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German Features

German Features. Reference. Around the world , German is spoken by approximately 105 million native speakers and also by about 80 million non native speakers . Even when English is an universal language; German continues having and impact i n people communication

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German Features

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  1. GermanFeatures Reference Aroundtheworld, Germanisspokenby approximately 105 millionnativespeakers and alsobyabout 80 millionnon nativespeakers. Even when English is an universal language; German continues having and impact in people communication German is a language that came from Proto Indo European Languages even the time this language continues keeping some of these language` features Comment

  2. In Germanall of thethreegenders of theProto Indo EuropeanLanguages; themasculine, thefeminine, and theneuter Reference Comment It means that German language kept Proto Indo European features in order to get its own grammar aspects. It is a little different from English language because in English we will find just masculine and feminine nouns. On the other hand; German classify some nouns as neuter.

  3. Reference Second position doesnotequalsecondword,. It is a big difference between German Language and English language because in English the second position almost always is equal to a second word. However, in German a second position does not mean a second word at all . Comments Example • He knows. • Der Mann weiß.

  4. Nouns in German are easy to identify because they are all capitalized. Peter (Peter), Koffer(suitcase), Firma (company), Buch(book) are also nouns. • Example: • Our son is driving to the city by car. • Unser Sohnfährtmitdem Auto in die Stadt. Reference It is other important difference between these two languages. All the German` nouns are capitalized but in English it is happening just for personification or at the beginning of one sentence . Comment • Other example is the vowel /e/ at the end of German` words because almost any of these words have a silent /e/ as we have in English` words • Example name (German), name (English) Comment

  5. “I see a woman”, “a woman” can be replaced in English by the direct object pronoun “her”, so it would be “I see her”, the same thing happens in German: • Example • I see her • Ichsehesie Reference Comment It is a similarity between these two languages ; in this case both of them have the same grammar feature

  6. Links betweenGerman and EnglishLanguages Voiceless sounds become voiced between vowels 1 Sieben (German) Seven (English) In this example we can see how /b/ in “sieben” was replace by a voiced consonant /v/ in “seven” placing it between vowels. Also; there is not a lot of difference in pronunciation from German to English in this example

  7. Stops become fricatives (under certain conditions) 2 Ship (English) Schiff (German) This is other example how German is not totally different from English. The stop consonant /p / in “ship” was replaced by the consonants /ff/ which are fricative consonants. Also; the pronunciation is not different at all.

  8. Consonants become voiceless at the end of words 3 Bit (English) Biss (German) Taking into account some similarities between modern English and German languages I would like to say that this example shows how the final consonant became Fricative in the German` word. At the same time; I would like to mention that the pronunciation does not differ a lot

  9. Getting a new structures 4 Telefonummer (German) Telephonenumber (English) It is a very easy example in which we can see how a grammar feature changed getting a big difference. In German example we have just home joined word but we are able to understand it. On the other hand; in English example we get two new words expressing the same meaning that we understood from the German example

  10. Cognates words 5 Willkommen (German) Welcome (English) In this example we have the same word` base but there is a reconstruction and elimination of repetitive consonants in the German example. At the end we get the same word without some consonants

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