Intermediate German: A Grammar and Workbook

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4 ______ du morgen Zeit hast, gehen wir chinesisch essen.
5 ______ ich meinen Computerkurs begann, war ich überrascht, wie
einfach es war.
6 Jedes Mal ______ ich nach London fuhr, regnete es.

Exercise 18.4


Translate the sentences below into German.

1 Basel isn’t in Austria but in Switzerland.
2 The children are tired but they don’t want to go to bed.
3 He thinks that footballers earn too much money.
4 I hope that it doesn’t rain.
5 When I was a child I lived in Florida.
6 Whenever I hear this music I want to dance.
7 When you are in London you must eat ‘fish and chips’. (Use the Sie
form.)
8 He wants to study either music or mathematics.
9 We can either go by car or by train.
10 The longer you live in Berlin the better you will understand German.
(Use theSieform.)

Checklist ✓

1 What are the main differences between coordinating and
subordinating conjunctions?

2 Can you name five coordinating conjunctions?

3 Can you explain the differences between alsandwenn
when referring to the past?

4 How would you say ‘either... or’ and ‘the more, the
better’ in German?

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