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 5 of 151 12/8/2017 (Vorder = front / fore, Rad = wheel, Antrieb = drive). And how about this? Flugzeugabwehrkanone = Flak! (Flugzeug = airplane; Abwehr = defense; Kanone = cannon/gun, hence: air defense artillery) We will be dealing with word formation in a number of the chapters in this book in order to help you learn vocabulary and understand how German builds much of its vocabulary. Unit: Introduction 2. Tips for Using this Textbook A few tips to help you make the most of this open, online textbook: 1. Familiarize yourself with the Contents links on the right side of this page. Learn the difference between a unit and the multiple sections within each unit. Click the gray triangle next to each unit heading to open up the sections within that unit. Click a section title to go directly to that section. Click a unit heading to reach the printer-friendly compilation of that entire unit. To print that unit then, simply use your browser’s “Print” command to get a print-optimized edition of the entire unit. 2. For reading online, the best way to read is to read each section separately. You can use either the section-specific links in the Contents menu (see above), or use the “Next” and “Previous” links at the top and bottom of every section to move through the sections in sequence. 3. Make note of the big white “Search” box above, and note that that is always available. This feature may come in very handy as you work through this material. 4. Note the “Recent Changes” link above, also always available. That will show you an automatically-generated list of textbook sections that have been recently revised, so that you can occasionally check there to see if something you already studied has since been revised. 5. Make sure you noticed the “Two Things You Will Need to Succeed” described on the “About this Book” “cover” of this book.
Offline Textbook | A Foundation Course in Reading German https://courses.dcs.wisc.edu/wp/readinggerman/print-entire-textbook/ Page 6 of 151 12/8/2017 Unit: 1: Basics 1. Objectives In this unit, in the context of simple sentences that only involve the nominative and accusative cases, you will learn how to: Identify the case, number and gender of nouns, pronouns, definite articles, and indefinite articles. Identify the subject, verb, and object. Decide whether a sentence is a statement, a yes/no question, or a questionword question. Select the appropriate English verb tense to use to translate various German present-tense and simple-past verb tense usages. Unit: 1: Basics 2. Nouns Unlike English nouns, all German nouns are capitalized. This is very useful as you learn to read German. You can easily identify the nouns in these two sentences: Der Mann hat einen Bruder und eine Schwester, aber keine Eltern mehr. Die Frau hat keine Schwestern und keine Brüder, aber zwei Tanten. Of course, the first words of each sentence are also capitalized. Der and Die are articles, not nouns. Unit: 1: Basics 3. Noun Gender and the Nominative Case German nouns have gender, i.e., they are masculine, feminine or neuter, but memorizing the gender of every noun is not particularly important for reading German. What is of significance is that the definite articles (the words for “the”) differ according to gender and undergo changes according to the role the word plays in a sentence. (More on this later.)
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