A Brief German Grammar With Exercises 1897

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...the clause: --Infinitive Preterit Indic. Past Participle burd?'4eb-en Ieb-te.. imrcfy burd?'=gc4eb-t biird?'=3ii=lcben Present leb-e.. butcb, leb-ft.. burd?, leb-t.. burd?; leben.. burd?, etc. ab'-.faU-en f1el.. ab ab'=ge=fall-en ab=3UfaIlen Pres. Indic. fall-e.. ab, fall-ft.. ab, fall-t.. ab; fall-en.. ab, etc. 164. Separable prefixes are: All independent words occurring in composition with a verb, except those mentioned in 162, 3, when toneless. The separable prefixes always have the accent: aus'=geben, go out; etrt'=Iaben, invite; roeg'=nebmen, take away, remove; acbt'=geben, give heed; fcurcrpbrecben, break through, etc. Exercises XXIX, XXX Verb Phrases 165. German, like English, expresses various tense, mode, or voice relations by phrases consisting of one or more auxiliaries and a nominal form (Participle or Infinitive) of the main verb. The principle of this formation is the same, on the whole, in the two languages; but there are some discrepancies as regards the auxiliary used in certain cases, and especially as regards the position of the auxiliary and the main verb in the clause. I. Simple Verb Phrases (with one Auxiliary) 166. Simple Verb Phrases with the Auxiliary baben, have. These phrases, serving to express past action, are analo gously formed in German and English: id babe (bu baft, etc.) geltebt, '/ have (you have, etc.) loved; icb, fyatte, etc., geltebt, / had, etc., loved. But the position of the auxiliary and the main verb varies: --1. In Independent clauses (and cf. 2, note i) the nominal verb form comes at the end of the clause, the Infinitive (with its 3u, if used) after the Past Participle: --33? babe ben ITCaun ge = I have loved the man. Hebt. Sie fann ben ITCann nicbt She cannot have loved the geltebt fyaben. man....

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