Category: German

Not only will learning idioms improve your German comprehension, but it’ll also give you insight into German culture and history. German idioms are chock-full of…

The German personal pronoun es is the English equivalent of it and has similar functions. Es is certainly used as “it” in both the nominative…

When selbst precedes the noun or phrase to which it relates, then it has the emphatic meaning “even”, as an adverb. In other positions, selbst is completely equivalent to selber,…

A Relative Pronoun is a pronoun that introduces two types of clauses, namely, a relative clause/ adjective clause and a noun clause. The commonly used…

Prepositions in combination with verbs can specify things like position, time, possession or the way something is done. German verbs with prepositions can have fixed…

Demonstrative pronouns in German, just like in English, is used to point to something specific within a sentence. A demonstrative pronoun can be used for…

Most two-part conjunctions in German have direct English equivalents, so it’s faster to learn them by example than to break them down grammatically. The easiest…

To conjugate modal verbs in the Perfekt, we still need the auxiliary “haben” (conjugated with the subject). The difference here is made by the two infinitives at the end…

When als (als ob, als wenn) is used to mean as if or as though, the verb in its clause should be in the subjunctive.  Subjunctive II (general subjunctive) occurs more…

If you plan to improve your German by reading news articles, this is an important form to learn. The special subjunctive appears most frequently in…