German Grammar Overviews

Ingeborg Walther

Duke University

   

Table of Contents

 

·        Gender of Nouns (Tips)

·        Articles, Pronouns, Possessive Adjectives

·        Cases

·        Usage

·        Forms

·        Prepositions

·        Expressing time

·        Expressing location and direction

·        Location “wo?”: the prepositions “at, in, on”

·        Direction “wohin?”: the preposition "to"

·        Verbs Tenses

·        Overview of Tenses

·        Overview of Past Tenses

·        Formation of Present Tense

·        Formation of Simple Past Tense

·        Formation of Present Perfect Tense

·        Formation of Future Tenses

·        Principal Parts of Strong and Irregular Weak Verbs

·        Imperative

·        Reflexive Verbs

Reflexive Pronouns

Reflexive Verbs

·        Modal Verbs

·        Present and Simple Past Tense Forms

·        Tenses and Usage

·        "Semi" Modals (sehen, helfen, hören, lassen)

·        “Semi” Modals

·        The Verb “lassen”

·        Subjective Use of Modal Verbs

·        Connecting Clauses

Coordinating Conjunctions (und, aber, oder, sondern, denn)

Subordinating Conjunctions / Subordinate Clauses

·        Relative Clauses

·        Infinitive Phrases

·        Word Order

·        Adjectives

·        Attibutive Adjectives (endings)

·        Comparative and Superlative

·        Passive Voice

·        Usage and Formation

·        Summary of Forms

·        Subjunctive II

·        Usage and Formation

·        Summary of Forms

·        Subjunctive I

·        Verbs with fixed prepositions (List)

·        Participial Constructions

·        Present and Past Participles

·        Extended Adjective Constructions