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The Secret of the German Language
Lesson 9:
This is the last lesson in the series!
Yee-haw!
If you understand all of this, then your teacher can sit down while YOU teach the class!
Plus your German friends will be very impressed at your perfect German.
Slide2
The Secret of the German Language
Today we get the final prepositions.
We also start some contractions.
After we start contractions, we go into labor.
Pretty soon we give birth to a beautiful bouncing baby sentence.
So get out your
preliminary
notes again.
Write down the following genitive prepositions.
Slide3
The Secret of the German Language
anstatt (instead of)trotz (in spite of)während (during)wegen (because of)Genitive will be taken.Anstatt is often shortened to statt.
Slide4
RESENESEMRMN+nS+sRS+sR
-e
-en
masculine
feminine
neuter
plural
adjective
Endings
Nominative
(Subject)
Accusative
(Direct Object)
Dative
(Indirect Object)
Genitive
(Possessive)
I’m sure you can figure out that when you see these four prepositions, the phrase uses the genitive case.
Slide5
RESENESEMRMN+nS+sRS+sR
-e
-en
masculine
feminine
neuter
plural
adjective
Endings
Nominative
(Subject)
Accusative
(Direct Object)
Dative
(Indirect Object)
Genitive
(Possessive)
So if you want to write a sentence like:
The boy is singing instead of his mother.
You would write:
Der Junge singt statt seine
r
Mutter.
Slide6
RESENESEMRMN+nS+sRS+sR
-e
-en
masculine
feminine
neuter
plural
adjective
Endings
Nominative
(Subject)
Accusative
(Direct Object)
Dative
(Indirect Object)
Genitive
(Possessive)
How about this sentence?
I’m learning something despite my teachers!
Ich lerne ja etwas trozt meine
r
Lehrer!
Slide7
RESENESEMRMN+nS+sRS+sR
-e
-en
masculine
feminine
neuter
plural
adjective
Endings
Nominative
(Subject)
Accusative
(Direct Object)
Dative
(Indirect Object)
Genitive
(Possessive)
Do you remember this one?
Sabine and Brigitte talk during
the break
Sabine und Brigitte
reden
während
de
r
Pause.
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RESENESEMRMN+nS+sRS+sR
-e
-en
masculine
feminine
neuter
plural
adjective
Endings
Nominative
(Subject)
Accusative
(Direct Object)
Dative
(Indirect Object)
Genitive
(Possessive)
Okay, how about this one:
Because of that cake, I’m now fat.
Wegen de
s
Kuchen
s
bin ich jetzt dick.
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The Secret of the German Language
Finally a number of these prepositions are commonly contracted with certain articles.
I’d like you to write these final notes in
your preliminary notes.
Title these common contractions.
As you see each one, guess what two German words were contracted.
Slide10
The Secret of the German Language
zum
zur
im
ins
fürs
vom
beim
aufs
ans
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RESENESEMRMN+nS+sRS+sR
-e
-en
masculine
feminine
neuter
plural
adjective
Endings
Nominative
(Subject)
Accusative
(Direct Object)
Dative
(Indirect Object)
Genitive
(Possessive)
So if you want to say:
I go to the school
You can say
Ich gehe zu de
r
Schule.
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RESENESEMRMN+nS+sRS+sR
-e
-en
masculine
feminine
neuter
plural
adjective
Endings
Nominative
(Subject)
Accusative
(Direct Object)
Dative
(Indirect Object)
Genitive
(Possessive)
Ich gehe zu de
r
Schule.
But most Germans would say:
Ich gehe zur Schule.
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The Secret of the German Language
Here’s the final tip:
Days, months, seasons, and most weather-related nouns are masculine
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Presentations text content in The Secret of the German Language
The Secret of the German Language
Lesson 9:
This is the last lesson in the series!
Yee-haw!
If you understand all of this, then your teacher can sit down while YOU teach the class!
Plus your German friends will be very impressed at your perfect German.
