So you can forget about the other genders completely. Ist es deiner?”Īrticles, pronouns, indefinite pronouns, possessives, negations, two way prepositions… it’s pretty much all there, except for adjective endings and noun endings.īut what you don’t need to worry about is the gender. So here’s what we’ll do: I’ll give you a statement in English and you have to translate it, using the proper words in the proper case.Īnd you’ll need pretty much the entire case skill set… Here’s an example. And even for B1 learners, it is a challenge. But it will be virtually impossible for you to get even close to 50% correct. !! This exercise is a challenge for B1 learners !! But either way… I want to try out a new kind of exercise and see how it works for you and how you like it.
Exercises in german grammar free#
By knowing the gender, by knowing that it’s NOT es, your free up brain capacity that can actually really notice this it and thus build awareness. For an English speaker it is already an effort not to say “es”here. It translated to er, because Hund is masculine in German. And maybe you don’t even know whether the case or the gender was the problem.Īnd another thing is, that you can’t build up automatisms if you’re constantly gender hopping.
If you got the case right but you were wrong about the gender, your answer will be wrong and you’ll have this little moment of failure. They just both influence which entry of a table is correct.īut picking the right gender for a noun and the right case are two completely independent tasks. You see, the grammatical gender itself has NOTHING to do with cases in the sense that they don’t influence each other. There are many ways, to break up the big topic cases into smaller chunks, but there is one thing that most textbooks and exercises you can find online have in common… they deal with all three genders at a time.Īnd I’m not so sure this is very helpful. Or a lecture about Two Way Prepositions and which case to use. Or a chart of the definite articles for all cases. Like… the section about Accusative case in a beginners book. And overall it’s way too much to digest at once, so it’s broken down into little chunks. There’s the different endings for different word groups, then the question of which case to use with verbs and which case to use with prepositions.
Exercises in german grammar how to#
Last week, we got sweaty over the question how to translate before and after and this week, we’ll take on one of everyone’s favorite grammar topics:Īnd we’ll do something a little bit unusual, something that is kind of rare to find but that I think might be really helpful… we’ll eliminate gender from the equation.Ĭases are quite a big topic. Brain wrecking, cramp inducing, no mercy having German summer boot camp.
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