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Adjectival nouns

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Reported Speech and Konjunktiv I

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Commands

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Reciprocal Verbs and Einander

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Reflexive Verbs

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Reflexive Pronouns

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Adjectives and Adjectival Endings

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How to Use a Dictionary

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General Tips & Tricks

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Relative Pronouns3

German GrammarPod is a podcast about German grammar for people learning the German language.

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Not for beginners. My only complaint: She talks WAY too quickly. Otherwise, very good.

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German GrammarPod

The simple past - also known as the preterite or the imperfect tense - is equivalent in form to the English I did form (ich tat es). The way that regular verbs form their simple past is by a  or  being inserted into the present tense ending. For instance ich kaufe - I buy  becomes ich kaufte - I bought and du kaufst - you buy  becomes du kauftest - you bought.The German simple past is mainly used in written German, where it can express most past tenses expressed in English by either the I have done  or the I did forms. It also crops up in spoken German, where it is preferred over the perfect tense for the auxiliary verbs (particularly haben and sein) and the modal verbs (müssen, sollen, mögen, können, dürfen, wollen) and also - in Central and Northern Germany - for some other common verbs.To listen to my podcast on your computer, click here.

The simple past - also known as the preterite or the imperfect tense - is equivalent in form to the English I did form (ich tat es). The way that regular verbs form their simple past is by a or being inserted into the present tense ending. For instance ich kaufe - I buy becomes ich kaufte - I bought and du kaufst - you buy becomes du kauftest - you bought. The German simple past is mainly used in written German, where it can express most past tenses expressed in English by either the I have done or the I did forms. It also crops up in spoken German, where it is preferred over the perfect tense for the auxiliary verbs (particularly haben and sein) and the modal verbs (müssen, sollen, mögen, können, dürfen, wollen) and also - in Central and Northern Germany - for some other common verbs. To listen to my podcast on your computer, click <a href="http://www.archive.org/download/LauraTheSimplePast/PastTensesTheSimplePast.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.

The Simple Past

This podcast is about cases, which are a way of showing what role the different words are playing in a sentence. German has four cases:  Nominative Accusative Dative Gentitive  This podcast describes how cases work in general, then goes on to look at the nominative case in more detail.  To listen to the audio file directly on your computer, click here. Or, if you'd like to subscribe to the podcast, click the link on the top left of this blog.

This podcast is about cases, which are a way of showing what role the different words are playing in a sentence. German has four cases: <ul> <li>Nominative</li> <li>Accusative</li> <li>Dative</li> <li>Gentitive</li> </ul> This podcast describes how cases work in general, then goes on to look at the nominative case in more detail. To listen to the audio file directly on your computer, <a href="http://archive.org/download/LauraCases_TheNominative/Nominative.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">click here</a>. Or, if you'd like to subscribe to the podcast, click the link on the top left of this blog.

Cases: The Nominative Case

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This episode is about more of the really practical stuff you need to know about the conditional. To listen to the episode directly on your computer, click <a href="http://www.archive.org/download/LauraTheConditional-part2/Conditional2.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.

The Conditional - Part 2

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Word Order - Multi-Clause Sentences

The perfect tense is one of three German past tense forms. It's also the one that's most commonly used in spoken German, so very useful to learn. The perfect tense is a compound tense. This means it uses two verbs: an auxiliary (or helper) verb and a main verb. Most of the time, the auxiliary verb is haben, which means to have. But for some verbs, especially intransitive verbs of motion and intransitive change-of-state verbs, the auxiliary verb is sein, which means to be. The main verb then shoots along to the end of the clause and appears in the form of a past participle. As a rule of thumb, you create the past participle of a verb from its infinitive by adding a ge- on the beginning, and sometimes you switch the  or the  on the end for a . Two examples of how you make a perfect tense sentence are:Ich habe ein Eis gegessen - I have eaten an ice creamIch bin in die Schule gegangen - I've gone to schoolYou can listen to this podcast directly on your computer by clicking here.While I was researching this podcast, I found a couple of particularly useful websites. Here are the English ones:A description of when to use the different German past tenses:http://german.about.com/library/verbs/blverb_past.htmA description of how to use the German perfect tense:http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/German_Grammar:Verbs:Past_Tenses:Perfect_TenseExercises (particularly suitable for beginners) to practise using the perfect tense:http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/rgshiwyc/school/curric/German/Revision/German_Perfect_Tense/index.htmAnd here are the German ones (two descriptions of when Germans say you should use the perfect tense and when the simple past (also known as the imperfect tense or the preterite)):http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A4teritumhttp://home.schule.at/cometo/latein-griechisch/grammatikmerkblaetter/perfektimperfektverwendung.htm

