Categories of German main verbs

HAUPTVERBEN: Categories and types of German main verbs

Understanding and properly conjugating German verbs begin with knowing their major categories and in this case, the subcategories of the

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Brauchen müssen difference

BRAUCHEN oder MÜSSEN plus INFINITIVE

When two verbs have a similar meaning and seem complicated to tell apart, the most important thing to do is

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PARTIZIP II: How the past participle is formed and used in German

The Partizip II is a type of German Partizipien known as the past participle form of a verb in English.

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DAMIT oder UM…ZU: Their differences and similarities?

It is true that German has more words than English and while this can be of great advantage, it can

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PLUSQUAMPERFEKT: The past perfect tense in German

As the highest form of past tense in German, the Plusquamperfekt tense expresses a scenario of what happened before other

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Gases in German

LASSEN + INFINITIVE WITHOUT THE PREPOSITION “ZU ” AND PERFECT TENSE WITHOUT “GE”

In a previous topic “um zeal zu + Infinitive” I explained how you can use two or more verbs without

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