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WORD GRAMMAR
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Verb
- Conjugation in indicative
- Person and number
- Tenses
- Voice
- Mood
- Verb categories
- Valency
- Semantic categories of verbs
- Finite / non-finite verb forms
- Noun
- Adjective
- Adverb
- Article
- Pronoun
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Particle
- Interjection
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Verb
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SENTENCE GRAMMAR
- Clause types
- Complex clauses
- Constituents of a sentence
- Sentence structure
- Word order in a sentence
- Negation
Meaning
MA6
Conjunctions can be categorized in the following groups, according to their meaning.
| copulative |
| disjunctive |
| adversative (contrastive) |
| final |
| causal |
| conditional |
| consecutive |
| concessive |
| modal |
| temporal |
| empty |
Some conjunctions belong to more than one semantic category.
| Examples | ||
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als
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Als ich ihn sah, konnte ich ihn nicht wiedererkennen. | temporal |
| Das Restaurant ist viel teurer, als du mir gesagt hast. | modal | |
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um ... zu
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Ich spare Geld, um ein neues Auto zu kaufen. | final |
| Es ist heute zu windig, um surfen zu gehen. | consecutive | |
