German subordinate clauses and, therefore, subordinating conjunctions change the word order in a sentence. Let’s learn the words that are on this list. In German…

A number of verbs use the reflexive pronoun in the dative case. Only two of the dative reflexive pronouns are different from their equivalent accusative reflexive pronoun.…

German signifies directional movement (vs. position) in several ways that English does not. The adverbs hin and her are examples of this specification of movement in a…

The superlative is the highest form of comparison. We put am or the definite article in front of the adjective and add -ste(n) to the end. The formation is the same for all adjectives…

The comparative is the first form of comparison. The ending -er is added to the adjective and the sentences is constructed with als (than). The German Comparative is quite similar to the forms…

German Present Perfect Inseparable Prefix Verbs do not add the normal past participle prefix ge- in the perfect tenses. Examples: bekommen becomes hat…

All of the separable-prefix verbs form their past participle with ge-. Examples: Sie hat gestern angerufen. Separable prefix verbs can be regular, irregular or mixed. Separable prefixes…

German temporal prepositions are related to time and answer questions like “When?” and “For how long?” Some require the accusative case, some the dative case,…

The German Comparative is quite similar to the forms in English Grammar. We use comparative adjectives to compare things. There are three comparative forms in…

There are nine prepositions that always take the dative case, but for memorizing them, we will use only the most common eight (see chart below; gegenüber is not listed). A…