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 27 of 151 12/8/2017 Many adjectives, particularly those expressing abstract ideas, can be formed into neuter nouns according to the pattern which follows below. These adjectival nouns get modified by adverbs rather than by adjectives, in agreement with the normal relationship of adverbs to adjectives, including adverbial usages of words such as viel (much) and nichts (nothing). nichts Gutes viel Interessantes wenig Schönes etwas Neues nothing that (is / was) good (much / a lot) that (is / was) interesting little that (is / was) (beautiful / pretty / nice) something that (is / was) new The original adjectives, “gut,” “interessant,” “schön,” and “neu”, are capitalized and appear (for our current purposes) with an –es ending. By Unit 4 you’ll learn to recognize the other endings these adjectival nouns will get when they’re used in genitive and dative cases. Just remember that adjectival nouns are spelled – and take their own modifiers – as if they were modifying some (absent) neuter noun, but otherwise they function as that neuter noun. Unit: 3: Articles, simple past 1. Objectives In this unit, in the context of simple sentences that involve all four German cases, you will learn how to: Identify and translate der-words and ein-words. Decide whether a conjugated verb is in present tense or simple-past tense, and use its endings to predict what the corresponding subject must be. Locate the infinitive form of a verb in a dictionary given only its simple-past, conjugated form. Translate compound nouns, including when they appear in hyphenated lists of related nouns. Translate German number formats. Unit: 3: Articles, simple past 2. Der– words
Offline Textbook | A Foundation Course in Reading German https://courses.dcs.wisc.edu/wp/readinggerman/print-entire-textbook/ Page 28 of 151 12/8/2017 These are the words that function like the definite article in that they share the same endings with articles. The stems of these words are: diesjenjedmanchsolchwelchall- this that every / each (many a) (plural = some, many) such, so, those, etc. Consult your dictionary. which / what all Using dies– as our example der-word, our chart looks as follows (compare with the chart of definite articles in Unit 2): MASCULINE FEMININE NEUTER PLURAL NOMINATIVE dieser diese dieses diese ACCUSATIVE diesen diese dieses diese DATIVE diesem dieser diesem diesen (Noun + n) GENITIVE dieses dieser dieses dieser (Noun + s/es) (Noun + s/es) Points to remember: 1. Der– words share the same endings as the definite article. 2. All– will only appear in plural usages. 3. Dies– and jen– when used alone can mean “the latter” and “the former” respectively. Example: Die Eltern meiner Frau heißen Johann und Margarete. Diese ist 62 Jahre alt, jener 65 Jahre alt. The parents of my wife are named Johann and Margarete. The latter is 62 years old, the former 65 years old.
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