German for Reading Knowledge

, by Jannach, Hubert; Korb, Richard Alan

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ISBN: 9781413003703 | 1413003702
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 5/5/2004

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Recognized as THE book for teaching academic reading skills, the fifth edition continues to introduce students in the humanities, arts, and social sciences to a basic knowledge of German that they can use independently to begin to read specialized literature in their respective fields.

German Nouns and the Definite Article
Gender of Nouns
Present and Past Tense of the Verb sein (to be)
Interrogatives
Cognates and Loan Words
_bungssStze
Aller Anfang ist schwer
Case: Nominative and Accusative
Infinitive
Present Tense of Regular Verbs
Present Tense of the Verb haben (to have)
The Metric System
Cardinal Numbers. _bungssStze
Johann Sebastian Bach: Seine Musik und seine Famlie
Dative
Genitive
Plural of Nouns
N-Nouns
Past Tense of Weak Verbs and of haben
Meanings of the Past Tense
_bungssStze
Leben des Galiliei, ein Theaterstnck in fnnfzehn Bildern von Bertolt Brecht
Indefinite Articles
Kein and Other ein-Words
Irregular Forms in the Present Tense of Strong Verbs
Es gibt there is, there are
Compound Nouns
Ordinal Numbers
_bungssStze
Kurze Geschichte der deutschen Hochschulen
Der Words
Simple Past Tense of Strong Verbs
Irregular Weak Verbs
Present and Simple Past Tense of werden (to become)
Word Order
_bungssStze
Erzbistumsstadt Magdeburg
Deutschland
Prepositions
Idiomatic and Special Meanings
Contraction of Prepositions
Prepositions Following Nouns or Pronouns
Indefinite Pronouns: man, jemand, niemand
_bungssStze
Der 17. Juni 1953: Auszug aus Stefan Heyms "Fnnf Tage im Juni"
Adjective Endings
Information from Adjective Endings
Adjectives Used as Nouns
_bungssStze
Die Romantik
Adverbs
Verbs with Inseparable and Separable Prefixes
Recognizing Singulars and Plurals of Nouns
_bungssStze
Dioramenmaler: Der nicht so gut bekannte Schinkel
Perfect Tenses
Meanings of the Perfect Tenses
Seit + Present Tense = have been + ing
Past Participles
Word Order
_bungssStze
Bertolt Brechts AnfSnge
Present Participle
Participles Used as Adjectives and Adverbs
Meanings of Present and Past Participles
Past Participle Used with SEIN to Express State of Being
Participles Used as Nouns
Infinitives Used as Nouns
_bungssStze
Der BSr: Stadtsymbol und NaturphSnomen
Die Bewohner +Sterreichs
Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs
Exceptional Comparisons
Recognition of Comparatives and Superlatives
Special Uses of the Comparative and Superlative
Comparatives and Superlatives Used as Nouns
_bungssStze
Menschen mit HIV und AIDS: Immer h÷her Anzahl der Infizierten
Future Tense
Future Perfect Tense
Future Tenses Used to Express Probability
Selbst, selber
_bungssStze
Die WelternShrungskrise
Passive Voice
Present and Past Tenses of the Passive Voice
Three Uses of werden
Personal Pronouns
Agreement of Pronoun and Antecedent
_bungssStze
Sturm und Drang
Perfect Tenses of the Passive Voice
Infinitive of the Passive Voice
Future Tense of the Passive Voice
Future Perfect of the Passive Voice
Suffix ?er
Suffix ?in. _bungssStze
Ostudeutschlands Frauen suchen SelbststSndigkeit
Reflexive Pronouns
Reflexive Verbs
Position of the Reflexive Pronoun in Main Clauses
Suffixes -bar and ?lich
_bungssStze
Die Hessen im amerikanischen Freiheitskreig
Paracelsus
Modal Auxiliaries Express Modalities
Conjugation of the Modals
Modals and the Dependent Infinitive
Fractions
_bungssStze
"Was ist AufklSrung?"
Perfect Tenses of Modals
Double Infinitive with Other Verbs
Objective vs
Subjective Meanings of Modal Auxiliaries
_bungssStze
Gr÷”ter Raub-Saurier in Patagonien entdeckt
Coordinating Conjunctions
Subordinating Conjunctions
Learn to Differentiate
Wenn auch, auch wenn (even if, even though, even when)
"False Friends"
_bungssStze
Der Zeppelin im Ersten Weltkreig
Relative Pronouns
Recognizing Relative Clauses
Welch- as Relative Pronoun, Indefinite Article, and Interrogative Pronoun
Case of Relative Pronoun Indicates Function
Was as a Relative Pronoun
_bungssStze
Karl Mays Amerikabild und -Reise
Demonstrative Pronoun.s Other Demonstratives
Suffixes ?los, -fach, and -mal (time, times)
_bungssStze
Buchbesprechung
Das Fals
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