The German reading room
Hänsel und Gretel — Hansel and Gretel
The Brothers Grimm, 1857 · 2678 words in German · part of the library.
How long «Hänsel und Gretel» is, and how hard
| Length in German | 2678 running words · 123 sentences · about 11 printed pages |
|---|---|
| Time to read | about 24 minutes at a learner's pace, with the glosses to hand |
| Different words | 554 dictionary words, averaging 21.8 words a sentence |
| Words glossed | 554 of 554 — every one that appears in the tale |
| Words that appear once | 262 — 47%. A word met once is a word you will not learn from this text alone |
| Where it stands | 8 of 8 by length in the German room |
421 of this tale's own 554 words, most frequent first, carry 95% of it; 164 carry 80%.
How it begins
Vor einem großen Walde wohnte ein armer Holzhacker mit seiner Frau und seinen zwei Kindern; das Bübchen hieß Hänsel und das Mädchen Gretel.
In front of a great forest there lived a poor woodcutter with his wife and his two children; the little boy was called Hansel and the girl Gretel.
That first sentence is the free sample, and the only one: «Hänsel und Gretel» is part of the interactive library in German, Russian, Spanish, French and Italian, with word meanings and sentence translations — one subscription for all five rooms. What the library costs. «Der süße Brei» is free, entire, on its editorial reference page.