German I Learned Today: how do we say as if in German

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Welcome to German I learned today. I'm learning German in Berlin and every day I share one thing I just learned in class to remember it better and hopefully learning German together with you.

[00:00:09]>> [music] >> Neither English nor German is my mother tongue, so there may be some mistakes.

[00:00:14]Please feel free to correct to me. Today let's talk about a very useful German structure. So as if. It means as if. You can use it when something looks true or sounds true, but it's actually not true. But let's take a look at the basic structure. For example, he acts as if he couldn't speak German, but actually he can speak German. Here we have a very important grammar point.

[00:00:46][music] After as if, we usually use conjunctive two, which means would plus infinitive. Here are some common verbs with >> [music] >> as if. First, so to do as if means to pretend as if. She acts as if she doesn't understand anything. She acts as if she understands nothing. Second, so to look as if means to look as if. The classroom looks as if it were big. Second, so to sound as if to sound as if. The CD player sounds as if it's going to break soon. Next, so to sound as if to seem as if. It seems as if the teacher had a lot of uh experience. So to seem as if to seem as if. It seems as if the teacher had a lot of uh experience. Here comes another very common structure. Here comes another very common structure. A German also loves so to look as if.

[00:01:58]So to look as if. She looks as She looks as if she were rich. But in reality, maybe she's not. Pay attention to a very important grammar point. After [music] aus ob, the verb goes to the end. Now, how would you say this sentence in German? He looks as if he were tired.

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