Words Explained

Halt in German explained: Halt! as “stop”, the shrugging particle halt (“just”, “simply”), halt vs eben, and the verb halten with its many meanings, plus common mistakes and a quiz.

Genau means “exactly” or “precisely”, but Germans also use it to agree, to fill pauses and in phrases like genauso and genau genommen. Here are its four main uses, genau vs richtig vs stimmt, mistakes and a quiz.