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Hobby

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Ein Hobby macht man in seiner freien Zeit besonders gerne.

A hobby is something you particularly enjoy doing in your free time.

Das ist also anders als bei einem Beruf.

So this is different from a profession.

Das Wort dafür kommt aus der Englischen Sprache.

The word for it comes from the English language.

Brief-Marken, Sammel-Bilder, Finger-Hüte oder andere Dinge.

Postage stamps, collectible cards, thimbles, or other things.

10 words above B2

Hobby

an activity done regularly in one's free time for pleasure plural: Hobbys a hobby (activity) A1/ˈhɔbi/

freien← frei

free, not occupied by work or duties declined form of 'frei' free; unenslaved; unimprisoned; free; unrestricted; more negative also: unrestrained; licentious; unblocked; free for passage A1/fʁaɪ̯/

Beruf

profession, occupation, job plural: Berufe occupation, profession, trade, job, career; vocation A1/bəˈʁuːf/

Wort

word plural: Wörter (for individual words) or Worte (for meaningful sayings) word as an isolated unit; utterance, word with context; speech, speaking, (figuratively) floor A1/vɔrt/

Englischen← englisch

English (pertaining to the English language) declined form of 'englisch' English; rare; angelic, angelical B2/ˈɛŋ.lɪʃ/

Sprache

language plural: Sprachen language (body of words, and set of methods of combining them); speech (style of speaking); speech (faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words;… A1/ˈʃpʁaːxə/

Brief-Marken← die Briefmarke

postage stamps plural form; singular: Briefmarke postage stamp A2[ˈbʀiːfˌmaʁkə]

Sammel-Bilder← das Sammelbild

collectible pictures/cards plural form; singular: Sammelbild

Finger-Hüte← der Fingerhut

thimbles (literally 'finger hats') plural form; singular: Fingerhut

Dinge← das Ding

things, objects plural form; singular: Ding thing; thing; girl; boy (young person); Thing (historic Germanic council) A2/dɪŋ/

Grammar in this text

Prepositional phrase with 'in' + dative (Wechselpräposition)

in seiner freien Zeit

'in' is a two-way preposition; here it takes the dative case (seiner freien Zeit) because it indicates a location in time, not a direction.

Comparison with 'als'

anders als bei einem Beruf

'als' is used after 'anders' to express 'different from'. It introduces a comparison.

Relative clause with 'dafür' as a da-compound

Das Wort dafür kommt aus der Englischen Sprache.

'dafür' is a pronominal adverb meaning 'for that', referring back to the previous sentence. It is used to avoid repeating a noun phrase.

Verb position in main clause (V2)

Ein Hobby macht man in seiner freien Zeit besonders gerne.

In a declarative main clause, the finite verb (macht) is in the second position, even if the subject (man) follows the object (Ein Hobby).

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