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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
Declarative clauses (unreal)
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The Konjunktiv II is used in declarative clauses like
Examples |
Allein hättest du das nie geschafft. |
In einem solchen Fall wäre sein Beitrag nutzlos. |
An deiner Stelle würde ich meinen Kindern nicht im Stich lassen. |
Eine Goldkette hätte deiner Frau mehr gefallen. |
Vor lauter Wut hätte er den Schiedrichter beinahe geschlagen. |
These are main clauses that express something unreal, imaginary, something that can only exist under certain conditions. Most times, however, they are elliptically formed conditional clauses of the unreal:
Example | ||
Allein hättest du das nie geschafft. |
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Wenn du allein gewesen wärst, hättest du das nie geschafft. |
main clause
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conditional clause (unreal)
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