Rapper: Halt, halt, halt. Ughh.
Makeda: He needs more attitude.
Rapper: Mmm鈥
Makeda: I feel like maybe he needs to sing along with the words.
Rapper: Yeah. You want to ask him if he can?
Makeda: Yeah boy! Marco, du singen?
Rapper: Um Marco, Marco, Makeda meint, singst du?
Makeda: What did you just say?
Rapper: Oh. I-I was just making sure Marco got it.
Makeda: Huh?
Rapper: In German, we kind of harmonise the person doing the thing with the verb, so they always match up. It means everyone always knows who is doing what.
Makeda: So, how does it work in German then?
Rapper: Um Marco, wir machen das nochmal, ok?
Marco: Ok.
Rapper: We add a different ending to the verb for each different type of person; so there's a different ending for I, you, he, she, it, we, the plural kind of you, and they. Um, Dr眉ben, ja.
Makeda: And what do the endings look like?
Rapper: For ich, du, er, es, sie, it goes -e, -st, -t.
Makeda: For I, you, it he she, it goes -e, -st, -t.
Rapper: So pick an action word out of the dictionary, chop off its ending and add -st, or -t
Makeda: For 鈥業鈥 it's an -e, for 鈥榶ou鈥 it's -st, 鈥榠t鈥, 鈥榟e鈥, 鈥榮he鈥 takes a -t.
Rapper: For 鈥榠ch鈥 it's an -e, for 鈥榙u鈥 it's -st, 鈥榚r鈥, 鈥榚s鈥, 鈥榮ie鈥 takes a -t.
Makeda: 鈥業t鈥, 鈥榟e鈥, 鈥榮he鈥 takes a -t.
Rapper: For 鈥榠ch鈥 it's an -e, for 鈥榙u鈥 it's -st, 鈥榚r鈥, 鈥榚s鈥, 鈥榮ie鈥 takes a -t.
Makeda: Ich versteh-e, I understand. Marco, du sing-st jetzt!
Rapper: Das stimmt.
Makeda: Okay, let's just check what we've got so far. Uh, Marco tanzt, Marco spielt Gitarre, Marco spielt Schach, und Marco macht eine Bodenwelle, the worm.
Rapper: Um
Makeda: Okay, und jetzt! Er macht einen Spagat. Wow! Er macht einen Spagat! Ich mache auch einen Spagat!
Rapper: Woah, woah, woah. Pause, Leute, Pause. Makeda, there was one more person I can teach you, and that is 'we' - 'wir'. The ending for that is pretty simple, it's the same as the infinitive, like the way you find the word in the dictionary. I think we should do something with us all together.
Makeda: Okay, so maybe we could walk? To walk, that's an infinitive right?
Rapper: Ganz genau.
Makeda: Wir gehen. Or like, why don't we all dance together? That's 鈥榯anzen鈥, right? Wir tanzen alle zusammen!
Marco: Oder ich singe, du singst, und er singt.
Rapper: Wir singen alle zusammen? Uh, Ja, das ist eine gute Idee, Marco.
Makeda: Oder Marco spielt Gitarre und wir zwei machen einen Spagat.
Rapper: Niemals, Makeda! Um you know, someone has to manage the camera, right?
Makeda: Ahh, excuses, excuses.
Rapper: Nein, es ist die Wahrheit, it's the truth!
Makeda: Okay, okay. Ich f盲hre Regie, du f盲hrst die Kamera und Marco macht den Rest!
Marco: Also, wir tanzen nicht zusammen und ich tanze alleine?
Makeda: Genau. Okay. Marco macht den Hampelmann. Marco spielt Tennis. Nein, er macht einen Kopfstand?
Marco: Immer mache ich die komplizierten Sachen. Ich versuche alles.
Makeda: Ja, du machst alles so gut! Hey! What did I do? Was habe ich gemacht?