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accusative adjective adjunct adverb apposition auxiliary Bruder Buch compound conj conjunctions construction dative declined dependent clause derivatives direct object elliptical construction ending English especially Examples EXERCISE expressed feminine forms freuen geben gefreut gekommen geliebt gender genitive geredet German Germanic languages gewandert governed grammar große gute guten guter habe hätte imperative impersonal impersonal verbs indefinite indicative infinitive inflection inseparable prefixes intransitive irregular Jahre kommen können language latter lieben liebt limiting word manch Mann masculine meaning neuter noun object Old conjugation original passive past participle personal pronoun personal verb phrases plural preceding predicate preposition preterit pron pronominal qualifying rarely recht reden reflexive reflexive verbs second declension sehen sein sentence signifying simple sing singular sometimes stand subjunctive substantive suffix superlative tenses thou tion tive transitive verbs usually verbal viel vowel wander waren Wein weiß werde wollen würde zwei
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Page iii - German,' -^-and I must be allowed to add French — 'ability to speak is an object inferior in importance to ability to understand those languages accurately and readily ; and the attainment of the former is properly to be made posterior to that of the latter. One who has mastered the principles of grammar, and acquired by reading a fair vocabulary and a feeling for the right use of it, will learn to speak and write rapidly and...
Page ii - In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by D. APPLETON & COMPANY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. PREFACE, THE
Page i - Whitney and Edgren. — A COMPENDIOUS GERMAN AND ENGLISH DICTIONARY, with Notation of Correspondences and Brief Etymologies. By Professor WD WHITNEY, assisted by AH EDGREN.
Page iii - Yet, there are two serious objections to it. " Firstly, it is" — to quote Mr. Whitney once more — " for the most part impracticable in schools and colleges. Their circumstances and methods of instruction render translation and construction the means by which the most useful knowledge and the best discipline can be gained. To the very great majority of those who learn German...
Page 29 - NOUNS. 91. To the second declension belong only masculine and feminine nouns. They form all the cases of the plural by adding n or en to the theme, and masculines take the same ending in the oblique cases of the singular. 92. 1. Nearly all the feminine nouns in the language are of this declension : namely,.^ ( a. All feminines of more than one syllable, whether primitive words, as @eite,
Page 126 - The reflexive pronouns of the first and second persons are the same with the ordinary object-pronouns : namely, me and te (or toi) in the singular, nous and vous in the plural.
Page 97 - Ijeífen, íjbren, fefjen, íetiren, and lernen — the last two not uniformly), when construed with another verb in the infinitive, form their perfect and pluperfect tenses by adding the infinitive instead of the participle to the auxiliary (Whitney). — biefer StimlH' : genitive to be construed with benfen. 1930. Off* net bie ©nffe : make a way. @affe primarily means ' narrow street
Page 86 - Sonne gefefyret : accus. absolute, denoting an accompanying or characterizing circumstance, as if governed by " with " or " having