German quickly : a grammar for reading German /
This book is a thorough, straightforward textbook with a sense of fun. It teaches the fundamentals for reading German literary and scholarly texts of all levels of difficulty. It can be used as an introductory text for scholars with no background in German, or it can serve as a reference text for st...
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| Language: | English German |
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New York :
P. Lang,
c2004
New York : ©2004 New York : [2004] |
| Edition: | Rev. ed |
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Table of Contents:
- Partial Table of Contents : (Contents listed in bold face type are those which students often need to refer to.) PRONUNCIATION GUIDE CHAPTER 1: A GENERAL INTRODUCTION cognates; genders; compounds; ways of forming plurals; summary of rules for recognizing plurals (1.6); singular, plural practice CHAPTER 2: THE PRESENT TENSE OF VERBS AND THE PERSONAL PRONOUNS................ present tense of regular verbs; pronouns; sein, haben; irregular second and third person singular patterns; wissen, werden; exercises, vocabulary; tips for memorizing vocabulary (2.10); vocabulary aid; place names CHAPTER 3, part I: THE CASE ENDINGS nominative; accusative; sometimes the object can appear before the verb (3.3); genitive; -s as a genitive singular ending (3.7); exercises, vocabulary CHAPTER 3, part II: THE CASE ENDINGS dative; placement of dative in a clause (3.12); declension charts (3.15; 3.16); when nouns have endings to reveal the case (3.17); exercises; der words; kein; importance of case endings; exercises, vocabulary, vocabulary aid CHAPTER 4: ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS adjectives, including a chart (4.1); strong endings, including adjectives after the indefinite article ein; weak adjective endings (4.2); two or more adjectives; predicate adjectives; adverbs (4.8); exercises, vocabulary; vocabulary aid; cognate practice CHAPTER 5, part I: PREPOSITIONS general information about prepositions; der following a preposition is feminine dative 95% of the time (5.5); accusative prepositions; dative prepositions CHAPTER 5, part II: PREPOSITIONS................................... prepositions taking either dative or accusative; genitive prepositions; exercises, vocabulary, vocabulary aid; Reading Selection: Fräulein Meier; importance of case endings (5.16) ...