Textproduction: Connectives/Linking Words
Satzverknüpfungen
Einen Gedanken hinzufügen
Das Gegenteil ausdrücken
Einen Vergleich anstellen
Eine Folgerung ausdrücken
Eine Einräumung ausdrücken
Eine zeitliche Verbindung
knüpfen
Eine Begründung anführen
Eine Bedingung ausdrücken
Ein Beispiel anführen
Die Reihenfolge verdeutlichen
Einen Gedanken neu
formulieren
Einen Gedankengang
abschließen
Hilfreiche Wendungen
Argumente ordnen
Die eigene Meinung
ausdrücken
in addition, further, furthermore, also, besides, in the
same way…
yet, however, on the one/other hand, on the contrary, in
contrast, in spite of, despite of
similarly, in the same way, likewise
consequently, therefore, as a result
although, though, even if, after all, in any case
after, before, while, eventually (endlich!  nach einer langen
Zeit), recently, lately, at last, in the end, in the past, when,
as soon as
therefore, that is why, for this reason, because, since
if, unless, provided that, in case that
For example, for instance
First, second, next, finally (am Ende einer Argumentation!), in
the end
in other words, that means, that is, that is to say…
(nämlich/das heißt…)
In conclusion, in brief, in short, on the whole…
- First of all
- To begin with I would like to…
- Another (significant)
reason/advantage/consequence is…
- This brings us to the question of whether (eco-
tourism really pursues an ecologically-friendly concept.)
- In addition/Moreover/Besides/Furthermore/ you
cannot deny that (eco-tourism harms the environment
as well.)
- It is worth stating at this point that (eco-tourism at
least tries to respect …)
- But above all…
- It seems to me that…
- It’s been my experience that…
- As far as I can see…
- The way I see it…
- My own view of that is…
- I am afraid the author is wrong in
saying/claiming…
- I maintain that…
- I am convinced that…
- In my opinion…
- To my mind you can say that/accept that….
1

Auf die Gegenmeinung
eingehen
Eine logische Folgerung ziehen
Einen Schluss formulieren
- My main argument/my point is that…
- Surely/Obviously it is wrong to say that…
- All the same/Nevertheless it is wrong to say
that…
- Contrary to the public belief/the popular
idea/notion…
- Despite all those arguments we still face the
problem that…
- In contrast to/As opposed to…
- It is true that…. But t is definitely wrong to say
that…
- We mustn’t forget, however, that…
- All this shows that it is unwise to assume that…
- From all this follows that…
- So/Therefore/That is why we can’t assume that…
- All in all I therefore reject the view that…
- In sum/In brief I cannot accept the suggestion
that…
- To conclude/In conclusion/As a result you can
safely say that…
- Weighing the pros and cons one comes to the
conclusion that…