Lesson 8 - the verb haben

Good morning to you!! 

And before you'll ask why I'm so enthusiastic and why the tone of my voice is so positive (we'll you obviously can't hear that, but still :)) I'll anounce some great news!  - today we're not talking about cases!! Yup, just normal lesson , with a new verb to  be discussed, and virtually no cases :)) 

Maybe now that I wrote it and said it out loud, it doesn't seem to be so awesome news, but again - the verb that we're gonna learn today is really important, and easy to learn and understand at the same time:) 

So today, we're gonna learn how to use and what does the verb "haben" mean.

A small example of what we will be looking at : 

Hast du den Schlüssel?
Ja, ich habe den Schlüssel.

(Do you have the key?)
(Yes, I have the key)

and a new vocabulary that will be helpful :

so the keys, the cars...money, power and fame is missing : )) 

Today we're gonna learn how the present tense of the word "haben" (to have) is used.

So there it goes : 

haben - present tense :

ich habe - I have
du hast   - you have
er hat      - he has

wir haben - we have
ihr habt    - you have
sie haben - they have

That's right , as simple as it is. Let us look at some examples using the phrases, that I like to call "fixed phrases" (although they're not)) : 

Er hat Glück.
Sie hat Erflog.

(He is lucky)
(She succeeds/is successful).

The verb "haben" can be used with an object in the accusative. ..and yeah, I know I said there's gonna be no more "cases" and "der,dem,den" poems, but if you look at the sentence I'm gonna give in a moment even in english, it's clear that when translating to german, some changes have to be made when it comes to noun and the definite article. So the sentence is :

Have you got the car ?
Yes, I have got the car.

in German it would be :
-Hast du den Wagen ? 
- Ja, ich habe den Wagen.

And now let's go through some exercises :

Please translate using the expressions with "haben" 

Exercise 1/4

I have time.
You are lucky. (please use "du")
She has confidence.

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...

and the answers are : 

Exercise 2/4

- We succeed (we are successful)
- You are courageous. (please use "ihr")
- They are perserving. 

...

...

and the answers are : 

in next two exercises, just translate it to german (no need to use "fixed phrases"))
Exercise 3/4 

- Have you got the key ?
- Yes, I have got the key.
- Has he got the car ?
- No, she has got the car.

...

...

and the answers are : 

Exercise 4/4

- Have you got the key ? (please use "ihr" )
- Yes, we have got the key.
- Have they got the car?
- Yes, they have got the car.

...

...

and the answers to the last exercise are : 

Ok, so much for the "haben". I hope you found it useful. As usual, a quote of the day in german is : 

Je weniger die Leute davon wissen, wie Würste und Gesetze gemacht werden, desto besser schlafen sie.
The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep.

   - Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898)

Well mr Bismarck, maybe I don't know much about sausages, but now I know almost everything (wink-wink) about the word "haben":))
Take care everybody and don't forget to have fun:)

Cheers,
Bryvus