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05/03/2017

Compound sentences

The structure that comes with the use of compound words can be confusing. The source clarified a few things.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~deutsch/Grammatik/WordOrder/Compounds.html

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03/05/2017

Modal verbs (extended)

I wanted to get more familiar with the modal verbs. The source I am using seems very helpful.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~deutsch/Grammatik/Verbs/modals.html

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25/04/2017

Time

I quickly read about how to tell time in Geman. It didn't seem enough, though, therefore I went on YouTube for some extra practice.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~deutsch/Grammatik/Zeit/Time.html

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06/04/2017

Prepositions

Prepositions are still a problem for me as it is sometimes difficult to understand which case comes next. However, I tried my best to get familiar enough with them.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~deutsch/Grammatik/Prepositions/Prepositions.html

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05/04/2017

Dativ

Read more about the Dativ case and completed some exercises

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~deutsch/Grammatik/Nouns/dative.html

Then read about adjective endings in regard to the case that was used.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~deutsch/Grammatik/Endings.html

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28/03/2017

Accusative

I read about the Accusative case and exercised on the newly gained knowledge.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~deutsch/Grammatik/Nouns/accusative.html

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25/03/2017

Comparative

I read about how comparative and superlative forms are build in German.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~deutsch/Grammatik/Comparatives/Comparatives.html

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13/03/2017

Modal verbs

I introduced myself to modal verbs and how to use them. I also did some exercises to get familiar with the sentence structure when using them.

https://www.thoughtco.com/modal-verbs-conjugation-muessen-sollen-wollen-4069879
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrfgbBp6ScI

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Date 12/03/2017

Understanding verbs in German

1.1 Strong and weak verbs

I read more about the difference between strong and weak verbs and got some basic knowledge of past tenses.

https://www.lsa.umich.edu/german/hmr/Grammatik/Verb_Summaries/Strong_Weak_Mixed.html

1.2 Seperable verbs

I read more about this kind of verbs and found very helpful that existence of a table containing the meaning of different seperable prefixes.

https://www.thoughtco.com/germans-separable-prefix-verbs-4069187

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Date: 07/03/2017

Understanding articles in German

The concept of articles in German is similar to the one in my own language with the difference that we put the article in the end of the word. The similarity is that there is no correct way to determine the gender of the word unless you know it. However, there are suffixes that can help you work out the gender in certain situations. I am glad to find out that this also exist in German. For example, words ending in -ling, -ist, -or, and -e are mostly masculine. Equivalent suffixes exist for feminine and neuter. The resource mentioned below also explains how to work out the gender of compaund words - more specifically, the gender of the whole word is determined by the last word.

http://leicht-deutsch-lernen.com/german-articles-part-1

In addition, watched a video about articles in which I found out that the same word can have different articles for two totally different meanings and in some cases the only way to know that a word is in plural is the article (das Fenster, die Fenster) as no change in the word itself is needed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxDVXiEaudQ

The video shares a link to a long post about articles that looks very useful.

https://www.thoughtco.com/masculine-feminine-or-nueter-in-german-4068442

I was further interested in learning more about the plural form of nouns. There is no general rule about that either.

http://www.pimsleurapproach.com/resources/german/grammar-guides/singular-plural/