Sit on a throne and learn some German!

I know this isn’t really a throne. It’s a chair in the meeting room which I hire for my Wednesday German class. The rest of the furniture are normal tables and chairs apart from this one chair, which, right from the start, had been dubbed the teacher’s throne. And that’s what it is: MY teacher’s throne … and none of my students would dare sit on it

But, as it looks a little bit like a throne, here are some words/ phrases which you might come across when reading German novels about kings an...