Conditional clauses are dependent clauses that are introduced by the subordinating conjunction wenn. They express that an action will only take place under certain conditions. Conditional clauses can
The German future tense occurs far less frequently than it does in English because German often substitutes the present tense for the future, especially when
A German dative verb is one that normally takes an object in the dative case—usually without any other object. Yes, there are more lists to memorize, but
The following two-way prepositions are called Wechselpräpositionen in German (from the verb wechseln, to change). They’re accusative when they express motion/direction, and dative when they express only location. There
A few verbs have characteristics of irregular and regular verbs: their ending (-te- + personal ending) is regular but they have a vowel change. We call
The simple past tense endings are: -te (ich, er/sie/es), -test (du), -tet (ihr), and -ten (Sie, wir, sie [pl.]). Unlike English, the past tense ending is not always the
The imperative mood in German has several forms, and can be “softened” by adding flavoring particles (‘doch’ and ‘mal’) and the word ‘bitte’ (please). ‘Doch’
The dative case in German is one of the four German Cases and home of the indirect object, but it can also be used for
As with the other irregular verbs, the participles for mixed verbs need to be memorized. As their name implies, these mixed verbs mix elements of
German present perfect irregular verbs are formed by using strong (irregular) verbs. This past tense form is often referred to as the “conversational past” since
