German word of the day: anklopfen

Luis and I started up our German classes again last night. Apparently there was some miscommunication with the Poughkeepsie City Schools’ Continuing Education team, though. We’re enrolled for Intermediate German (as opposed to Beginner German, which we took in the fall), but it seems that there is a Beginner 2 class that we missed.

Long story short, we’ve skipped about 10 lessons, covering unimportant concepts like the past tense, irregular verbs, and the accusative and dative cases. Um, yeah. Totally lost for most of the 90 minutes of class last night.

But our teacher is giving us a new word to learn every day, via email. I’m going to try to blog mine, so that I have a history of them. Today’s word is a separable verb, anklopfen, which means “to knock (at)”.

Examples:
Der Brieftraeger klopft an. The letter carrier knocks (at the door).
Jemand klopft an die Tür. Someone is knocking at the door.