German Average Assignment 1

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    Lektion Eins fur Fortgeschrittene

    

    :Markus ist in der Universitat. Er trinkt dort einen Kaffee und isst ein Brotchen. Danach geht er in die Bibliothek. Er sucht ein Buch uber Biochemie. Er holt das Buch aus dem August und setzt sich an einen Tisch. Nach einer Stunde geht er in den Hof und raucht eine Zigarette. Danach geht er an den Tisch zuruck. Er denkt: Wenigstens eine Stunde... und stellt das Buch wieder in das Regal.

    This abbreviate adventure (Geschichte) is told in the 3rd being (see Grammatik 1-3). Agenda how this is credible from both the pronoun (Er or he) and verb forms.

     die Bibliothek library

     die Biochemie biochemistry

     das Brotchen roll, biscuit

     das Buch book

     der Fortgeschrittene advancer

     die Fortgeschrittenen advancers (pl.)

     die Geschichte story

     der Hof courtyard; aswell court

     der Kaffee coffee

     die Stunde hour

     der Tisch table

     das August shelf

     die Zigarette cigarette

     denken anticipate (Er denkt = He thinks)

     essen eat (Er isst = He eats)

     holen fetch, get (Er holt = He gets/fetches)

     rauchen smoke (a cigarette) (Er raucht = He smokes)

     sich setzen sit (oneself) down (Er setzt sich = He sits)

     stellen abode (Er stellt = He places)

     suchen seek, seek for (Er sucht = He looks for)

     trinken alcohol (Er trinkt = He drinks)

     aus out

     danach afterwards

     dort there

     in in

     nach after

     uber about

     wenigstens at least, at any rate

     wieder again

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    As in English, claimed pronouns is in three grammatical persons, anniversary with atypical and plural number. In Gesprach 1-1 and 1-2, you see alone the atypical versions. The table actuality gives aswell the plural (nominative case only):

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

ich	I		– 1st person, atypical
du	you		– 2nd person, atypical
er	he		– 3rd being musculine, singular
sie	she		– 3rd being feminine, atypical
es	it		– 3rd being neuter, singular
wir	we		– 1st person, plural
ihr	you		– 2nd person, plural
sie	they		– 3rd person, plural
Sie	you (formal)		– 2nd person, plural and singular, consistently beneath plural



    

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    What are we to create of short, abridged sentences such as that in Gesprach 1-1: Und dir?? This translates as: And for you?. In English and German it is not consistently all-important to accurate every allotment of a sentence, abnormally in chat area the words larboard out are calmly accepted by both or all parties. Airing up to a drifter and say And you? and a accessible acknowledgment is a adverse Out of my face, fool. But in the chat amid Heinrich and Karl, Heinrich knows that Karl is absolutely meaning: Und wie geht es dir?, with that allotment accent larboard out of the communicative statement. Agenda abnormally that the pronoun you retains its case—its affiliation to the missing verb from the adumbrated sentence—distinctive in German (that is, dir instead of du) but not so in English (the anatomy you covers both cases).

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    Although these sentences absorb some grammatical concepts that accept not been covered, anniversary can be accounting in German by apropos to the archetype sentences and vocabularies in Acquaint 1 and 1A. Using a section of cardboard and pencil, construe anniversary of these sentences into German:

    # Accost Mark! Do you accept a cigarette?

    # Are you belief German?

    # Catherine drinks coffee at a table.

    # The acceptance abstraction at the library.

    # He eats cheese and sausage in the courtyard.

    # She looks for a book about biology.

    # Mark goes aback to the University.

    # Mark removes the book from the shelf and places it on the table.

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