Intermediate German: A Grammar and Workbook

Ich kannte seine Eltern. I knew his parents. Er rannte sehr schnell nach Hause. He ran home very fast. Sie wussten nicht, dass e ...

Patterns of stem vowel changes Many irregular and mixed verbs follow certain patterns when changing their stems in the simple pa ...

Exercise 12.2 Fill in the gaps below by using the simple past form of the verb before the comma. Example: Er wollte nicht schlaf ...

4 She took her bag and drove into town. 5 Last week I flew to Vienna. 6 The children ran to school. 7 They worked in the garden. ...

UNIT THIRTEEN Unit 13 The past perfect tense What is the past perfect tense? The past perfect tense, also called the pluperfect ...

kauf-en les-en seh-en ich hatte gekauft gelesen gesehen du hattest gekauft gelesen gesehen Sie hatten gekauft gelesen gesehen er ...

Ich wusste nicht, dass er nach Deutschland gereist war. I didn’t know that he had travelled to Germany. Nachdem die Eltern nach ...

Simple past Ich öffnete die Tür, nachdem ich den Schlüssel gefunden hatte. Present perfect Ich habe meinen Kaffee getrunken, nac ...

4 Ich konnte nicht kommen, da ich den Zug verpasst _________. 5 Er kam um Mitternacht nach Hause, weil er noch ins Restaurant ge ...

Exercise 13.4 Translate the sentences below into German, using the past perfect tense. 1 We hadn’t seen each other for 10 years. ...

UNIT FOURTEEN Unit 14 The future tense Referring to the future in German Thefuture tensein German is formed with the verb werden ...

Usage and functions The future tense is used less frequently in German than in English. If the context makes the reference to th ...

In zwei Tagenbin ich in New York. In two days, I’ll be in New York. Das Konzert findet morgenstatt. The concert will take place ...

Usage The future perfect tense is rarely used in contemporary German and is usually replaced by the shorter construction of the ...

1 Nächstes Wochenende wirst du deinen Kurs beendet haben. 2 Morgen um diese Zeit wirst du schon in Berlin angekommen sein. 3 Er ...

UNIT FIFTEEN Unit 15 Adjectives and adverbs Use of adjectives Adjectives provide more information about nouns: Dieses Handy ist ...

•withnoarticle with an indefinitearticleor with a definitearticle. All three patterns are explained in the following sections. ...

Adjectives with the indefinite article Here is an overview of adjective endings when the adjective is preceded by an indefinite ...

Adjectives with the definite article Here is an overview of adjective endings when the adjective is preceded by a definite artic ...

Alle neuenSchuhe sind mir zuerst zu eng. (nom., pl.) All new shoes are at first too tight for me. Points to watch out for Spelli ...