Not only will learning idioms improve your German comprehension, but it’ll also give you insight into German culture and history. German idioms are chock-full of
When selbst precedes the noun or phrase to which it relates, then it has the emphatic meaning “even”, as an adverb. In other positions, selbst is completely equivalent to selber,
In English, we would say “the more you practice, the better you will speak German.” In German, these types of parallel comparatives are called Proportionalsätze. Je+
Prepositions in combination with verbs can specify things like position, time, possession or the way something is done. German verbs with prepositions can have fixed
Demonstrative pronouns in German, just like in English, is used to point to something specific within a sentence. A demonstrative pronoun can be used for
Most two-part conjunctions in German have direct English equivalents, so it’s faster to learn them by example than to break them down grammatically. The easiest