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I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they, You (formal)

I am, you are, he/she/it is, we are

I have, you have, he/she/it has

Masculine, feminine, neuter

my father, my mother, my child

I work, you work, he works

I eat, you eat, he eats / I read, I drive

get up, begin, watch TV

I see the man, the woman, the child

I can, I would like, I want

the table - the tables, the book - the books

I give to the man, the woman, the child

in the kitchen, on the table, under the bed

I am not tired. I have no money

Come! Go! Read! Listen!

Who? What? When? Where? How? Why?

Are you tired? Do you have time?

big, small, beautiful, good, bad, new, old

I drink coffee. He buys bread.

for you, without me, through the city

by bus, home, from Germany

me and you, tea or coffee, small but nice

now, today, tomorrow, yesterday, always, never

haben/sein + past participle

my, your, his, her, our, your

get up, shop, watch TV, come along

Obligation, permission, recommendation

cheaper, cheapest

Accusative (where to?) / Dative (where?)

on Monday, in January, at 8, from...to

Go!, Take the tablets!

I cannot come because I am sick

a good friend (m), a good friend (f)

a good friend (acc m), a good friend (acc f)

with a good friend (m), with a good friend (f)

When I have time, I will come

my father's car, my mother's house

Irregular verbs in perfect tense

wash oneself, dress oneself, be happy

I was, I had

me, to me, you, to you, him, to him

Connecting sentences

had to, could, wanted, should, was allowed

this, that

someone, nobody, something, nothing, all, some

Verb in position 2, time-manner-place

who, what, when, where, how, why, which

Formation with haben/sein + past participle

Forms and usage in narratives

Verb position at end of clause

der, die, das as relative pronouns

Endings after definite/indefinite article

Assumption and supposition

would, had, were, could

think of, wait for, be happy about

I intend to go to Berlin

Difference between "als" and "wenn"

Expressing reasons

be happy, be annoyed, be interested in

Expressing past before past

werden + infinitive for future and assumptions

Contrasts and restrictions

werden + past participle

bigger, biggest

Expressing purpose and intention

If I had time, I would...

He says he is coming

in, on, at, over, under, in front of, behind, next to, between

help (dative), ask (accusative)

stand up vs. understand

the sleeping child, the closed window

make a decision, be afraid

Different meanings of lassen

Expressing hypothetical situations, polite requests and wishes

Reporting others statements and reports

Formation and use of passive in present, past, perfect, pluperfect and future

Difference between process passive and state passive

Complex relative clauses with prepositions and genitive

Expressions like "sich lassen", "sein + zu + Infinitiv", "-bar"

Local and directional relative clauses

Expressing concessions and contradictions

Expressing consequences and results

in order to, without, instead of

Using present participle in attributive position

Using past participle in attributive position

Shortening relative clauses using participles

Substantivization of verbs for formal texts

Substantivization of adjectives

Extended use of genitive

Prepositions like "aufgrund", "trotz", "während", "wegen"

Verbs, nouns and adjectives with fixed prepositions

Contrasting opposites

therefore, consequently, as a result

both...and, neither...nor, either...or, not only...but also

however, though, on the other hand, whereas

Extended infinitive constructions

Expressing contrasts and alternatives

Describing manner and method

Complex declension with multiple adjectives

Special declension of masculine nouns

Transforming nominal constructions into verbs

Assumption, supposition and conclusion

Expressing assumptions about the past

Complex indirect speech with time shifts

Unreal conditions and wishes in the past

Nuancing statements with particles

Passive with modal verbs in different tenses

Stylistically sophisticated passive alternatives

Extended substantivization for academic texts

Nominal constructions in formal contexts

Complex sentence structures with multiple levels

Frame structures in demanding sentences

Artful sentence structures for stylistic effects

Complex attributive participial constructions

Participles expressing necessity and possibility

Demanding relative constructions

Relative clauses with "wer", "was", "welch-"

Formal conjunctions and adverbs

even if, even though, although

insofar, namely, specifically

seem to, tend to, threaten to, promise to

Assumption about the past

Consequences of hypothetical situations

as if, as though with subjunctive

Rhetorical questions, ellipses, parallelisms

Inversion for emphasis and stylistic effects

by virtue of, for the purpose of, by means of, according to

hereto, hereby, thereby, thereupon

Expressions for strengthening and weakening

Cautious formulations in academic texts

Complex time expressions in academic texts

Expressing anteriority, simultaneity and posteriority

Typical formulations in academic works
