Today we learnt how to say ‘I have…’ and ‘I don’t have’ using the correct articles for each noun.    For example:

Hast du…eine Spuelmaschine/einen MP3 player/eins Auto?

:) Ich habe eine Spuelmaschine – I have a dishwasher:) Ich habe einen MP3 player – I have a MP3 player:) Ich habe ein Auto – I have a car:( Ich habe keine Spuelmaschine – I don’t have a dishwasher:( Ich habe keinen MP3 player – I don’t have an MP3 player:( I habe kein Auto – I don’t have a carSo… what is key for us to remember is that when a noun is neutral (i.e. has the article ‘das’), we change ein to eins, kein to keins, and remove the noun from the sentence altogether.  We had fun practising this by pretending we were sales men/women, coming to the door and listing what we had for our partners to buy.We then went shopping (again :)), but this time in the department store.  We learnt quite a few questions and responses that would definitely help if we were searching for something in a large store.   For example, asking which floor departments were on, and what we were looking for in particular when asked.Towards the end of the lesson, we moved on to learning about plurals.  For example, ‘das Auto’ becomes ‘die Autos’, and ‘der Teppich’ becomes ‘die Teppiche’.  The good news is that all plurals use the article ‘die’.  The not so good news is that singular words change in a number of different ways to become plural!  I’m sure it’s just a case of learning them a few at a time :)