A Brief German Grammar: With References to His Larger Grammar

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H. Holt, 1885 - German language - 129 pages
 

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Page 10 - French have four cases : the Nominative, answering to the English Nominative ; the Genitive, answering nearly to the English Possessive, or Objective with of; the Dative, corresponding to the English Objective with to or for ; the Accusative, nearly the same with the English Objective.
Page 10 - Masculine are : names of seasons, months, and days of the week, of the points of the compass, and of stones ; also many derivatives formed from roots by change of vowel, all those ending in ing and ling, and many which end in el, m, re. Thus: ber ©prud), 'the speech,' ber SJagel, 'the nail,' ber ginger, ' the finger,' ber Ciebling,
Page 98 - Dingen jeb,r gtwifrnlMft, brang barauf. Ш. The inverted order is the same with the normal, except that the personal subject comes next after the personal verb instead of next before. The inverted order is used in the following cases: 1. When any part of the predicate is put, instead of the subject, at the beginning of the sentence: thus, p. 3, i, 3m...
Page 4 - English, at the beginning of sentences, of lines of poetry, and of direct quotations...
Page 11 - the' Gen. be« ber be« ber 'of the' Dat. bem ber bem ben ' to or for the ' Ace. ben bie ba« bie 'the
Page 98 - orfalíen; p. 85, 28, ©ab er einen fallen 9îamen an, fo gait baê, etc. 4. In an optative or imperative sentence, or when a command or desire is expressed: thus, p. 27, 30, Steigen @ie га|"ф ein. 5. For impressiveness, with the personal verb first, and usually with bod) or ja somewhere after it: thus, p. 48, 2, Sft boa) ber erfte £in« brad . . . faji immer ber aïïcin »ajSgcbenbe, the first impression is certainly almost the only decisive one; p. 88, 2, Cab' ¡ф Ьоф Ы feinem íRegiment...
Page 90 - he was beaten because [it was claimed that] he had been naughty ' ; aug Seforgnifi, baft erllnrul)en erregen toerbe, ' out of apprehension that he would stir up disorders ' ; bu bdtteft t$ gefagt, ' [do you assert that] you have said so?
Page 43 - The AUXILIARY VERBS used in making the compound tenses and the passive voice of other verbs are three: fyaben, 'have'; fetn, 'be'; and Werben, 'become.

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