How do you ask if the apartment is still available?

You say: Ist die Wohnung im vierten Stock noch frei?

How do you ask what's nearby the apartment?

You say: Gibt es in der Umgebung einen Supermarkt und eine Apotheke?

Verspätung is the amount of time by which someone or something arrives later than planned.

This afternoon you're viewing an apartment on the fourth floor and you've brought a list of questions.

Ist die Wohnung im vierten Stock noch frei?

Is the apartment on the fourth floor still available?

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Wohnung/ˈvoːnʊŋ/
apartmentnoun
Several rooms in a building where a person or a family lives.
Heizung/ˈhaɪ̯tsʊŋ/
heatingnoun
The system that makes a room or an entire building warm.
Verspätung/fɛɐ̯ˈʃpɛːtʊŋ/
delaynoun
The amount of time by which someone or something arrives later than planned.
Empfehlung/ɛmˈpfeːlʊŋ/
recommendationnoun
Advice to take or do a particular thing because it's good.
Rechnung/ˈʁɛçnʊŋ/
billnoun
A document that states how much money you have to pay for goods or a service.
Umgebung/ʊmˈɡeːbʊŋ/
surroundingsnoun
The area that lies around a place.
Verbindung/fɛɐ̯ˈbɪndʊŋ/
connectionnoun
A way to get from one place to another by train or bus.
eng/ɛŋ/
narrowadjective
With little space between the sides, so that you can barely get through.
lang/laŋ/
longadjective
With a lot of distance from one end to the other, or lasting a long time.
hängen/ˈhɛŋən/
to hangverb
To be attached to something above and point downward, without touching the ground.

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Ist die Wohnung im vierten Stock noch frei?
Is the apartment on the fourth floor still available?
Funktioniert die Heizung in allen Zimmern der Wohnung?
Does the heating work in every room of the apartment?
Ich komme mit einer kleinen Verspätung, tut mir leid.
I'm running a little late, sorry about that.
Können Sie mir eine Empfehlung für den Umzug geben?
Can you give me a recommendation for the move?
Kommt die Rechnung für die Heizung jeden Monat?
Does the heating bill come every month?
Gibt es in der Umgebung einen Supermarkt und eine Apotheke?
Is there a supermarket and a pharmacy nearby?
Gibt es von hier eine gute Verbindung in die Stadt?
Is there a good connection from here into the city?
Ist der Flur zum Schlafzimmer nicht zu eng?
Isn't the hallway to the bedroom too narrow?
Der Balkon ist ziemlich lang und nicht sehr breit.
The balcony is quite long and not very wide.
Dürfen die Lampen an der Decke hängen bleiben?
Can the lamps stay hanging from the ceiling?

Wohnung/ˈvoːnʊŋ/
The o is long, and you don't pronounce the h that follows it.
Verspätung/fɛɐ̯ˈʃpɛːtʊŋ/
The v sounds like an f, sp at the start of the word sounds like shp, and the stress falls on spä, which has a long ä.
Empfehlung/ɛmˈpfeːlʊŋ/
Stressed on the second syllable, whose e is long; pf is pronounced as a single sound.
Rechnung/ˈʁɛçnʊŋ/
The ch after e is the soft sound as in ich, not the hard one as in ach.
Umgebung/ʊmˈɡeːbʊŋ/
Stressed on ge, and that e is long; the u before it stays short.
Verbindung/fɛɐ̯ˈbɪndʊŋ/
The v sounds like an f, and the stress falls on the syllable -bin-.
eng/ɛŋ/
At the end there's only the ng sound, no g and no k after it.
lang/laŋ/
The a is short, and no g sound follows at the end.
hängen/ˈhɛŋən/
The ä is short, and ng is a single sound with no g after it.

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How do you ask if the apartment is still available?: You say: Ist die Wohnung im vierten Stock noch frei?
How do you ask what's nearby the apartment?: You say: Gibt es in der Umgebung einen Supermarkt und eine Apotheke?
What does Verspätung mean?: Verspätung is the amount of time by which someone or something arrives later than planned.

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