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April 3, 2019
das hier ist die vorletzte E-Mail für dieses Semester.
Last week, while working on these Genitives you realized we have to consider several different aspects at the same time.
- Is the Genitive noun masculine or neuter - then I will need a Genitive "s" or "es"
- Is it masculine, but belongs to the "n"-Deklination? Then no Genitive "s"
or, to be exact: almost never a Genitive "s"
- Do we add a helping Adjective.
- The possessive article endings follow the indefinite article endings ...
- And more ....
If you had difficulty last week, it might be a good idea to scroll back a few weeks and reread through the Genitive from step I.
Homework:
I hope you wrote down some of last week's Genitives that you figured out in your group. Several of you also wrote whole sentences.
Please try to write at least four or five sentences with a Genitive.
You are very welcome to email me if you have questions, seriously!!!
Wir sehen uns das letzte Mal nächste Woche am Mittwoch den 10. April.
Eine gute Woche Ihnen allen,
March 27, 2019
Die n-Deklination and Genitivbildung
Sign of the Times
For your homework I'm adding the picture from the board.
[Click] Adjective Endings Overview - definite or indefinite or no article
[Click] Grammatik-N-DEKLINATION-1.pdf
[Click] Genitivbildung incl. Adjektiven (Exercises)
Study the first two above, and then do the exercises in the third item
[Click]
second source: explanations on the N-Deklination
Here are some case charts that might be useful
[Click] Gender/Case Chart
[Click] Gender/Case Chart (no Color) (better black and white printing)
[Click] derDieDas-ein Gender/Case Chart (compressed)
March 20, 2019
NO CLASS THIS WEEK
March 13, 2019
Genitive case
[Click] Nouns and their gender for Genitive practice game (corrected version)
For those of you who want to study them more thoroughly, here is the quizlet for it:
[Click] Quizlet (Nouns and their gender)
The Genitive case shows a relation to a subject or an object. The German question-word for it is "wessen".
Beispiel: Der Hund der Frau bellt laut. Wessen Hunde bellt laut. Der der Frau.
Die Katze des Mannes miaut ganz leise. Wessen Katze miaut ganz leise? Die des Mannes.
The Genitive endings:
definite article:
(das Haus) des Mannes*,
(die Tochter) der Frau,
(der Ball) des Kindes*,
(die Wohnung) der Freunde
indefinite article:
(das Haus) eines Mannes*
(die Tochter) einer Frau
(der Ball) eines Kindes*
(die Wohnung) !!! von Freunden
(the indefinite plural form (without an adjective) needs to be replaced through the Dative)
it will be the same with: meine/ deine/ jene/ diese/ solche/ welche
definitiv article + adjective ending:
(das Haus) des großen Mannes*
(die Tochter) der schönen Frau
(der Ball) des kleinen Kindes*
(die Wohnung) der guten Freunde
indefinite article+ adjective ending:
(das Haus) eines großen Mannes*
(die Tochter) einer schönen Frau
(der Ball) eines kleinen Kindes*
(die Wohnung) guter Freunde
(the indefinite Plural form with an adjective can be recognized through the "er" ending of the adjective)
*masculine and neuter nouns get additionally an "es" or "s" at the end;
"es": most one-syllabic-nouns (see above samples);
nouns that end with an "s, ß, z, tz, sch"
(Beispiel: des Geldes, des Turmes, des Hundes, des Esstisches,
des Füßballplatzes, des Einfamilienhauses, des Fußes ...)
"s": multi-syllabic-nouns, nouns that end with "en, em, el, er" or diminutives "chen, lein"
(Beispiel: des Führerscheins, des Vortrags, des Regens, des Tandems,
des Hebels (lever), des Vaters, des Fässchens, des Kindleins ...)
"es" as well as "s" is possible with one and two-syllable words; there is wiggle room, it just should sound nicely and rhythmically
Here now is the actual homework:
Please form the genitive of the following combinations
Beispiel: Foto, deine Familie >>> das Foto deiner Familie
Operation, mein Bruder >>> die Operation meines Bruders
Parkplatz, meine Firma;
Auto, die Leute;
Kinderwagen, unsere Freunde
Computer, die Kollegin
Geburtsort, ihre Oma
Parkplatz, die Stadt
Foto, das Kind
Name, dein Hund
Bäckerei, mein Onkel
Fische, dein Bruder
Titel, das Lieblingsbuch
If you feel super motivated you can write a whole sentence with each combination.
Beispiel: Die Operation meines Älteren Bruders ist gut verlaufen.
Das neue Foto deiner Familie ist wirklich wunderschön.
Add an additional adjective here and there . . .
I'd love to share some with you in two weeks.
March 6, 2019
Guten Tag liebe Lernende
As we are furthering our knowledge about how to organize Relativsätze, keep going with what we left at this morning.
With cutting the sentences into pieces I wanted to introduce a different way to getting the sentence structure right. Coloring can be a third way . . .
Auf Deutsch sagen wir: Viele Wege führen nach Rom.
It's important to me that you understand the general process.
Some of you jumped ahead and constructed alternative relative clauses by addressing a different noun. That's fine if you already got all sentences solved earlier.
If not, I recommend going back and take a very strict approach:
Leave the first sentence as is.
