Practice

Exercise 26: Numbers and Dates

Exercise 26.1: Write out the following numbers

Write out each number as a German word.

1. 21

2. 35

3. 42

4. 58

5. 64

6. 77

7. 83

8. 99

9. 100

10. 123

11. 256

12. 435

13. 1.000

14. 1.999

15. 2.021

Exercise 26.2: German Festivals and Dates

Write out the dates using the structure der erste, der zweite etc.

1. 1 January – New Year

2. 3 October – German Unity Day

3. 25 December – Christmas

4. 31 December – New Year's Eve

5. 6 December – Nikolaus

6. 14 February – Valentine's Day

7. 1 May – Labour Day

8. 24 December – Christmas Eve

Exercise 26.3: Famous Austrians and Germans

Write down in full when and where these well-known Austrians and Germans were born.

1. Beethoven, Ludwig van, *16/17 December 1770, Bonn

2. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, *27 January 1756, Salzburg

3. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, *28 August 1749, Frankfurt am Main

4. Schiller, Friedrich, *10 November 1759, Marbach am Neckar

5. Einstein, Albert, *14 March 1879, Ulm

6. Bach, Johann Sebastian, *31 March 1685, Eisenach

7. Freud, Sigmund, *6 May 1856, Freiberg

8. Klein, Melanie, *30 March 1882, Vienna

Exercise 26.4: Translation Exercises

Translate the following sentences into German.

1. Today is the sixth of May.

2. The Berlin Wall came down in 1989.

3. I was born on the fifteenth of August.

4. We are going to Berlin on the first of July.

5. My birthday is on the third of October.

6. She lives in Germany since 2020.

7. The meeting is on the twenty-second of November.

8. He was born in nineteen ninety-five.