A Foundation Course in Reading German, 2017a

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Offline Textbook | A Foundation Course in Reading German https://courses.dcs.wisc.edu/wp/readinggerman/print-entire-textbook/ Page 137 of 151 12/8/2017 Unit: Reference 7. Dates MONTHS Januar January Jänner January Februar February März March April April Mai May Juni June Juli July August August September September Oktober October November November Dezember December DAYS OF THE WEEK Sonntag Sunday Montag Monday Dienstag Tuesday Mittwoch Wednesday Donnerstag Thursday Freitag Friday Samstag Saturday Sonnabend Saturday der 1. August August first, the first of August am 1. August on the first of August am Montag on Monday Montags on Mondays am Montag, d. 1. August on Monday, the first of August vom 12. bis (zum) 14. August from the 12th to the 14th of August Den wievielten haben wir heute? / Welches Datum haben wir heute? What is today’s date? Heute haben wir den 1. August / Heute ist der 1. August Today is the first of August. neunzehnhundertzweiundneunzig 1992 die Zwanziger the 20s (a particular decade within a century) im 20. Jahrhundert in the twentieth century v.Chr. B.C. n.Chr. A.D.
Offline Textbook | A Foundation Course in Reading German https://courses.dcs.wisc.edu/wp/readinggerman/print-entire-textbook/ Page 138 of 151 12/8/2017 In German, unlike English, dates don’t always need to be introduced by a preposition: Ich komme Montag. I’m coming on Monday. Sie ist 1985 geboren. She was born in 1985. Unit: Reference 8. Syntax Terminology Regarding elementary syntax terms please see “Two Things You Will Need to Succeed.” The following higher-level syntax concepts will help you recognize largerscale units of meaning when reading a German sentence. Noun Phrase The group of words that modify a noun. The value to you of recognizing noun phrases is the certainty you gain that words outside of the noun phrase cannot be modifiers of this noun, and vice versa, everything inside applies to this noun, not to some other part of the sentence. The leftmost word in a noun phrase is often an article (definite or indefinite). This concept is introduced in this textbook in the Unit 4 section on adjective endings. The underlined words are the noun phrases in the following examples: Der starke Junge ißt einen Apfel. Viele Bäume gehören zu diesem wohl überstrapazierten Förster. In all cases the rightmost word will be the noun itself, although genitive noun chains are in fact rightward extensions of the noun phrase, simply adding another subnoun phrase. Example: Gesunde Kinder des vorigen Jahrhunderts aßen mindestens wochentlich zwei Äpfel. You can alternatively read genitive noun chains as independent noun phrases, to help you keep straight the relationships between the parts of the larger genitive noun chain:
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