| German I, Semester I; Der Kalender |
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Introduction | Section 1 | Section 2 | Section 3 | Dictionaries |
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| Section Three: Part C Verbs and Verb Endings You have already learned some simple sentences in German such as Ich schwimme or Katrin wohnt in München. You have already leaned the personal pronouns. If you do not feel you have remembered them, you should go back now and review. The next step is to learn how to "conjugate" verbs, that is, learn how to make verbs in their correct forms with the personal pronouns. Any verb that you learn is presented in the "infinitive" form. The infinitve form is the word that you would look up in a dictionary. In English, for example, you would look up the word "swim" or "write", knowing that if you were speaking about it in the "infinitive" form, you would most likely say "to swim" or "to write". In German, it is just one word, such as schwimmen "to swim" or schreiben "to write". You have probably noticed that both verbs end in "en", which makes the stem + en in the infinitive form. The stem is schwimm or schreib. *Note: not all verbs conform to this rule. You will learn 'irregular' verbs later.
After looking at the table above, you probably noticed that the 'easy' forms to remember are 'wir' and 'sie/Sie' because the verb remains in the infinitive form. Try to remember the personal pronouns and the endings in the order that they are presented here. This will make things much easier both now, and for verbs you will learn later.
Beispiel (example): Rainer/schwimmen/am Dienstag 1. Alexander und Markus/schreiben/auf Deutsch.  Review and Practice ActivityLet's see if you can remember these things in a short review as we wind up this second unit and you prepare for the section quiz and unit exam. Click on the question or item to see if you are correct when you finish.
If you are having problems with any of those areas, you need to go back to the section where those activities were and be sure to practice until practice makes perfect. Ah, another saying in German: Übung macht den Meister. In English, we say "practice makes perfect". In German, "Practice makes the master". Very similar in meaning, but this is another fine example of how languages cannot be directly translated from one to another.  Homework AssignmentPrepare this assignment to turn in to your teacher. Write six questions to someone you know asking them if they do certain activities in German. Use vocabulary that we have learned in this course and write your questions in complete sentences. Then, pretend that you are the friend and answer these questions in complete sentences. You will end up with a total of 12 "lines" (questions/answers). This assignment is worth 16 points. Discussion ActivityPost in the discussion area three questions that you have learned in this unit. Respond to some other student's question there. Use German that you have been learning in this course. This assignment is worth 8 points.
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Go on to the Section 3 Quiz and then on to the Unit Exam.