two different verbs.

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Kochen.

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und Bestellen!

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Option A sind Nudeln.

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und Optionen.

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ist.

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So.

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Here is Important side note in terms of Nudeln.

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Nudeln are literally translated noodles.

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normal flat noodles.

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But in most situations when we use NUDELN, we actually talk about pasta in general.

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So this could be either Spaghetti.

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fettuccine, linguine, dagli a telle!

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Pardelle!

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Cup!

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Bellini, Cermenolini, toy!

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Chorini, of course.

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the last two ones, they do not exist.

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But just to tell you, When we talk about Nudeln in most situations we just mean

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Pasta!

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in channel Doesn't only have to be Italian pasta, it can also be any kind of flat

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noodles like ramen or udon noodles from Asian countries.

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So Everything is.

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possible.

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Ein anderes Beispiel.

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Du kannst mir entweder eine Nachricht schicken OODA Thank you Du kannst mich

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später anrufen.

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Du kannst mir entweder Thank you Eine Nachricht schicken.

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Odin Du kannst mich später...

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anrufen.

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Here, special, we see actually there are three words.

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because we use a model verb Können.

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Das Modalverb.

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können.

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And this?

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is you also see it here again in the brackets.

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Here you can drop this Second, du kannst...

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also because it's exactly the same like in the first part.

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The more common version is, du kannst mir entweder eine Nachricht schicken oder...

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Mich Shh.

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beta.

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anrufen.

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You can either send me a message or call me late.

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term.

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and for some vacation.

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Plants Im Juli fliegt Moritz Entweder nach Spass.

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Panien?

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oder er bleibt.

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Zuhause.

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Im Juli fliegt Moritz entweder nach Spanien Oder...

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Yep.

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bleibt.

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zu Hause.

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or Without this air, bleibt zu Hause.

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In July, Moritz will either fly to Spain, or stay at home.

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And again, you can drop this here because it's the same subject in both.

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Sentence Parts Moritz and air is the same.

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person Now, what about when we have to.

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two different subjects.

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abgeschickt ist.

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Possible?

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Yes, and that's our...

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Bonus tip!

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Different Subjects, verschiedene Subjekte.

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Not really common.

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The more common version is definitely with just one subject or the same subject in

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both sentence parts.

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But it is possible.

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Zum Beispiel.

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Thank you.

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Entweder fahre ich zu...

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Dir?

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Oder du kommst.

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Zu mir.

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Entweder fahre ich zu dir.

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or the tool.

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kommst.

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zu mir.

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Ich und Du.

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two different subjects and also two different verbs.

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Thanks for either Bye.

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Go to your place.

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or you come.

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to might.

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place.

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or Du gehst entweder jetzt nach Hause Oder wir fahren später.

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zusammen.

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Du gehst entweder jetzt nach Hause Oder wir fahren später.

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zusammen.

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First part of the subject is Du!

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Second part, the subject ist.

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Bier.

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You either go home.

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Now or we can go Later.

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together.

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And another situation which I want to point out specifically is, when we talk

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about drohungen.

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Drohungen are Threat.

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Thanks for watching.

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And here we often use this.

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Konniku.

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Entweder order as well.

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Zum Beispiel.

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Parents, when they angry, talk to their child.

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Entweder du isst jetzt dein...

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Essen.

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Oder gehst sofort ins Bett.

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Entweder du.

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Isst jetzt dein Essen oder gehst sofort ins Bett.

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Either you eat your food.

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right now or you go to bed immediately.

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or a more general situation Entweder du kommst jetzt mit.

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Oder ich fahre allein.

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nach Hause.

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Entweder du kommst jetzt mit.

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Oder ich fahre allein.

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nach Hause.

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Either you come with me, you come along with me, or I go home.

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alone.

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And if you want to have a less detailed but more compact version of all important

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zweiteilige Konjunktionen We have here a video about them.

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as well.

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Vielen Dank fürs Zuschauen.

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I hope you learned something.

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I hope to see you again.

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Bis zum nächsten Mal.

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Tschüss und...

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Bye bye.