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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
Nouns
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Words like the following are called nouns. In the German language, all nouns are written with a capital initial letter.
Mann, Hund, Rose, Haus, Zeitung, Wasser, Holz, Klaus, Bayern, Liebe, Stolz, Freundschaft, Schlag, Alter
Nouns are divided in two categories: in concrete nouns, that refer to people, animals, plants or objects and in abstract nouns, that refer to actions, state, properties, conditions etc.
Nouns can be used as subject, object, predicative expression, adverbial or attribute:
Examples | |
subject | Meine Mutter kocht sehr gut. |
object | Alexander studiert Medizin. |
predicative expression | Ihr Ehemann ist Pilot. |
adverbial | Morgen fliegen wir nach Berlin. |
attribute | Das Interesse der Menschen war sehr groß. |
Each noun belongs to a gender, indicated mainly by the definite article that accompanies the noun. There are three genders:
Examples | ||
gender | masculine | der Motor |
feminine | die Nacht | |
neuter | das Buch |
Nouns are inflected in number and case. In the German language, there are two numbers
Examples | ||
number | singular | Frau |
plural | Frauen |
and four cases:
Examples | ||
case | nominative | Haus |
genitive | Hauses | |
dative | Haus | |
accusative | Haus |