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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
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- Article
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- 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
The modal verb können
Können mainly expresses possibility or impossibility.
Certain objective circumstances render something possible or impossible.
| Examples | meaning | objective circumstances |
| Der Popstar konnte auf dem Konzert nicht singen. | possibility | Die Mikrofonanlage war defekt. |
| Ich kann nicht schwimmen. | impossibility | Es gibt gerade extrem hohe Wellen und sehr starken Wind. |