| I | ich | |
| you | Du | for adressing a well known person on a private meeting directly |
| you | Sie | for adressing a person or a group on a business meeting
or a stranger directly - the first letter of "Sie" is a capital letter! |
| you | Ihr | for adressing a group of well known people on a
private meeting |
| he | er | talking about a male person - used in the same way
you do it |
| she | sie | talking about a female person - notice! this time
the first letter is not a capital one |
| it | es | used for everything else that is abstract like in
"It was a nice day today.=Es war heute ein schöner Tag "
It is not used for animals, plants and objects as you do in English, only
if the gender of this object is neuter. I give you an example:
we
say:
die Blume = the flower... it is nice = sie ist schön
der Stuhl= the chair...it is big= er ist groß
das Haus= the house...it is small= es ist klein
We have three different genders in grammar (mating could be even more difficult if we humans had this, right? :-)):
male (der...),
female (die...),
neuter (das...).
The only way to get to know this
is to
learn it by heart. There are no rules.
Sorry for that :-)!
|
| we | wir | used in the same way you do it |
| they | sie | talking about a group of people, no matter if
private or business people |
