German Language Course Content

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The course will contain the following:

1. German Alphabets

German language uses English set of Alphabets but there are four more letters
added to complete the language. The pronunciation for letter in German differs
from English and students will be learning how native speakers pronounce
them.

2. German Articles (Artikel)

In English the word the is used in the same way for masculine nouns, feminine
nouns, singular as well as plural nouns. However, in German language it
defers. Der means the in German but it takes different forms depending on
gender, tense, number, etc. Students will be learning all the forms in this
course (excluding the Genitive Tense).

3. Nouns (Deklination von Substantiven)

There are many rules which hold in English but not in German. For example,
every noun must start with a capital letter irrespective of its position in the
sentence. Moreover, nouns have gender and hence the article will be decided
according to that. Students will learn basic rules and list of nouns used in
everyday life.

4. Nominative Case (Nominativ)

Nominative is the most basic case which can be recognized from the question
word of the sentence. If a student can ask someone with a Who? or What?
that will be called Nominative Case. Moreover, students will also learn about
transitive and intransitive verbs.

5. Accusative Case (Akkusativ)

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Accusative comes second in the list of cases and can be recognized from the
question word of the sentence. If a student can ask someone with a Whom?
or What? that will be called Accusative Case.

6. Dative Case (Der Dativ)

After you are familiar with the above cases you can move on to Dative Case.
You will be learning more verbs than transitive and intransitive verbs.If a
student can ask someone with a To whom? that will be called Dative Case.

7. The Plural (Der Plural)

One cannot form plural of every noun in German by adding s in the end. There
are around 10 different ways to do so. Students will be learning and practicing
all those endings to form plurals.

8. Personal Pronouns (Personalpronomen)

To interact with anyone the first thing you need to do is greeting them and
hence one must be familiar with personal pronouns. It is the substitute of a
noun such as He for a man or a boy, She for a girl or a woman and It for
neutral nouns. There are other personal pronouns as well for plural and they
will be discussed in this unit as well.

9. Preposition (Prpositionen)

Preposition indicates the position or place of an object and in German they are
categorized according to the above discussed two cases only (Accusative and
Dative). Students will get a list of preposition and learn which to use according
to the case of the sentence.

10. Conjugation of verbs in Present Tense (Konjugation von Verben im

Prsens)

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Conjugation is the process of changing the ending of verbs according to the
tense. In thus unit students will know how to conjugate a verb when the
sentence is in Present tense.

11. Conjugation of verbs in Present Perfect Tense (Konjugation von Verben im

Perfekt)

In thus unit students will know how to conjugate a verb when the sentence is in
Present Perfect tense.

12. Separable and Inseparable Verbs (Trennbare und untrennbare Verben)

There are verbs in German with prefixes and they can be distinguished
between Separable and Inseparable Verbs. Students will get a list of common
verbs and will learn to classify them.

13. Modal Verbs (Modalverben)

In English a modal verbs modifies the main verb and this is same in German.
For example, can, may, shall, etc. are called modal verbs. In German the
vocabulary and rules changes for these verbs according to the personal
pronoun used and whether the noun is singular or plural.

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