German Quickly: A Grammar for Reading German (Revised Edition)

✍ Scribed by April Wilson

• Publisher: Peter Lang AG
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 457
• Edition: Revised
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

German Quickly: A Grammar for Reading German is a thorough, straightforward textbook with a sense of fun. It teaches the fundamentals for reading German literary and scholarly texts of all levels of difficulty. It can be used as an introductory text for scholars with no background in German, or it can serve as a reference text for students wishing to review German. The grammar explanations are detailed and clear, addressing common problems students encounter while learning to read German. This book includes thought-provoking and entertaining reading selections consisting mainly of aphorisms and proverbs. There are also twelve appendices, including a summary of German grammar, descriptions of German dictionaries, a partial answer key, strategies for learning German, and a humanities vocabulary section of about 3,800 words.

✦ Table of Contents

ERRATA......Page 1
Foreword
......Page 5
Acknowledgments
......Page 9
Contents
......Page 11
Pronunciation Guide
......Page 19
1-A general introduction: Cognates, Genders, Compounds and Plurals
......Page 23
2-The present tense of verbs and the personal pronouns
......Page 30
3 (Part1)
-The case endings: NOminative, accusative, genitive, dative......Page 37
3 (PArt2)
-The case endings: dative c ase......Page 45
4-Adjectives and adverbs
......Page 53
5 (Part1)-Prepositions
......Page 61
5 (PArt2)-Prepositions
......Page 70
6 (PArt1)-BAsic verb placement
......Page 80
7-The pronouns
......Page 88
8-Weak nouns and adjectives used as nouns
......Page 97
9-The various uses of Es
......Page 103
10-The future tense
......Page 107
11-COmparison (and superlative) of adjectives and adverbs
......Page 111
12- Da- and Wo-Compounds
......Page 118
13-Verb prefixes
......Page 124
14-VErb tenses (part1)
......Page 130
15-Verb tenses (part2)
......Page 141
16-The plurals
......Page 149
17-How to use a german dictionary
......Page 153
18-Common suffixes
......Page 161
19-The modal auxiliaries
......Page 164
20-The zu construction
......Page 172
21-Co-ordinating conjunctions
......Page 179
22-Basic verb placement (part II)
......Page 183
23-Dependent clauses (PArt1)
......Page 189
24-Dependent clauses (part2) - Subordinating conjunctions
......Page 196
25-Dependant clauses (part3). RElative clauses
......Page 200
26-The reflexive
......Page 209
27-The overloaded adjective construction
......Page 218
28-The passive
......Page 228
29-Construction to be translated passively into English; the fake passive
......Page 237
30-Subjunctive I
......Page 242
31-Subjunctive II
......Page 247
32-Other subjunctive forms
......Page 254
33-If a sentence starts with a verb
......Page 260
34-Other pronouns
......Page 263
35-PLacement of commas
......Page 269
36-troublesome words
......Page 274
Appendix A: strategies for reading german; suggested schedule for covering GErman Quickly
......Page 285
Appendix B: Important words
......Page 291
Appendix C: English Grammar necessary for reading german
......Page 299
Appendix D: Summary of german grammar
......Page 309
Appendix E: Patterns for strong/hard verbs
......Page 321
Appendix F: Days of the week, the months, and numbers
......Page 331
Appendix G: Time phrasesd
......Page 333
Appendix H: Genitive and plural endings
......Page 335
Appendix I: Specific GErman dictionaries
......Page 337
Appendix J: Partial Answer Key
......Page 343
Appendix K: General and Humanities vocabulary
......Page 377
Appendix L: German proper names
......Page 447
Index
......Page 453