Modern German Grammar: A Practical Guide, Second Edition
24.1 Der words See 22.2 (p. 36). (a)dieser ‘this’, jeder ‘each/every’ and jener ‘that’ can be used either as pronouns (see 31 ...
24.2 Ein words See 22.3 (p. 37) and 30.3 (p. 55). (a)kein, irgendein ‘not a/not any’, ‘any’ The negative kein is an ein word, ...
25.1 Most nouns with the following endings are masculine: -ant der Lieferant ‘distributor’ -ast der Palast ‘palace’ -ent der Dir ...
-in die Lehrerin ‘teacher’ -ion die Fusion ‘merger/fusion’ -keit die Schwierigkeit ‘difficulty’ -schaft die Freundschaft ‘friend ...
The vast majority of collective nouns with the prefix Ge- are also neuter: das Gebäck ‘cake and biscuits’, das Gepäck ‘luggage’, ...
26 Compound nouns and acronyms 26.1 The last part of a compound noun decides the overall gender and number: der Kupferstich ‘cop ...
28 Noun declensions 28.1 General rules for noun declension are that: (a) Feminine nouns do not change their ending in the singul ...
nach Hause ‘home’ zu Hause ‘at home’ im Laufe ‘in the course of’ im Grunde genommen ‘basically’ in gewissem Maße ‘to a certain d ...
28.4 Like strong verbs (see 33 ) and noun gender (see 27 ), irregularities in noun declension need to be learnt when the noun is ...
(a) Feminine nouns ending in: -e die Schulen ‘schools’ -ei die Metzgereien ‘butchers’ shops’ -heit die Weisheiten ‘wise sayings’ ...
(b) Diminutives in: -chen die Häuschen ‘small houses’ -lein die Entlein ‘ducklings’ See also 25.6a (p. 46) and 54.3 (p. 137). ...
29.8 Other miscellaneous plural forms (a) Greek and Latin derivations ending in -os, -us or -um usually take -en in the plural: ...
V Pronouns 30 Pronoun reference and forms 30.1 German pronouns preserve the gender and number (singular or plural) of the nouns ...
(b) Each pronoun also has an accusative and a dative form: (c) The genitive forms (meiner, deiner, seiner, ihrer, seiner, Ihrer; ...
When used predicatively (see 43 ), however, the possessive pronoun has two distinct forms. These are meiner (masculine nominativ ...
Welcher Politiker ist das? Which politician is that? An welchem Computer arbeitest du? Which computer are you working on? See ...
In the accusative and dative man becomes einen and einem respectively: Wenn man arbeitslos wird, trifft das einen hart. If you b ...
VI Verbs 33 Verb forms 33.1 Finite verb, infinitive and participle All verbs have (a) an infinitive form, (b) a present and a pa ...
33.2 Weak, strong and irregular verbs There are regular patterns which most verbs follow, though some verbs follow irregular pat ...
See also 89.1 (p. 322). The compound tenses are formed as follows: Perfect: a finite form of either haben or sein*, in the pr ...
«
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
»
Free download pdf