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Adjectival Nouns in German: Because German adjective endings carry considerable information about case, gender, and number, the noun that they modify can sometimes seem redundant. When Germans refer to Ex-Chancellor Helmut Kohl as der Dicke (the fat man), they don't need a further noun, since the der, followed by the -e ending on dick tells us that we are dealing with a single masculine ...
The Special Subjunctive Mood in German (Konjunktiv I): Just like English, German bases the special subjunctive on the stem of the present tense forms. It then adds the same endings as does the general subjunctive (Konjunktiv II): ich mach e / hab e / fahr e / seh e. wir mach en / hab en / fahr en / seh en. du mach est / hab est / fahr est / seh ...
The Dartmouth Professor of German Language Emeritus Bruce Duncan, the Dartmouth Professor of German Language emeritus, retired in June, 2015, after 46 years of teaching at the college. He studied at Williams College and Cornell (Ph.D. 1969), as well as at the University of Munich and the Free University of Berlin.
Our discussion of word order has been equating the German sentence with main, or independent, clauses, but we can also also use our model to describe dependent, or subordinate, clauses. These units of grammatical organization consist of a subject and predicate, but they are dependent on a main clause. They fall into two categories, each defined ...
4 George O. Curme's Grammar of the German Language (New York: Macmillan, 1922) lists a total of 123 prepositions that take the genitive (p. 357), but most are very rare or confined to legal language. They include "anlässlich" [ on the occasion of ], "angesichts" [ in the face of; in view of ], "betreffs" [ regarding; in reference to ], "infolge" [ as a result of; owing to ], "ungeachtet ...
Note: Many Germans use "wie" instead of "als" ("Ich bin besser wie du"), but this construction is considered to be bad grammar. Even speakers who do it themselves will correct a foreigner who makes this mistake. Intensifiers: to indicate a progressive development, English repeats the comparative ("Things are getting better and better"). German ...
The Dative Case (der Dativ) Your team sits in three countries. And yet in the same office. In English: In standard English, the indirect object is marked either by a prepositional phrase, word order or by certain forms of personal pronoun (me, us, him, her, and them). Thus: "He gave his girlfriend a diamond ring;" "He gave a diamond ring to his ...
