Intermediate German: A Grammar and Workbook

Comparative Superlative billig → billiger → am billigsten klein kleiner am kleinsten Note that most monosyllabic adjectives with ...

Adverbs in German Using adverbs While adjectives describe nouns, adverbsprovide more information about verbs: Adjective Sie ist ...

Exercise 15.1 The following sentences contain examples of adjectival endings with indefinite articlesandpossessives. Identify th ...

Exercise 15.4 Translate the sentences below into German. 1 The city is big and modern. 2 He loves Italian music. 3 German beer i ...

UNIT SIXTEEN Prepositions What are prepositions? Prepositions are words that define the relationship between different elements ...

Accusative Dative Accusative Genitive or dative ohnewithout mitwith, by (train überabove, over umat, round etc.) unterunder nach ...

Ich fahre für eine Woche nach Bayern. I am going to Bavaria for a week. gegen– ‘against’, ‘around’, ‘about’: Ich bin nicht gege ...

außer– ‘apart from’, ‘out of ’ (order, control etc.): Außer einem Sandwich hatte er nichts gegessen. Apart from a sandwich, he ...

Note that in German, seitis usually used in connection with the present tense. von–‘from’, ‘of ’, ‘by’ (often in constructions ...

Guidelines for usage In general the following guidelines apply when deciding which case the Wechselpräpositionen or ‘variable pr ...

Accusative Dative unter– Er stellt die Schuhe unter Die Schuhe stehen unter dem ‘under’ dasSofa. Sofa. He puts the shoes under T ...

Note that in contemporary German the above prepositions are also frequently used with the dative: Er antwortete statt seinem Bru ...

Exercise 16.2 Now sort the prepositions from Exercise 16.1 according to the cases they require: Prepositions+ Prepositions+ Prep ...

4 How often do you go to the opera? (Use the Sieform.) 5 Do you walk through the park? (Use the duform.) 6 He stayed the whole d ...

UNIT SEVENTEEN Unit 17 Forming questions Two types of questions There are two main types of questions in German: yes/no-questio ...

Arbeitetsie noch bei Siemens? Does she still work at Siemens? With two verbs When there are two verbs in a yes/no-question, the ...

Here are some examples of w-questions: Wann fängt der Film an? When does the film start? Warum essen Sie kein Brot? Why don’t yo ...

werrequires case endings The question words wer‘who’ is used when referring to people. It has different forms relating to the fo ...

Welchen Saft möchten Sie?(acc., masc.) Which/what juice would you like? Bei welchem Friseur warst du? (dat., masc.) Which hairdr ...

Exercise 17.1 Find the appropriate yes/no-question for each of the sentences below, as shown in the example. Example: Ja, er kom ...