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German Subordinate Clauses: How to Make Complex Sentences
German subordinate clauses are used to give additional information about the main part of the sentence. While the ‘main clause’ can stand on it’s own, a subordinate clause always has to pair with a main…
German Conjunctions: Everything You Need To Know
You won’t be learning German for long before you encounter German conjunctions. These little words such as ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘or’, ‘because’ and ‘if’ are used to link sentences together. After reading this post you will…
German Reflexive Verbs [& How to Form Correct Sentences]
As an English speaker, you could be forgiven for not being familiar with reflexive verbs. We do have them, but reflexive verbs in German are far more common. What can seem like a confusing topic…
The German Cases [& How to Stop Making Mistakes]
What are German Cases? The German cases (Die Kasus / Die Fälle) are the four grammatical cases which change depending the role each noun has in any sentence. The four German cases are: NominativeAccusativeDativeGenitive Every…
23 German Verbs with Prepositions [You Need To Know]
So you’re interested in German. Do you dream of visiting Germany? Or maybe you are looking forward to your next trip there. If you really want to use your German, you’ll need to get to…
This is Better! How to Form German Comparative & Superlative
When you start learning German, you’ll learn about adjectives (describing words) in their basic form, such as ‘German is easy’. But before long you’ll want to compare two things in a sentence such as ‘German…