German

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Did You Know?
The German language does not have a true present continuous tense, only present tense.
Well, out here in the far west near the Dutch border we have present continuous.

Contents

Lessons: Level I • Level II • Level III Level IV Level V
Grammar • Appendices • About (including print versions) • Q&A • Planning |}

()	Level V Review Lessons	(discussion)
Section V: * Starting Point: Undeveloped • Berlin, Germany (II): Undeveloped • Vienna, Austria (III): Undeveloped * Bern, Switzerland (IV): Undeveloped • Salzburg, Austria (V): Undeveloped • Zürich, Switzerland (VI): Undeveloped • Hannover, Germany (VII): Undeveloped • Bonn, Germany (VIII): Undeveloped • Innsbruck, Austria (IX): Undeveloped • Bavaria, Germany (X): Undeveloped • Kiel, Germany (XI): Undeveloped • Schaan, Liechtenstein (XII): Undeveloped • Schaffhausen, Switzerland (XIII): Undeveloped • Deutschland, Österreich, und Schweiz (XIV): Undeveloped

() (discussion) Grammar Introduction and overview • Personal pronouns, formal and informal you, introduction to gender • Intransitive verbs, verb conjugation, present tense • Adverbs, V2 word order, Negation of verbs, Sentence adverbs • Stem-changing verbs, Weak vs. Strong verbs • Polar questions, V1 word order, Pre- and postambles • Noun gender • Noun plurals • Noun phrases, Articles • Transitive verbs, Accusative case, word order • Pronomial possessives, Possessive determiners, Possessive pronouns, Negation with kein • Irregular verbs, Past-like present verbs • Uninflected adjectives, Predicate phrases, Copulative verbs • Interrogatives, der words • Future tense, The sentence bracket • Ditransitive verbs, Dative case • Coordinating conjunctions, Ellipses, Adverbial conjunctions, Multipart conjunctions • Prepositions with accusative and dative, Prepositional verbs • Prefixed verbs, Separable verbs, Separable and inseparable prefixes • Imperatives, The imperative mood, The impersonal imperative • Impersonal verbs, Impersonal pronouns, the Point-of-view dative • Dative prepositions • Possessives and the genitive case • Modal auxiliary verbs • The simple past tense Adjectives and Adverbs • Alphabet • Cases • Nouns • Prepositions and Postpositions • Pronouns • Sentences • Verbs

Resources

This book has a PDF version.

• BLL German (Bite-sized Language Lessons)
• German Language
• German Language Wikibooks
• German studies in Wikiversity
• Freistil wikibook

I	This is a Category I Language.

For other German textbooks refer to Deutsch.