Tests for Gender and Plural in German

Exercises-tests to repeat the theory about gender, declension and plural in the German language. Plural, declension, and gender in German. Feminine genderPlural, declension, and gender in German. Masculine genderPlural, declension, and gender in German. Neuter gender All words in the tests were mentioned in the theoretical part. All tasks are based on choosing several correct … Read more

Plural, declension, and gender in German. Feminine gender

Femininum im Deutschen Genus im Deutschen

Usually, German learners are advised to memorize words along with articles. This is all great, but it doesn’t help people with a not very good memory, especially if you didn’t learn the language at school but in courses and had to learn it in a year to B1. The result is usually complete chaos in the vocabulary. Let’s try to put it in a more structured form. There are quite a few groups of words that you can divide into one gender or another based on their meaning or ending. In the first part, we will look at the simplest feminine gender.

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Verbs with prepositions in German. Preposition um and preposition über

Often verbs with prepositions in German form a fixed connection. Sometimes this connection is so close that the verb without a preposition is not used at all. There are lists of verbs with prepositions (look at the end of your textbook). But we’ll go a little different way: we will begin to analyze groups of prepositions in terms of their meaning to make it easier to remember.

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Description of a person’s appearance in German. 3. How to avoid repetition in essay

German language, with its very fixed order, requires special attention to repeating of the beginning of a sentence. Here we will look, how to avoid repetition in essay in German. Also, in any essay in any language, it is very important not to repeat verbs. In describing appearance, the verb “to have” is too active. Therefore, let’s explore alternative verbs and constructions.

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Past tense in German. Perfect and preterite

The past tense in German is covered almost entirely by only two tenses – Perfekt and Präteritum. It’s a master skill if you master the Plusquamperfekt, but in reality, 100 percent of the time you can avoid it. In this topic, we will look at
how the perfect and the preterite differ from each other,
when they use haben or sein in the perfect,
and at the end we will give tables of irregular verbs by group.

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