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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
Present
The present tense can express the present, the future and the past
Examples | time |
Ich esse (gerade) ein Stück Kuchen. | present |
Ich fahre nächtes Jahr nach Italien. | future |
Ich steige gestern in den Buss ein, da stoße ich auf einen alten Freund. | past |
The present tense is only seldom used to refer to past facts.