You let in German 🇩🇪

du lässt info.

**Tips to remember the German word ‘du lässt’:**

1. Associate ‘lässt’ with the English word ‘last’; when you let something happen, you could think of it as the ‘last’ decree or decision you make—hence, ‘du lässt’.
2. Link ‘lässt’ to its English equivalent ‘let’ by remembering ‘let’ has a short, crisp sound, much like the sharp double ‘s’ in ‘lässt’.
3. Think of ‘lassen’ (the infinitive of ‘lässt’) as ‘to let’, which sounds a bit like ‘lesson’. To remember ‘du lässt’, think “You (du) teach (lässt) a lesson (to let something happen).”

**Explanations:**

The verb ‘lassen’ means ‘to let’ or ‘to allow’. In German, verbs are conjugated to correspond with the subject of the sentence. ‘Du lässt’ is the second person singular present tense form of ‘lassen’, so it directly translates to ‘you let’ or ‘you allow’.

**Other words that mean the same thing:**

– ‘erlauben’ – to permit, to allow
– ‘gestatten’ – to permit, to allow

**Conjugations of ‘lassen’:**

– Infinitive: lassen
– Present tense: ich lasse (I let), du lässt (you let), er/sie/es lässt (he/she/it lets), wir lassen (we let), ihr lasst (you guys let), sie lassen (they let), Sie lassen (you let – formal)
– Simple past tense: ich ließ (I let), du ließest (you let), er/sie/es ließ (he/she/it let), wir ließen (we let), ihr ließet (you guys let), sie ließen (they let), Sie ließen (you let – formal)
– Past participle: gelassen
– Future tense (will): ich werde lassen (I will let), du wirst lassen (you will let), er/sie/es wird lassen (he/she/it will let) etc.

**Examples of sentences that use ‘du lässt’:**

1. Du lässt das Kind spät ins Bett gehen. (You let the child go to bed late.)
2. Warum lässt du ihn nicht rein? (Why don’t you let him in?)
3. Du lässt immer deine Sachen herumliegen. (You always let your stuff lie around.)
4. Du lässt mich keine Wahl. (You leave me no choice.)

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