German Conversation-grammar: A New and Practical Method of Learning the German Language |
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Common terms and phrases
accent accusative adjective adverbs apple auxiliary Bäume become Blume book brother Buch case children compound conjugation consonants dative daughter declension declined definite definite article determinative diminutives diphthong ending English Examples father feminine first fleißig flower followed following form formed four French Freund friends garden gehen gelobt gender genitive German give good groß Haus horse house Imperfect Indicative Infinitive interrogative iſt Kind king Knabe know Lesson letter little loben long love Mann masc masculine monosyllabic mood mother muß neuter nominative Note nouns number numeral o'clock Participle past Perf place Plur plural poor praise praised prefix preposition Pres Present Tense pronoun proper name pupil read Reading Exercise remain same Schloß second ſein sentence ſie ſind Singular sister Sohn sometimes sound speak substantives syllable take termination third thou three time town translated twenty unsere used Vater verb vowel Wein weiß words year
Popular passages
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