Hänsel und Gretel — Hansel and Gretel
Brüder Grimm, 1857 · 2676 words in German · part of the library.
How long «Hänsel und Gretel» is, and how hard
| Length in German | 2676 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 | 555 dictionary words, averaging 21.8 words a sentence |
| Words glossed | 555 of 555 — every one that appears in the tale |
| Words that appear once | 265 — 48%. 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 |
422 of this tale's own 555 words, most frequent first, carry 95% of it; 163 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 Grethel.
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 library — the eight German tales and the fifteen Russian books, every word glossed, sentence-by-sentence English — for €5 a month or €39 a year, cancel whenever you like, one subscription for both shelves. What the library costs. «Der süße Brei» is free, entire, if you would rather taste the room first.