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Adverbs of place: hier, dort, oben, unten, links, rechts, hin / her

When giving directions, describing your home or saying where something is, you need words like 'here', 'upstairs', 'on the right', 'outside'. These adverbs need no preposition or article, so they are easy to use. At the end of the topic there is a subtlety typical of German: 'hin' (there, away from me) and 'her' (here, towards me).

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When giving directions, describing your home or saying where something is, you need words like 'here', 'upstairs', 'on the right', 'outside'. These adverbs need no preposition or article, so they are easy to use. At the end of the topic there is a subtlety typical of German: 'hin' (there, away from me) and 'her' (here, towards me).

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