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Jun 2022
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22: Grün, lang und aus Metall | Green, l...

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Colors, materials, and shapes & gender of nouns: words with endings -t and -e.

The furniture store apprentice cleans up and wonders who wants to buy such an ugly wallpaper. This is embarrassing because at that moment, Paul comes. He hears this and says he wants to buy the wallpaper. Tim really seems to be angry. Or why does he ignore Paul?

Transcript, lesson and extras: german-stories.com/22-gruen-lang-und-aus-metall-colors-materials-and-shapes

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