What are key German expressions for effective meeting participation

Key German expressions for effective meeting participation include polite and structured phrases to contribute ideas, ask questions, and agree or disagree constructively. Some important expressions are:

• „Darf ich etwas hinzufügen?“ (May I add something?)
• „Könnten Sie das bitte näher erläutern?“ (Could you please explain that in more detail?)
• „Meiner Meinung nach…“ (In my opinion…)
• „Ich stimme dem zu.“ / „Ich bin anderer Meinung.“ (I agree with that. / I have a different opinion.)
• „Können wir einen Moment innehalten?“ (Can we pause for a moment?)
• „Lassen Sie uns zum nächsten Punkt übergehen.“ (Let’s move on to the next point.)
• „Das ist ein interessanter Punkt.“ (That is an interesting point.)
• „Könnten wir das noch einmal zusammenfassen?“ (Could we summarize that once more?)

These expressions help maintain politeness, clarity, and engagement in meetings, fostering effective communication and collaboration. ¹

References

• Integrating aesthetic experience in german as a foreign language (DAF) acquisition: an empirical study for developing a workshop concept – arts educate in romanian schools

• Digital Storytelling Intervention for Enhancing the Social Participation of People With Mild Cognitive Impairment: Co-Design and Usability Study

• Highlighting Cultural Roots or Rather Routes: Art educational approaches to diversity and migration at an international workshop meeting with Austrian, German and Swiss contributions

• The Impacts of Team Culture on Primary Care Teams

• Joint meeting of the German society of neuropathology and neuroanatomy (DGNN) and the Polish association of neuropathologists with international participation in conjunction with the 52nd annual meeting of the German society of neuropathology and neuroanatomy (DGNN)

• IRGWP: An international network of key players for a better understanding and industrial developments in wood protection and preservation

• Harnessing the power of language to enhance patient experience of the NHS complaint journey in Northern Ireland: a mixed-methods study.

• Developing Dance Sport Model for Children Aged 7-12

• Antanas Smetona’s activities in the USA: Lithuanian-American mission and aspirations to restore the Lithuanian state

• Abstract 2722: An added twist: drug-mediated pan-inhibition of KDM catalysis causes selective reduction of mRNAs that encode a small subset of KDM enzymes

• Acquiring a Formality-Informed Lexical Resource for Style Analysis

• German Parliamentary Corpus (GerParCor)

• Robots Who Interrupt Talk in Meetings

• MaiBaam Annotation Guidelines

• When the Body Belies the Words: Embodied Agency With darf/kann ich? (“May/Can I?”) in German

• The Use of Phrases Containing misunderstanding in German Discussion Forums

• How to hold an effective meeting

• Forms and Functions of Idiomatic Expressions in Conversational Interaction

• The linguistic landscape of the coronavirus crisis in foreign language didactics by using the example of German

• Supervised Disambiguation of German Verbal Idioms with a BiLSTM Architecture