German grammar

Indirect Speech in German Grammar

Indirect speech in German(indirekte Rede), also known as reported speech, is when we report what someone has said without repeating their exact…

Indirect Questions in German Grammar

Indirect questions are questions that are included within the structure of another sentence. Because indirect questions are dependent clauses (Nebensätze in German),…

Conjunctions – Word Order in German

Word order in German. Coordinating conjunctions connect two main clauses. Subordinating conjunctions and conjunctive adverbs connect main/independent clauses with dependent/subordinate clauses. Using subordinating conjunctions…

Infinitive Clauses – Word Order in German Grammar

Infinitive clauses in German(Infinitivsätze) are dependent clauses that are constructed with the infinitive form of a verb and the preposition zu. Infinitive clauses with um zu express the purpose of an…

Participle Clauses – Word Order in German Grammar

Participle clauses in German(Partizipialsätze) are dependent clauses that use a present or past participle. They always refer to the subject of the corresponding main clause. Participle…

Conditional Clauses in German Grammar

Conditional clauses in German are dependent clauses that are introduced by the subordinating conjunction wenn. They express that an action will only take…

Questions in German Grammar

Questions, also known as interrogative sentences, are used to get information about something. There are two different kinds of questions: closed questions,…

pronouns in German Grammar

Relative pronouns (Relativpronomen) are small words that introduce relative clauses. They allow us to give more information about something in the first part…

Adverbs in German Grammar

Adverbs in German (Adverbien) are describing words that we use with verbs, adjectives and other adverbs. Examples: Sie fährt schnell. Das Wetter ist sehr schön. Sie…

Adjectives in German Grammar

Adjectives (Adjektive) are describing words. They give us more information about a person, place or thing. There are three types of adjectives…

Genitive Case – Declension of German nouns

The genitive case indicates possession. English grammar uses -’s or the preposition of to show possession. Similarly, an -s or -es is added to nouns to mark the genitive case in German grammar. We…

Plural Nouns in German Grammar

A plural noun expresses that there is more than one person, object, idea etc. To form plural nouns in German, we can add –n/-en, -e,…

Imperfekt – Past Tense in German Grammar

The past tense, also called simple past or imperfect (Imperfekt or Präteritum in German), is used to express facts and actions that started and ended…