Slide2The Secret of the German Language
Today we get the final prepositions.
We also start some contractions.
After we start contractions, we go into labor.
Pretty soon we give birth to a beautiful bouncing baby sentence.
So get out your
preliminary
notes again.
Write down the following genitive prepositions.
Slide3The Secret of the German Language
anstatt (instead of)trotz (in spite of)während (during)wegen (because of)Genitive will be taken.Anstatt is often shortened to statt.
Slide4RESENESEMRMN+nS+sRS+sR
-e
-en
masculine
feminine
neuter
plural
adjective
Endings
Nominative
(Subject)
Accusative
(Direct Object)
Dative
(Indirect Object)
Genitive
(Possessive)
I’m sure you can figure out that when you see these four prepositions, the phrase uses the genitive case.
Slide5RESENESEMRMN+nS+sRS+sR
-e
-en
masculine
feminine
neuter
plural
adjective
Endings
Nominative
(Subject)
Accusative
(Direct Object)
Dative
(Indirect Object)
Genitive
(Possessive)
So if you want to write a sentence like:
The boy is singing instead of his mother.
You would write:
Der Junge singt statt seine
r
Mutter.
Slide6RESENESEMRMN+nS+sRS+sR
-e
-en
masculine
feminine
neuter
plural
adjective
Endings
Nominative
(Subject)
Accusative
(Direct Object)
Dative
(Indirect Object)
Genitive
(Possessive)
How about this sentence?
I’m learning something despite my teachers!
Ich lerne ja etwas trozt meine
r
Lehrer!
Slide7RESENESEMRMN+nS+sRS+sR
-e
-en
masculine
feminine
neuter
plural
adjective
Endings
Nominative
(Subject)
Accusative
(Direct Object)
Dative
(Indirect Object)
Genitive
(Possessive)
Do you remember this one?
Sabine and Brigitte talk during
the break
Sabine und Brigitte
reden
während
de
r
Pause.
Slide8RESENESEMRMN+nS+sRS+sR
-e
-en
masculine
feminine
neuter
plural
adjective
Endings
Nominative
(Subject)
Accusative
(Direct Object)
Dative
(Indirect Object)
Genitive
(Possessive)
Okay, how about this one:
Because of that cake, I’m now fat.
Wegen de
s
Kuchen
s
bin ich jetzt dick.
Slide9The Secret of the German Language
Finally a number of these prepositions are commonly contracted with certain articles.
I’d like you to write these final notes in
your preliminary notes.
Title these common contractions.
As you see each one, guess what two German words were contracted.
Slide10The Secret of the German Language
zum
zur
im
ins
fürs
vom
beim
aufs
ans
Slide11RESENESEMRMN+nS+sRS+sR
-e
-en
masculine
feminine
neuter
plural
adjective
Endings
Nominative
(Subject)
Accusative
(Direct Object)
Dative
(Indirect Object)
Genitive
(Possessive)
So if you want to say:
I go to the school
You can say
Ich gehe zu de
r
Schule.
Slide12RESENESEMRMN+nS+sRS+sR
-e
-en
masculine
feminine
neuter
plural
adjective
Endings
Nominative
(Subject)
Accusative
(Direct Object)
Dative
(Indirect Object)
Genitive
(Possessive)
Ich gehe zu de
r
Schule.
But most Germans would say:
Ich gehe zur Schule.
Slide13The Secret of the German Language
Here’s the final tip:
Days, months, seasons, and most weather-related nouns are masculine
Nouns that end in –
ik
are feminine (Grammatik!)
And the best
tips:
Es
ist
kein
Meister
vom
Himmel
gefallen
. .
.
Übung
macht
den Meister
So keep working at it!
Slide14RESENESEMRMN+nS+sRS+sR
-e
-en
masculine
feminine
neuter
plural
adjective
Endings
Nominative
(Subject)
Accusative
(Direct Object)
Dative
(Indirect Object)
Genitive
(Possessive)
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