Where You Live: Shopping Vocabularies

Common Shopping Vocabulary

Shop/Store - das Geschäft
Supermarket - der Supermarkt
Shopping Centre/Mall - das Einkaufszentrum
Trolley - der Einkaufswagen
Basket - der Korb
Cashier/Till - die Kasse
Queue/Line - die Schlange
Receipt - die Quittung
To buy - kaufen
To sell - verkaufen
Price - der Preis
Off-licence/liquor store - der Getränkemarkt
Bakery - die Bäckerei
Butcher’s shop - die Metzgerei

Types of Shops

Book shop - die Buchhandlung
Chemist/Drugstore - die Apotheke
Clothing store - das Bekleidungsgeschäft
Shoe store - das Schuhgeschäft
Jewellery store - das Juweliergeschäft
Electronics store - der Elektronikfachmarkt

Shopping Actions

To browse/look around - sich umsehen
To try on - anprobieren
To pay - bezahlen
To pack - packen
To choose - auswählen
To haggle - handeln

Efficient revision should involve using these words in context - construct sentences using these words and translate them both ways (English-German-German etc) until you’re fully confident in their usage. Remember to pay attention to the grammatical gender of each noun, as this will affect the rest of the sentence (articles, adjectives etc.) Good luck!