In German, 3 of the most common verbs you’ll encounter are the German auxiliary verbs. Also known as the ‘German helping verbs’ (Hilfsverben), they are used to form the present tense, simple past / imperfect tense (Präteritum) and the past tense (Perfekt). The 3 German auxiliary verbs are sein (to be), haben (to have), for…
If the German language is famous for anything, it’s its terrifyingly long words. Even if you asked someone who knew nothing about German, what their impression of the language was, they’d likely know that German has some seriously long words. These words are known as compound nouns in German, and after reading this post you…
![German Capitalization Rules [That You Need To Know]](https://emmalovesgerman.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/capitalization-768x475.jpg)
Whether you’ve only recently started learning German, or if you’ve been studying the language for a while, you’ve probably noticed that German uses a lot more capitalization than English. The German capitalization rules can be confusing at first, but once you get the hang of these simple rules you’ll be able to correctly capitalize German…
![German Separable Verbs [Everything You Need to Know]](https://emmalovesgerman.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/separable-verbs-768x474.jpg)
What Are German Separable Verbs? German separable verbs (Trennbare Verben) are a special type of verb which have a prefix at the front of them. These prefixes are added to verbs to change the meaning of the original verb. Some of these prefixes are separable, some are inseparable and some can be both. In certain…
![German Da Words [How to Use: damit, darüber, darauf…]](https://emmalovesgerman.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/german-da-words-768x475.jpg)
After reading this post, you will understand: What Are German Da Words? German ‘da words’ are an extremely useful group of words, but can take some getting used to. Da- is a prefix which appears in front of a number of prepositions. They are used to refer back to an object which was mentioned earlier…