Elements of the German Language ...Applegate & Company, 1857 |
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Common terms and phrases
adjectives adverbs affixes already article auxiliary verb belong book brother Bruder called case Charles child Cincinnati compound conjugated conjunctions country Dative declension declined definite departed dieſe employed English EXERCISE express father first form formed found frequently Freund friend general generally Genitive German German language give good great home horse house Imperf imperfect tense Indicative infinitive iſt kind know large last letter little little boy long loved make money mood morning mother muß names neuter never nouns numeral o'clock object past participle perfect person place Plural praise prefix preposition present tense principal pronoun read reflective same second ſehr ſein sentence ſich ſie ſind Sing sometimes soon speak subject Subjunctive subordinative syllable take tence termination thing think thou thought three thun time to-day transitive unserer used Vater very vowel weiß wish words work write year yesterday young your
Popular passages
Page 182 - I will still hunt the deer. Over yonder waters I will still glide unrestrained in my bark canoe. By those dashing waterfalls I will still lay up my winter's store of food. On these fertile meadows I will still plant my corn. Stranger, the land is mine ! 1 understand not these
Page 184 - in three or four different languages. He also learned that the boy had been stolen away, when a child, by a gipsy, and had rambled ever since, with a gang of these strollers, up and down several parts of Europe. It happened that the merchant, whose heart
Page 185 - to have inclined towards the boy by a secret kind of instinct, had himself lost a child some years before. The parents, after a long search for him, had concluded that he had been drowned in one of the canals, with which the country abounds, and the mother was so afflicted at the loss of her son, that she died of grief for him.
Page 179 - After searching about for some time, he found himself at the bottom of the valley, and near his own cottage. To renew the search that night was equally fruitless and dangerous. He was therefore compelled to go home ; although he had lost both his child and his dog, which had attended him faithfully many years.
Page 179 - break of day, the shepherd, accompanied by a number of his neighbors, set out in search of his child ; but after a day spent in fruitless labor, they were compelled, by the approach of night, to descend from the mountain. On returning to his cottage, he found that the dog
Page 179 - He then with great difficulty followed, and on entering the cave, what were his feelings when he beheld his child eating, with much satisfaction, the cake which the dog had just brought him, while the faithful animal stood by, watching him with the utmost tenderness.
Page 189 - He inquired earnestly whether any of her family was up the last night, when he and the other officer met. She told him they all retired at eight o'clock. He observed : " I know you were asleep, for I knocked at your door three times before you heard me.
Page 189 - On hearing this, she returned to her chamber and laid down. Soon after, the officer knocked at the door, but she arose only at the third summons, feigning herself asleep. Her mind was so much agitated by what she had heard, that she could neither eat nor sleep ; supposing it to be in her power to
Page 178 - His piercing eyes he bent. And when he came well nigh the ghost, That gave him such affright, He clapped his hands upon his side, And loudly laughed outright. For 'twas a friendly guide-post stood, His wandering steps to guide ; And thus he found that to the good No evil should betide.
Page 182 - If I should leave the land of my fathers, whither shall I fly ? Shall I go to the South, and dwell among the graves of the Pequots ? Shall I wander to the West ?—the fierce Mohawk, the man-eater, is my foe. Shall I fly to the East?—the great water is before me. No, stranger ; here I have lived, and here