Essential German Grammar by Stern, Guy -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

DOVER BOOKS ON LANGUAGE Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Introduction Suggestions for Vocabulary Building

Abbreviations and Note

How to Turn Statements into Questions How to Negate Statements Nouns

Using Nouns in German Noun Groups Irregular Nouns Mixed Declensions

Articles and Pronominal Adjectives

Gender and the Definite Article The Word for “the” - (The Definite Article) The Words for “a” and “an” - (The Indefinite Article) The “der-words” The “ein-words” The Word “kein”

Adjectives and Adverbs

Adjective Endings Adjectives with “der-words” Adjectives with “ein-words” Independent Adjectives Predicate Adjectives Comparison of Adjectives Using the Comparative and Superlative of Adjectives Making Comparisons Adverbs The Word “gern”

Pronouns

Personal Pronouns How to Say “you” Relative Pronouns Word Order after Relative Pronouns Interrogative Pronouns

Prepositions

Contracted Forms

Simple Verbs

The Present Tense Forming the Present Tense in German Forming the Present Tense of Stem-changing Verbs The Verbs “to be” and “to have” The Past Participle How to Tell a Strong Verb from a Weak Verb Forming the Past Participle of Weak Verbs Forming the Past Participle of Strong Verbs Some Exceptions The Conversational Past Tense “Haben” and “sein” as Auxiliary Verbs How to Form the Simple Past Tense How to Use the Simple Past Tense Commands Verbs with “du” and “ihr” How to Form the Future Tense Reflexive Verbs and Reflexive Pronouns Forming the Passive Voice How to Avoid the Passive Voice Expressing “Must,” “Can” and “Want to” Would and Should Impersonal Verbs Verbs that Take Their Objects in the Dative Case

Compound Verbs

Prefixes and Verbs - (Compound Verbs) Separable Verbs How Separable and Simple Verbs Differ Inseparable Verbs How to Tell Whether a Compound Verb is Separable or Inseparable

Forms You Should Remember for German Verbs Telling Time Word Order

German Word Order The Position of Verbs in the Sentence Avoiding Intricate Word Order Word Order of Adverbs and Objects

Appendix A Glossary of Grammatical Terms INDEX A CATALOG OF SELECTED DOVER BOOKS IN ALL FIELDS OF INTEREST