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Ordering at a Restaurant in Germany
Restaurant - das Restaur'ant' (pronounciated French)
at (the) - beim
There are many restaurants you might find in Germany. Much like in English-speaking countries, you 
would more likely use the name of the restaurant than name what kind of restaurant. If you want to 
adress the wish to eat a certain food, there are two ways:
example: "wanting to eat chinese food"
1. "Ich möchte gerne zum Chinesen." - literally: "I want to go to the Chinese (restaurant)." 2. "Ich 
möchte gerne chinesisch essen (gehen)." - literally: "I want to (go) eat Chinese (style)."
Here are some more restaurants you can find in Germany:
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Chinese food: "zum Chinesen" / "chinesisch essen" 
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Japanese food: "zum Japaner" / "japanisch essen" 
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American food: "zum Amerikaner" / "amerikanisch essen" 
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Mexican food: "zum Mexikaner" / "mexikanisch essen" 
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Arabic food: "zum Araber" / "arabisch essen" 
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Italian food: "zum Italiener" / "italienisch essen" 
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Indian food: "zum Inder" / "indisch essen" 
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French food: "zum Franzosen" / "französich essen" 
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Greek food: "zum Griechen" / "griechisch essen" 
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Turkish food: "zum Türken" / "türkisch essen" 

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Accusative case prepositions
You read at the beginning of this lesson that the 
Accusative Case
covers the direct object and the 
objects of some prepositions. Here are those prepositions that always fall under Accusative Case
Durch
- through
Für
- for
Gegen
- against
Ohne
- without
Um
- at, around
These prepositions can be memorized easily using a common tune. "It's a Small World After All" and 
"Mary Had a Little Lamb" both work well for this.
You learned 
um
last lesson, and 
ohne
earlier this lesson. 
Durch
and 
gegen
will be taught in depth later, 
and für will be taught now.
Up until this point, you have only worried about the Accusative Case in third person. Für, meaning 
'for', can and should be used in the first and second persons, too. Here's an example:
"The cheeseburger is for me." - "Der Cheeseburger ist 
für mich
."
As you can see, 'me' is put into accusative case because the preposition is 
für
.