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Today’s lesson is about genitive prepositions. Which prepositions require the genitive case all of the time? What's up with "wegen" sometimes using dative instead? All that and more will be...
Never in the history of German learning have there ever been two more misunderstood two-letter words than the words “in” and “im”. What are they? What do they mean? Are...
There are nine prepositions that can switch between the accusative and dative cases. They are called two-way prepositions or “Wechselpräpositionen”.
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The dative case has a variety of uses. It can be used with indirect objects, dative verbs and certain prepositions. Today we are focusing on the prepositions that ALWAYS require the dative...
Today you will learn the accusative prepositions in German and how to use them in your own sentences. By the time this lesson ends, you will be able to wow your German friends with your...
Wenn ich in ein Zimmer gehe und meinen zweijährigen Sohn mit diesem Gesicht sehe, weiß ich genau, dass, kurz bevor ich ins Zimmer getreten bin, er etwas ganz verschmitzt gemacht hatte.
...You have likely already heard about the future tense in German, which is called “Futur 1”. But, if there is a Futur 1, there has to be a “Futur 2”, right? Of course. Today...
Morgen wird Max eine Reise machen. Er wird in den Zoo gehen, weil er die Tiere sehen will. Um 9 Uhr fährt er mit dem Bus los. Im Zoo wird er eine große Tüte Popcorn kaufen. Max wird...
In this lesson you will learn how to conjugate and properly use German modal verbs (auxiliaries) in sentences. I'll explain what modal verbs are, why they are important and what you need to know...
Speaking German with native speakers is tough. It can be incredibly frustrating when you can’t understand everything they are saying, they speak too quickly for you to understand and you...
This lesson is a listening/reading comprehension lesson focusing on the Perfekt tense. It is a conversation between two friends about a party from the weekend before. You can watch the video above...
This lesson is a listening/reading comprehension lesson focusing on the Perfekt tense. You can watch the video above or read the text below and expand your knowledge of the German Perfekt...
