So, you’ve been learning German for quite some time. You’ve got to grips with verb conjugations in the present tense, worked out how to form a past tense sentence and you can predict the future! Maybe not😉, but whatever future tense sentence it may be, you can say it in German! And then you hear … Read more
I wrote a blog post about German plural nouns (Which German nouns take an e or umlaut & e in the plural?) a few months ago. If you read it, you’ll recognize the first few paragraphs of the general introduction to German plural nouns. In that case you’ll have my permission to scroll half way … Read more
The German verb legen mean to lay/ put/ place. It gets conjugated as follows: The perfect tense goes with ‘haben’ and the past participle is ‘gelegt’, and in the imperfect tense it’s ‘ich legte’. This page contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I’ll get a few pence if you buy anything – at no … Read more
A few months ago I received a lovely email from Robertson B. Kunz with the request to review his book called ‘Comparative Grammar of German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Yiddish and Frisian’. My initial thought was “Why would I want to advertise a book that teaches German grammar when I teach German grammar myself?” My second thought … Read more
This might sound familiar to you: You want to say that you don’t do something, for example, you don’t travel by bus. You learn to use the word ‘nicht’: Ich fahre nicht mit dem Bus. Then you want to say that you don’t have a car and say ‘Ich habe nicht ein Auto’ and your … Read more
Today’s post is a follow-up to indem oder in dem? and sowie oder so wie? Both covered words which Germans sometime struggle to spell correctly, as one or two words. This time we’re loooking at daraufhin and darauf hin, again words where even Germans aren’t always sure whether to spell them as one or two … Read more
Let’s talk about the future!I have written about the future tense before. In my post How to use ‘ich will’ and ‘ich werde’ when talking about the future in German and also in my post How to say New Year’s resolutions in German Today I show you another easy way to talk about the future … Read more
Last month I wrote a blog post about indem & in dem and how to work out when you write indem and when in dem. Today’s blog post tells you about sowie and so wie. sowie (plus, as well as) Here are some examples: In the following three sentences you could also have used und … Read more
This page contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I’ll get a few pence if you buy anything – at no extra cost to you. When my students come across German gender for the first time, and they’re learning whether a noun is masculine, feminine or neuter, they often despair. Then after a while they … Read more
So you’re reading this German text and come across a sentence like this one ‘Sie verbessert ihr Deutsch, indem sie jeden Tag Vokabeln lernt‘. And then you read ‘In dem Textbuch findet sie viele Vokabeln‘. And you think “Is there a spelling mistake or why is there an ‘indem’ and an ‘in dem’?” Well, it’s … Read more
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