Depending on the type of words, the conjugation of the verbs, the declention of the nouns, the declension of the adjectives, the declension of the articles and the declension of the pronouns are distinguished. The generation of these verb forms and word forms follows grammatical rules or has ...
Don't forget to change the auxiliary verb depending on the noun it's paired with. Let's take a look at a few examples with verbs that form this tense with the help of the auxiliary verbhaben: Siehatsich ein neues Kleidgekauft.(She bought herself a new dress.) ...
Two-way prepositions can be used in either the accusative or the dative case, depending on the context. The noun that follows is what changes (usually the definite article or pronoun), not the actual preposition. The easiest rule to remember is that if something is “directional,” meaning ...
Depending on which case the noun is in, the article that comes before it will appear differently, so it may be ein Mann in the nominative but eines Mannes in the genitive, einen Mann in the accusative, and einem Mann in the dative. If the noun is also connected to an adjective, that ...
noun-verb-phrasesFunktionsverbgefügeIn this contribution, we study the use of the German verbs stehen ('to stand'), sitzen ('to sit') and their causative equivalents stellen ('to put in a standing position') and setzen ('to put in a sitting position') in noun-verb phrases, such as...
German reflexive pronouns are used with German reflexive verbs. Depending on what kind of object the verb takes, these are true reflexive verbs and pronouns or optional reflexive verbs and pronouns. The reflexive pronoun always follows the conjugated form of the verb. The best way of learning ref...
Cases affect nouns, and their case changes if they are the object, subject or indirect object in a sentence. Depending on the noun’s gender and sentence case, we might need to change their definite or indefinite article. You can see how genders and cases affect articles inthis really usefu...
For native English speakers, one of the most challenging aspects oflearning German, at least initially, can be the fact that each noun, pronoun, and article has four cases. Not only does every noun have a gender, but that gender also has four different variations, depending on where it lan...
as understanding the different articles. In English, the word “the” is so commonplace and simple to get to grips with that we take it for granted, but there is no simple “the” in German, you have to learn whether to useder, dieordas, depending on the “gender” of the noun. ...
Whereas plurals in -e (-ə) and -Ø may co-occur with umlaut or not, depending on the specific lexeme, nouns with plural -n never umlaut (4a,b) and nouns with plural -er [-ɐ] virtually always umlaut (4c,d): (4) (Non-)co-occurrence of umlaut and segmental plural allo...