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Day: July 10, 2023

Soccer player in action on the soccer stadium
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German Review of all Tenses

There are 6 basic tenses in German. The two ‘simple’ tenses are present and simple past. They use just one, conjugated verb. The four ‘compound’

Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany
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German Idioms

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

Useful Basic German Phrases
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Use the German Personal Pronoun ‘Es’

The German personal pronoun es is the English equivalent of it and has similar functions. Es is certainly used as “it” in both the nominative

Self portrait
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German selber and selbst

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,

Multiracial senior friends playing guess who forehead game outdoor - Focus on african woman face
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German Relative Pronoun Types

A Relative Pronoun is a pronoun that introduces two types of clauses, namely, a relative clause/ adjective clause and a noun clause. The commonly used

In order to be successful, you have to keep working
German ‘Je-desto’ and ‘umso’ Clauses

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+

Happy family moving at the airport hall
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German Verbs with Prepositions

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

This one looks nice!
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German Demonstrative Pronouns

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

Im cool either way
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Two-Part Conjunctions

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