Basic German
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Basic German
(Teach yourself books)
Teach Yourself, 1988
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Includes bibliography and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a first introduction to German for anyone who wants to acquire a basic knowledge of the language. The course consists of 27 short units and is carefully graded so that by the end of the book the reader will have learnt the essential core vocabulary and grammar of German quite painlessly.
Table of Contents
- Pronouncing German
- "the" and "a", making simple sentences, he, she and it
- verbs - I, we, you and they, who and what
- my and your, the noun as object, giving orders, vowel changes and verbs
- to be, plural nouns, for, into, etc.
- adjectives before the noun, modifying verbs, konnen, durfen etc
- object pronouns, prepositions, kein
- contracted forms - in, on etc, to me, to you, word order in sentences
- order of objects, compound nouns, reflexive verbs
- using the future, wann? wie? wo?, to put, to know, to live, more plural nouns
- separable and inseparable verbs, possession, preposition compounds
- prepositions, es gibt, dependent clauses
- endings, numbers 8-100, ich mochte
- days, months, seasons, "in order to", possession, conjuctions
- time, ordinal numbers, word order, plurals, in -s
- the perfect tense, "to look", past participles
- quantity, comparison
- the perfect tense, linking words - who, which, that
- inseparable prefixes, whose
- constructions with -ing, "I like"
- the simple past, prepositions, the pluperfect, werden, past participles, adverbs
- the simple past, stong verbs
- when, helping, following etc., either...or
- modifying verbs, what sort of?, position of nicht
- hin and her, forming new words
- "would", modifying verbs, verbs with no subject
- some, something, hatte and ware
- key to exercises
- vocabulary.
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