Identify the noun in the second sentence that is to be replaced by a relative pronoun (I learnt today that I should not use "shall" - my good old German English-education).
Identify it's grammar function in that sentence.
Thus you can find the proper relative pronoun.
Everything else you can follow in last week's email.
If you have a question, want to check whether a sentence is correct: email me! Seriously!
Last not least I'm attaching a list of nouns we'll be using next week. I just wanted you to look through them in order to get an idea about their gender and, possibly, to look a few up. No need to thoroughly study them.
[Click] Nouns and their gender
February 27, 2019
We sang a birthday song (Viel Glück und viel Segen) for Fred on Wednesday.
Here it is:
[Click] Birthday song
My brain is still in explanatory mode, so I thought to immediately revise my print out in order to better help you understand the whole moving around of words and whole sentence parts.
Here it comes:
[Click] Relative Clause Examples (revised)
- So your homework will stay the same as last week.
- Double check whether you closely followed all the necessary steps.
- Identify the main clause!
- Identify the dependent clause!
- Identify the noun in the dependent clause and its grammatical function in that sentence, which will be replaced by the appropriate relative pronoun.
- Check whether there is a verb WITH preposition in the to be dependent clause - in that case the preposition comes first, followed by the relative pronoun.
- I am attaching the hand out from the fall class again, which provides the overview over these pronouns and might be a good reminder again.
[Click] Pronouns for Relative Clause
- Try to play around as much as possible and we'll go from there next week, ok?
- And, as always, please email me if you have questions.
- We won't touch the relative clauses of the second print out (out of the Huber grammar book) not yet. I will rather in between introduce the "Genitive in its beauty" and do a little more reading and then come back to it again.
- Also, as promised, the link to the Hueber grammar books, that I really like: Sag's besser Teil 1 und Teil 2
[Click] Link to Hueber books
- As you can see, you can also order it as a download instead of a book, if you don't like another one on your shelf.
- The online source to order books without shipping fee (it really works!) is: book depository.com
- Last not least, immediately following this email I will forward you the latest newsletter from Deutsch Perfekt, to give you an idea what it looks like.
- You might get the impression that I'm thinking you have nothing else to do but study German: no, no ... but it's supposed to get really cold and nasty again ... and then ... you get the picture?
February 20, 2019
[Click] Relative Clause Examples (updated)
My practice sentences will train you for relative clauses with verbs with prepositions e.g.: warten auf, denken an, helfen bei and also reflexive verbs + prepositions. I still kept the noun, to which the relative clause refer, pretty clear (not replacing it by a pronoun in the second sentence).
The most important thing is:
if the dependent clause contains a verb with preposition, the dependent clause starts with that very preposition followed by the relative pronoun.
Beispiel:
Mein Freund wird mich am Wochenende besuchen. Ich freue mich sehr auf meinen Freund.
Mein Freund, auf den ich mich sehr freue, wird mich am Wochenende besuchen.
My practice sentences will train you for relative clauses with verbs with prepositions e.g.: warten auf, denken an, helfen bei and also reflexive verbs + prepositions. I still kept the noun, to which the relative clause refer, pretty clear (not replacing it by a pronoun in the second sentence).
The most important thing is:
if the dependent clause contains a verb with preposition, the dependent clause starts with that very preposition followed by the relative pronoun.
Beispiel:
Mein Freund wird mich am Wochenende besuchen. Ich freue mich sehr auf meinen Freund.
Mein Freund, auf den ich mich sehr freue, wird mich am Wochenende besuchen.
Also, as I mentioned before, try to possibly rearrange your soon to be dependent clause before you add it.
The second print out I handed out at the very end of class contains quite a few more challenges, starting by replacing the nouns with pronouns e.g. or integrating prepositions into compound words … uugh.
I suggest to for now “just” stick with my practice sheet and try to arrange various sentences.
We'll have to add quite some more grammar, with which I will start next week
February 13, 2019
Hausaufgabe:
Bitte schreiben Sie eine kleine Beschreibung über sich selbst.
Beginnen Sie mit einfachen Sätzen.
Formen Sie dann daraus Relativsätze.
Beispiel:
- Ich heiße Henrike Belz.
- Ich bin die Deutschlehrerin.
- Ich werde im März 56 Jahre alt.
- Ich habe drei Kinder.
- Alle sind schon erwachsen.
- Wir, die Intermediate Deutschschüler vom LLI lernen seit Herbst
2016 mit ihr (der Deutschlehrerin) zusammen Deutsch.
- Deutsch interessiert uns sehr.
- Frau Belz ist mit einem deutschen Mann verheiratet.
- Sie ist mit ihm 2004 in die USA gezogen.
- Er unterrichtet Physik an UT.
Ich heiße Henrike Belz, bin die Deutschlehrerin, die im März 56 Jahre alt wird und die drei Kinder, die alle schon erwachsen sind, hat.
Wir, die Intermediate Deutschschüler vom LLI lernen seit Herbst 2016 mit ihr zusammen Deutsch, das uns sehr interessiert.
Frau Belz ist mit einem deutschen Mann, mit dem sie 2004 in die USA gezogen ist und der an UT Physik unterrichtet, verheiratet.
NOTE: You may also choose to examine the following document and identify all uses of relative clauses.
[Click] Relative clause examples - February 2019
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