A grammar of the German language: designed for a thorough and practical study of the language as spoken and written to-day |
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accent adjective adverb andere appositive Bruder chap colloquial language common commonly compounds conjunctions consonant construction daß dative declension denote dialect drei earlier early N.H.G. einmal ending English Er ist especially Fontane's force Frau Freund gehen geht gender genitive German Goethe Goethe's Gott grammatical große habe hätte hence Herr heute idea indicate infinitive inflected iſt kommen König Leben literary language Low German machen Mann masc meaning Menschen modifying muß mutation names neut Note noun object original participle past tense perf period person plural preceding predicate prefix prep prepositions pronoun Raabe's reflexive verbs Rosenmontag Schiller's schon sein sentence set expressions ſich simple sing sometimes stand stem subjunctive subordinate clause substantive suffix syllable thing unaccented uninflected usage usually Vater verb viel vowel waren weiß wenig werde wieder wohl wollen word-order words zwei
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Page 545 - And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot...
Page 13 - The distinguishing feature of a consonant is the friction, or stopping of the breath in some part of the mouth or throat. If voice enters into the formation of a consonant, that is, if the vocal chords vibrate in producing it, it is said to be voiced, otherwise it is voiceless. The formation of the different consonants is described later. QUANTITY OF VOWELS. 4. i. General rules. a. Accented vowels are long when final, or before a vowel or one consonant: b5, @e«cn, SK5I, ma4en.
Page 479 - M., z. 5). COMPOUNDS. FORMATION OF COMPOUND WORDS. Definition and Nature of a Compound. 247. A compound is a word formed by the close union of two or more words whose meanings blend so thoroughly as to produce one single idea.
Page 42 - A syllable is long, on the other hand, when it contains a long vowel or diphthong or a short vowel followed by two consonants or a double consonant.
Page vii - It was the author's intention "to furnish to students of the German language and to teachers an outline of German Grammar, based not upon some ideal conception of how the language should be spoken, but upon the actual varying usage of the intelligent classes in the German Empire, Austria, and Switzerland.
Page 336 - In the simple tenses (près, and past) of principal propositions and such subordinate clauses as do not have the transposed word-order, the prefix is separated from the verb and placed at the end of the clause or sentence : (près.) ¡ф fange meine íHrteit au; (près, imper.) fana, bcine 'Arbeit an; (past) ¡ф ftiio.
Page 26 - Ъ, g are, according to the standard of the stage, pronounced as in English, when they stand at the beginning of a word, or elsewhere before a vowel or voiced consonant, but when final (end of word or syllable) or next to a voiceless consonant they become voiceless...
Page 588 - ... pronouns relate a subordinate clause (relative clause) to a main clause by referring back to a noun in the main clause. In English, the relative pronouns are who, which, and that. She is the woman who was here yesterday. The noun to which the relative pronoun refers is known as its antecedent. In German, the relative pronoun must agree with its antecedent in gender and number. The case is determined by its use in the relative clause. Sie ist die Frau, die gestern hier war. She is the woman who...