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🇩🇪 German — Grammar Explained

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The German alphabetLesson 1 Greetings, introductions, and the capital-letter ruleLesson 2 Subject pronouns and seinLesson 3 Gender and the nominative articlesLesson 4 Plurals & habenLesson 5 The accusative caseLesson 6 Conjugating regular verbs in the presentLesson 7 nicht vs keinLesson 8 Question formationLesson 9 Possessive determinersLesson 10 Numbers and the clockLesson 11 Days, months, datesLesson 12 Modal verbs and the verb-bracketLesson 13 Main clauses (V2) and subordinate clauses (verb-final)Lesson 14 The dative caseLesson 15 The Perfekt — German's everyday past tenseLesson 16 When the helper is sein, not habenLesson 17 Wechselpräpositionen — direction vs locationLesson 18 Adjective endings — gentlyLesson 19 Commands and comparisonsLesson 20 Präteritum — German's other past tenseLesson 21 Building bigger sentencesLesson 22 Reflexive verbs and reflexive pronounsLesson 23 The polite/hypothetical mood — Konjunktiv IILesson 24 Relative clausesLesson 25 The Vorgangspassiv (process passive)Lesson 26 The genitive caseLesson 27 Strong, weak, and mixed adjective endingsLesson 28 Plusquamperfekt and nachdemLesson 29 Indirect speech with Konjunktiv ILesson 30 Konjunktiv II in full — present, past, and modalLesson 31 wenn vs als vs wann — choosing between the three 'when'sLesson 32 Relative clauses in GermanLesson 33 Participles as adjectivesLesson 34 Argumentative connectors and word orderLesson 35 Verbs with fixed prepositionsLesson 36 Modal verbs at B2 — full verbs, double infinitives, and the subjective useLesson 37 Lassen — six everyday meanings, one verbLesson 38 Nominalisierung — and the bureaucratic register that loves itLesson 39 Trennbar oder untrennbar — the prefix that splits, and the one that doesn'tLesson 40 Modalpartikeln — small words, big attitudeLesson 41 Komposita — Lego words, read right-to-leftLesson 42 Wortbildung — build new words with predictable affixesLesson 43 TeKaMoLo — the unwritten law of the middle fieldLesson 44 Redewendungen — fixed expressions that don't translateLesson 45 Schreibstil — written German is its own dialectLesson 46 Falsche Freunde — words that look the same and aren'tLesson 47 Hochdeutsch und die Dialekte — recognizing what you hearLesson 48 Jugendsprache, Umgangssprache, Schreibsprache — three registersLesson 49 Synthese — putting it all togetherLesson 50

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