The perfect tense is one of three German past tense forms. It's also the one that's most commonly used in spoken German, so very useful to learn. The perfect tense is a compound tense. This means it uses two verbs: an auxiliary (or helper) verb and a main verb. Most of the time, the auxiliary verb is haben, which means to have. But for some verbs, especially intransitive verbs of motion and intransitive change-of-state verbs, the auxiliary verb is sein, which means to be. The main verb then shoots along to the end of the clause and appears in the form of a past participle. As a rule of thumb, you create the past participle of a verb from its infinitive by adding a ge- on the beginning, and sometimes you switch the or the on the end for a . Two examples of how you make a perfect tense sentence are: Ich habe ein Eis gegessen - I have eaten an ice cream Ich bin in die Schule gegangen - I've gone to school You can listen to this podcast directly on your computer by clicking <a href="http://www.archive.org/download/Laura8PastTenses_ThePerfectTense/PastTensesThePerfectTense1.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. While I was researching this podcast, I found a couple of particularly useful websites. Here are the English ones: A description of when to use the different German past tenses: <a href="http://german.about.com/library/verbs/blverb_past.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://german.about.com/library/verbs/blverb_past.htm</a> A description of how to use the German perfect tense: <a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/German_Grammar:Verbs:Past_Tenses:Perfect_Tense" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/German_Grammar:Verbs:Past_Tenses:Perfect_Tense</a> Exercises (particularly suitable for beginners) to practise using the perfect tense: <a href="http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/rgshiwyc/school/curric/German/Revision/German_Perfect_Tense/index.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/rgshiwyc/school/curric/German/Revision/German_Perfect_Tense/index.htm </a> And here are the German ones (two descriptions of when Germans say you should use the perfect tense and when the simple past (also known as the imperfect tense or the preterite)): <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A4teritum" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A4teritum</a> <a href="http://home.schule.at/cometo/latein-griechisch/grammatikmerkblaetter/perfektimperfektverwendung.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://home.schule.at/cometo/latein-griechisch/grammatikmerkblaetter/perfektimperfektverwendung.htm</a>

Past Tenses: How to Use The Perfect

The conditional basically means sentences with a would. For instance, if I were rich, I would buy a house. To download this podcast directly on your computer, click here.

The conditional basically means sentences with a would. For instance, if I were rich, I would buy a house. To download this podcast directly on your computer, <a href="http://www.archive.org/download/LauraTheConditional1/Conditional1.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">click here</a>.

The Conditional and Umlauts

German word order in a completely standard, neutral main clause is a follows:* nominative subject,* conjugated verb,* accusative then dative pronoun,* nouns with definite determiners, in the order dative, accusative* most adverbials* nicht – or other negation particles* adverbials of manner* nouns with indefinite determiners, in the order dative, accusative* the complement, and finally* any other verbs.My podcast on German word order contains more information about what those terms mean, and also a more detailed version of word order. You can listen to the podcast directly on your computer by clicking here.

German word order in a completely standard, neutral main clause is a follows: * nominative subject, * conjugated verb, * accusative then dative pronoun, * nouns with definite determiners, in the order dative, accusative * most adverbials * nicht – or other negation particles * adverbials of manner * nouns with indefinite determiners, in the order dative, accusative * the complement, and finally * any other verbs. My podcast on German word order contains more information about what those terms mean, and also a more detailed version of word order. You can listen to the podcast directly on your computer by clicking <a href="http://www.archive.org/download/LauraWordOrder_TheStandardMainClause/Word_Order_1.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.

Word Order in a Standard Main Clause

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