German grammar

German grammar

The grammar of the German language is quite similar to that of the other Germanic languages. Although some features of German grammar, such as the formation of some of the verb forms, resemble those of English, German grammar differs from that of English in that it has, among other things, cases and gender in nouns and a strict verb-second word order in main clauses.

German has retained many of the grammatical distinctions that other Germanic languages have lost in whole or in part. There are three genders and four cases, and verbs are conjugated for person and number. Accordingly, German has more inflections than English, and uses more suffixes. For example, in comparison to the -s added to third-person singular present-tense verbs in English, most German verbs employ four different suffixes for the conjugation of present-tense verbs, namely -e for the first-person singular, -st for the informal second-person singular, -t for the third-person singular and for the informal second-person plural, and -en for the first- and third-person plural, as well as for the formal second-person singular/plural.

Owing to the gender and case distinctions, the articles have more possible forms. In addition, some prepositions combine with some of the articles.

Numerals are similar to other Germanic languages. Unlike modern English, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroese, units are placed before tens as in Afrikaans, Early Modern English, Danish, Dutch, Yiddish and Frisian.

Nouns

Main article: German nouns

Gender

Main article: Grammatical gender in German

Students of German are often advised to learn German nouns with their accompanying definite article, as the definite article of a German noun corresponds to the gender of the noun. However, the meaning or form, especially the ending, of a noun can be used to recognize 80% of noun genders.[1] For instance, nouns ending in the suffixes -heit, -keit, -ung, -schaft or -tät are always feminine.[2]

Case

See also: German declension

Articles

Main article: German articles

verbs

Adjectives

Main article: German adjectives

Declension of adjectives

Main article: German declension § Adjectives

Pronouns

Main article: German pronouns

Adverbial phrases

Main article: German adverbial phrases

Verbs

Main article: German verbs

Separable verbs

Main article: Separable verb

Conjugation

Main article: German conjugation
Main article: German modal particle

Sentences structure

Main article: German sentence structure

German sentence structure is similar to other Germanic languages in its use of V2 word order.

See also

References

  1. ^ Durrell & Hammer 2002, pp. 1–10.
  2. ^ Marian, Jakub. "How to recognize gender in German using suffixes". www.jakubmarian.com. Retrieved 2020-12-29.

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