Modern German Grammar: A Practical Guide, Second Edition
Ist das nicht ein teilweiser Widerspruch? Isn’t that a partial contradiction? Das ist eine teilweise Erklärung. That is a partia ...
nach- ‘after/follow, imitate, repeat’ etw. nach*schlagen ‘to look sth. up’ jmdm. etw. nach*machen ‘to imitate/copy sb.’ jmdm. na ...
er- produces verbs with an accusative object, and suggests going through to the final consequence of an action: jmdn. ermutigen ...
um- ‘around/change’ (her-)umgehen ‘to walk round’ jmdn./etw. umgehen ‘to evade sth. or sb.’ etw. umschreiben ‘to rewrite sth.’ e ...
IX Style and orthography 58 Formal and informal style The following features should be noted because they are characteristic of ...
etw./sich auf etw. (= acc.) vor*bereiten to prepare sth. or oneself for sth. Vorbereitung(en) für etwas treffen to make preparat ...
Kennst du den Harald? > Nein, kenn ich nicht. Do you know Harald? > No, don’t know him. See also 23.2g (p. 40). Hast du ...
any form of the formal second person pronoun Sie (see 30.2) and the related possessive adjective Ihr (see 30.3) an adjective wh ...
im Allgemeinen in general See 119.4 (p. 430). im Voraus in advance See 59.7 (p. 155) and 62.3 (p. 177). (e) Capital letter ...
These are written with a small letter and are undeclined when used as a standard numeral (like zwanzig, dreißig, etc.): nach hun ...
But st, ck, sch and ch are not split in simple words: Fen-ster window drü-cken to press wa-schen to wash Bü-cher books Prefixes ...
ss is written after a short vowel, e.g. Fluss [flus] ‘river’, Flüsse [flüse] ‘rivers’, Misserfolg [miserfolk] ‘failure’ ß is wri ...
A comma separates nouns in apposition (see 21 ): Wir haben den Brief unserem Nachbarn, dem Rechtsanwalt, gezeigt. We showed the ...
1 000 (eintausend) 1,000 (one thousand) 1,5 (eins komma fünf) 1.5 (one point five) 1 234,56 (eintausendzweihundertvierunddreiß ...
fertigbringen fertig bringen fertiggebracht fertig gebracht Fluß, Flüsse Fluss, Flüsse Flußsand Flusssand fönen föhnen Geographi ...
Part B Functions ...
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X Social contact 60 Greeting The following are the most common expressions for ‘to greet’ in German: jmdn. grüßen ‘to greet sb.’ ...
by teachers when addressing pupils in the senior classes of secondary school for all student–lecturer communication in higher e ...
(c) In southern Germany and Austria Grüß Gott! is frequently employed, as is Servus! (lit. ‘your servant’), which can also mean ...
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