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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
Copular (linking) verbs
Copular (linking) verbs sein, werden and bleiben form the predicate of a sentence only when combined with a predicative expression. A predicative expression is usually a noun in the nominative case, a non-inflected adjective or, more seldom, an adverb.
Examples | predicative expression |
Die Stereoanlage ist kaputt. | adjective |
Dr. Maier ist Augenarzt. | noun |
Lena wird Lehrerin. | noun |
Er bleibt ein guter Mensch. | noun |
Das ist aber nicht immer so. | adverb |