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A Polite Message to Pass Along in German

In “A Polite Message to Pass Along,” you will practise relaying teachers’, coaches’ and hosts’ polite requests using formal German indirect speech. Konjunktiv I forms such as möge and mögen preserve the meaning of a request rather than presenting the requested action as a fact. With a primary-school child, introduce this as a formal way of passing on a message, then explain it in everyday language if needed.