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Old 02-01-2008, 10:31 PM
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Re: German

To learn german, you will need a lot more than random words.

Declining a noun:
Nominative (used for subjects and predicate nominatives)
der (masculine words)
die (feminine and plural words)
das (neuter words)
Genetive (most commonly used for possesion)
des (masculine and neuter)
der (feminine and plural)

Dative (indirect objects)
dem (masculine and neuters)
der (feminine)
den (plural)

Accusative (direct objects)
den (masculine)
die (feminine/plural)
das (neuter)

Question words
Wie: how
Was: what
Warum: why
Wo: where
Wer: who

Prounouns

I-ich
you (singlular) du or Sie (Sie is for talking to someone of higher position than yourself)
he-er
she-sie
it-est
we-wir
you (plural)-ihr
they-sie

Verb conjugation
example verb: laufen (to run)
to find the root of a verb, you take off the en at the end.

----------------Singular---------------------Plural
1st person----- ich laufe---------------------wir laufen
2nd person---- du laufst/Sie laufen----------ihr lauft
3rd person---- er/sie/est lauft---------------sie laufen

That's just the very basic parts of speech. I may post more later though.

This gives you basic sentences in present tense.

By the way, how much do you know about english grammar? The less you know about your own language the harder it is to learn a new one.

Such as do you know what an infinitive is? How about verbals? Subject? Predicate? Direct Object? Indirect Object? Prepositions? Prepositional phrases? Past Present and Future Tense? Past perfect present perfect future perfect? Gerund? Participle? Active Voice? Passive Voice?

What I'm saying is you need to have amazing ability in your native tongue before trying to learn a new language.
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