Tag: German Grammar

Part 1 – Introduction

Part 2 – Verb endings of regular verbs

I am following “Basic German” by “Heiner schneke and Karen seago” as a guidebook. Along with this book, I am also using some other grammar books for supporting material.

Just like in every other language you have to learn it by heart. There are tricks that can make life easier but in the end, you have to learn them.

Verb endings of du, Sie, and er/sie/es are very important. There are lots of things that are related to them in regular verbs and there are even more things in irregular verbs formation.

Handwritten Notes Photos

Part 3 – Irregular Verbs

After reading, I found out that there is no alternate path. You have to learn each Irregular variation. It is filled with exceptions. The pattern helps you in making a correct decision.

Handwritten Notes Photos

In the German language there are 26 alphabets which similar to English alphabets. In addition to that there are six umlauts( Ä,ä,Ö,ö,Ü,ü ).

There is one additional character which is ‘ß‘.
It is called sharp s. It is also called ess-tset.
Example: groß (Big).

Other phoentic elements are dipthongs and consonants. These are shown in the images below.

If you want to hear the proper pronunciation then watch the video below.

These are a few grammar rules which need to be known to learn german words in an easier way.

There are four things that should be known about the words

• Meaning
• Parts of speech
• Function
• Form