A Grammar of the German Language; with Exercises1870 |
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Abend accusative adjectives adverbial expressions adverbs auxiliary verbs bleiben Blume brother Bruder Buch cardinal numerals clause compound copula das Band dative declension declined definite article dependent clause drei dürfen einige Examples feminine following substantives following verbs Foreign substantives Freund Garten gedurft gehen geht gemußt genitive singular German gewollt geworden habe hätte heute Ich werde imperative imperative mood imperfect imperfect tense Impersonal verbs infinitive intransitive verbs irregular verbs Knabe können letter lieb(e)te lieben loved Mann masculine mögen names neuter gender noun past participle Perf person or thing person singular personal pronoun placed plural preceded predicate preposition Pres present indicative principal sentence radical vowel relative pronoun schämen Schiller schönen Blumen schönen Gärten schönes Kind Second Conditional sehen sein separable prefix signification Sohn stand stantive Subjunctive Substantives ending superlative supine tense third person thou thun Vater viel weiß werde geliebt wollen word würde zufolge zwanzig zwei
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