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B2–C1 · Clarification questions · 4 patterns

Clarification questions

Repair meaning before the conversation moves on.

01 · How to use this set

Start from the communication job

Repair meaning before the conversation moves on.

Read the frame, try to complete your own sentence before opening an example, then compare the English structure with its German parallel. The point is retrieval and choice, not passive list reading.

02 · Representative patterns

Start with these reusable frames

A compact sample from the 4 patterns in this study set.

01When you say that [X], what exactly do you mean?When you say that the team needs another day to decide, what exactly do you mean? · German parallel: Wenn Sie sagen, dass [das Team einen weiteren Tag für die Entscheidung braucht], was genau meinen Sie?02Could you clarify whether [X]?Could you clarify whether the team needs another day to decide? · German parallel: Könnten Sie klären, ob [das Team einen weiteren Tag für die Entscheidung braucht]?03How should we understand the fact that [X]?How should we understand the fact that the team needs another day to decide? · German parallel: Wie sollten wir verstehen, dass [das Team einen weiteren Tag für die Entscheidung braucht]?04Which part needs clarification if [X]?Which part needs clarification if the team needs another day to decide? · German parallel: Welcher Teil braucht eine Klärung, wenn [das Team einen weiteren Tag für die Entscheidung braucht]?

03 · Complete set

Browse every pattern

The canonical list follows below. Every pattern has a stable ID and its own page for examples, translation, and reuse.

01When you say that [X], what exactly do you mean?QSTQCL001 · When you say that [the team needs another day to decide], what exactly do you mean? / Wenn Sie sagen, dass [das Team einen weiteren Tag für die Entscheidung braucht], was genau meinen Sie?02Could you clarify whether [X]?QSTQCL011 · Could you clarify whether [the team needs another day to decide]? / Könnten Sie klären, ob [das Team einen weiteren Tag für die Entscheidung braucht]?03How should we understand the fact that [X]?QSTQCL021 · How should we understand the fact that [the team needs another day to decide]? / Wie sollten wir verstehen, dass [das Team einen weiteren Tag für die Entscheidung braucht]?04Which part needs clarification if [X]?QSTQCL031 · Which part needs clarification if [the team needs another day to decide]? / Welcher Teil braucht eine Klärung, wenn [das Team einen weiteren Tag für die Entscheidung braucht]?

04 · Continue

Questions in use

A useful next step from the same learning path.

01Follow-up questionsKeep an answer moving toward its implication.02Opinion questionsInvite a view with the right amount of openness.03Cause and reason questionsTrace a result back to its likely cause.04Purpose questionsAsk what an action is meant to achieve.

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Pattern PracticeFind a pattern you can reuseContinue through a canonical Metkagram learning surface already linked from this page.Pattern AtlasWhen you say that [X], what exactly do you mean?Continue through a canonical Metkagram learning surface already linked from this page.Pattern AtlasCould you clarify whether [X]?Continue through a canonical Metkagram learning surface already linked from this page.