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This lesson is my 4th and final lesson about German conjunctions. I’ve already explained coordinating, subordinating and two-part conjunctions. Today I will teach you how to use the...
If you want to learn how to use subordinating conjunctions in German such as dass, weil, ob, wenn and more, you have come to the right place. Not only will I explain the word order and...
Conjunction junction, what’s your function?
Hookin’ up words and phrases and clauses.
This song is a classic and it explains perfectly what conjunctions do. They connect...
Herr Antrim: If the following scene feels familiar, this lesson is for you. I’ll explain when you need to use “zu” with an infinitive and when you don’t. And...
Alles? Alle? Allem? Allen? Is this one word being declined or many words that look similar? If you don’t know, read this post.
Let’s talk about two little words...
eins, zwei, drei. Ich habe ein Buch. Er hat auch eins. Sie wird eines Tages eins haben. Meine Schwester hat eine Eins in Mathe.
Seriously, German?
Sometimes I think this language is simply...
There are three different pronouns in German that are all written as s-i-e. When you hear the word “sie” in German, it could mean “she” or “they” or...
This post is the first of 2 lessons about the genitive case. In this lesson I will cover the basics. Why the genitive case exists, when to use it and how to form it. In the...
Today’s lesson is about genitive prepositions. Which prepositions require the genitive case all of the time? What's up with "wegen" sometimes using dative instead? All that and more...
Never in the history of German learning have there ever been two more misunderstood two-letter words than the words “in” and “im”. What are they? What do they mean?...
There are nine prepositions that can switch between the accusative and dative cases. They are called two-way prepositions or “Wechselpräpositionen”.
This post is a modified...
The dative case has a variety of uses. It can be used with indirect objects, dative verbs and certain prepositions. Today we are focusing on the prepositions that ALWAYS require the...
