Die Flasche geht zurück

Pfand · Alltag & Geld 1 · A2 · 3 min

Germany puts a deposit on many bottles and cans: 25 cents each. Take ten empty bottles to the machine and the receipt to the till, and hear why an empty bottle suddenly has a value. Slow, clear German for practising müssen and können.

What you’ll practise

müssen / können. Say what you must and can do with a deposit bottle.

How to listen

Try it twice. The first time, turn on Listen first in the player: each line stays hidden until it’s spoken. The second time, read along.

Everything you hear is German. Turn on Translation to see the English meaning of the sentence being spoken.

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