Lass das... - Diese 7 Phrasen mit LASSEN musst du kennen!

Welcome back to our channel. In today's video, Laura and I will talk about expressions and phrases with the verb LASSEN. All in the imperative form, so LASS. Exactly, that will be our topic today, so let's go! Before we start right away, two hints. Hint number one, you will find a free PDF to this video that you can download easily. You will find all expressions, examples, situations, sentences, etc. You can download it, whatever you want to do with it. And hint number two, we'll start with the verb LASSEN, I would say. So that's our focus today, the verb LASSEN. And LASSEN has, I think, eight different meanings. We've even made a video about that. In any case, today we want to focus on the meaning of an expression, i.e. a request. Like, for example, this, let's start, let's get started, come on, let's go. So this call, this request to another person to do something now. And that's exactly where we have today, I think, seven different expressions. And expression number one is LASS DAS SEIN. LASS DAS SEIN, what does that mean? So stop it. Stop it somehow, let it be. So if you ask me for advice, because you think, Laura, can you tell me, should I do this or should I not do this? You're a little insecure. And then I say, no, come on, no, let it be. So stop it, don't do it. Not a good idea. Yes, exactly. Let it be. Exactly. And here LASSEN, by the way, has this one meaning of stop. So, for example, I don't know, I'll stop eating chocolate, for example. So then it's also, I stop eating chocolate. And here I just say in general, let it be. So stop it, as you say. I just thought of a child again. If a child is doing something all the time, if, I don't know, you have the baby on your arm or the child on your arm and it's pulling on your hair all the time or something, that you say at some point, hey, let it be. Stop it, it hurts me. I think of my dog, who, for example, wants to call a person again or something. Then I say, no, no, let it be. So it can also be very sharply phrased, so to speak. So stop it now. Exactly. Let it be. Yes, very good. Okay. The second expression is to let yourself go. So if I say to you, for example, Teresa, don't let yourself go like that. So negative here. Don't let yourself go like that. Yes, exactly. So that's actually something negative, what you would say to me, if, for example, I don't take a shower for a week or do it for two weeks, in any case, don't take a shower for two weeks and somehow stink and only wear dirty clothes or something. So Teresa, how do you pull yourself together now? So don't let yourself go like that. So, but you don't just say that to people who somehow have a hygiene problem, but rather also when, for example, my heart was broken and I'm totally sad, but for five months or so and I'm like every day, oh, the world is so cruel, I don't know. Then you would say, hey, Teresa, don't let yourself go like that, pull yourself together, come on, you have to be a part of life again, so to motivate someone, don't let yourself go now. Yes, exactly. By the way, you can also use it without it, if someone does exactly that. Yes. So if I were to say now, so Teresa, she really lets herself go, she doesn't pay any more attention to herself, as you said, with the hygiene problem or if someone then maybe eats five kilos of chocolate a day out of frustration or something, then I would say, so Teresa, she lets herself go. Or get lazy or something like that, then you say, wow, she lets herself go quite a bit. But it's really not very positive to say that. So, yes, exactly, you have to be careful how you say something like that. But in trust, of course, you could say that to a person. Yes, exactly. Okay, our next expression is, don't let yourself be subdued. That's something very positive again, I would say. Don't let yourself be subdued. What do you mean by that? You actually want to motivate someone to do something, even if the whole thing is perhaps associated with a risk or if everyone else somehow says, you won't be able to do that anyway, or it will never work. Yes. Then you would motivate the person and say, hey, no, don't let yourself be subdued, just do it. Try it, nothing can happen. Yes. Don't let yourself be subdued. Exactly. I think we've said that more often. We've been self-employed with our online language school for about five years now. And there were always situations where you might have doubted or you might have been told, what are they doing there or something. And then we always said, no, we don't let ourselves be subdued, but we keep going. So that's this, we don't let ourselves be pulled down by it, or so that we say, we stop now, or something. But no, we kept going. We didn't let ourselves be subdued. Very good. Okay. Then we have the expression, let go of your fingers. Let go of your fingers. You say that to a person if you want to warn them somehow. So I can think of different situations where you can say something like that. So if I have a girlfriend, for example, who is dating a very toxic person, then I would say, let go of your fingers. Let go of your fingers. That won't end well, for example. You could say that. So again, stop it. Yes, exactly. So don't go any further. Yes, exactly. It's just a warning. If you mean something good to a person. So stop it. But also a little bit evil. So somehow, leave your fingers to my husband or something. When another person comes, I could imagine that in some films or something. Yes, or? What did you think at first? Yes, I thought of chocolate again. I love chocolate to a known extent. And at some point it may be too much and that's unhealthy. Then you could say, Laura, now let go of your fingers. So now stop it. It hurts you. Yes, exactly. So it's like a warning. You want to protect me, so to speak. You mean well with me. And you say, leave your fingers. Yes, exactly. A quick grammatical note. We say davon when it's about a thing. And we say von plus the pronoun when we mean a person. Yes, exactly. His fingers, your fingers, your fingers, whatever. So on dative. On dative. Exactly. Yes, okay. Okay, the next thing is, let yourself feel good. Let yourself feel good. I would say that when I know you're going on vacation now. Yes. Then I would say as a farewell greeting, so to speak, have fun on vacation and let yourself feel good. So enjoy the time. I hope you have a nice time there. You let yourself feel really good. You don't have any stress and you can enjoy everything in full swing. Yes, exactly. So like a nice greeting. And it's actually always in connection with vacation, for example. Or some nice activity or something that you do. Just let yourself or let yourself feel good. Again with the dative. With you and you. Exactly. So have fun. Console yourself. Or let yourself be consoled. Yes, exactly. Very good. Okay. Then we have the expression, leave me alone. Yes, leave me alone. Leave someone alone. To leave someone alone simply means not to annoy anymore. Among other things, to give the person peace, so to speak, and maybe to leave a room or something. By the way, we have an accusative here. You say, leave me alone. I'll leave you alone. That's right. So don't annoy me. Leave me alone now. Yes, exactly. Very good. And the last expression is, let all five be straight. Also perhaps a Bavarian expression for South Germany. Yes, I don't know if it's the same in the north. I'm not sure. In any case, you hear it here with us quite often. What does that mean? That you may not take some things so precisely. So because you might say, well, come on, that's maybe not so important now. We don't want to exaggerate now. Yes, we don't want to overestimate it, maybe. Yes. In which example situation would you say that? Imagine you're at work somewhere and what kind of example could you choose? And the colleagues are discussing something, but you don't really come to a result. And you notice, well, it's actually not that important anymore that we get this result, because we actually wanted to go somewhere else. Then I would say, well, come on, let all five be straight. It doesn't matter now. Let's move on to something else. Yes, exactly. Yes, and just not to exaggerate. Yes. Or? So, I don't know, if you're in a fight again or in a discussion or something like that, especially maybe on TV with politicians or something like that, that you just notice, hey, we're drifting away here and suddenly we're having discussions about something completely different and the mood is very heated or something. That you then say, okay, let's all be straight and focus again on what we actually wanted to say or what we actually wanted to talk about. Yes, exactly. Yes, I would say that too. Okay. Very good. Those were our seven expressions with the verb lassen. Of course, there are many more, but those were some of them. And yes, don't forget to get the free PDF for it. You can find the link in the video description below. Then I would say, see you in one of the next videos.