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The Secret of the German Language

The Secret of the German Language. Lesson 9: This is the last lesson in the series! Yee-haw! If you understand all of this, then your teacher can sit down while YOU teach the class! Plus your German friends will be very impressed at your perfect German. The Secret of the German Language.

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The Secret of the German Language

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  1. The Secret of the German Language • Lesson 9: • This is the last lesson in the series! • Yee-haw! • If you understand all of this, then your teacher can sit down while YOU teach the class! • Plus your German friends will be very impressed at your perfect German.

  2. The Secret of the German Language • Today we get the final prepositions. • We also start some contractions. • After we start contractions, we go into labor. • Pretty soon we give birth to a beautiful bouncing baby sentence. • So get out your preliminary notes again. • Write down the following genitive prepositions.

  3. The Secret of the German Language • anstatt (instead of) • trotz (in spite of) • während (during) • wegen (because of) • Genitive will be taken. • Anstatt is often shortened to statt.

  4. -e masculine feminine neuter plural -en Nominative (Subject) adjective Endings Accusative (Direct Object) Dative (Indirect Object) Genitive (Possessive) I’m sure you can figure out that when you see these four prepositions, the phrase uses the genitive case.

  5. -e masculine feminine neuter plural -en Nominative (Subject) adjective Endings Accusative (Direct Object) Dative (Indirect Object) Genitive (Possessive) So if you want to write a sentence like: The boy is singing instead of his mother. You would write: Der Junge singt statt seiner Mutter.

  6. -e masculine feminine neuter plural -en Nominative (Subject) adjective Endings Accusative (Direct Object) Dative (Indirect Object) Genitive (Possessive) How about this sentence? I’m learning something despite my teachers! Ich lerne ja etwas trozt meiner Lehrer!

  7. -e masculine feminine neuter plural -en Nominative (Subject) adjective Endings Accusative (Direct Object) Dative (Indirect Object) Genitive (Possessive) Do you remember this one? Sabine and Brigitte talk during the break Sabine und Brigitte redenwährendder Pause.

  8. -e masculine feminine neuter plural -en Nominative (Subject) adjective Endings Accusative (Direct Object) Dative (Indirect Object) Genitive (Possessive) Okay, how about this one: Because of that cake, I’m now fat. Wegen des Kuchens bin ich jetzt dick.

  9. The Secret of the German Language • Finally a number of these prepositions are commonly contracted with certain articles. • I’d like you to write these final notes in your preliminary notes. • Title these common contractions. • As you see each one, guess what two German words were contracted.

  10. The Secret of the German Language • zum • zur • im • ins • fürs • vom • beim • aufs • ans

  11. -e masculine feminine neuter plural -en Nominative (Subject) adjective Endings Accusative (Direct Object) Dative (Indirect Object) Genitive (Possessive) So if you want to say: I go to the school You can say Ich gehe zu der Schule.

  12. -e masculine feminine neuter plural -en Nominative (Subject) adjective Endings Accusative (Direct Object) Dative (Indirect Object) Genitive (Possessive) Ich gehe zu der Schule. But most Germans would say: Ich gehe zur Schule.

  13. The Secret of the German Language • Here’s the final tip: • Days, months, seasons, and most weather-related nouns are masculine • Nouns that end in –ik are feminine (Grammatik!) • And the best tips: • Es istkein Meister vomHimmelgefallen . . . • Übungmacht den Meister • So keep working at it!

  14. adjective Endings -e masculine feminine neuter plural -en Nominative (Subject) Accusative (Direct Object) Dative (Indirect Object) Genitive (Possessive)

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