A person who has not studied German can
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A person who has not studied German can form no idea of what a perplexing language it is: [. . . ] Mark Twain
The Germans have a kind of parenthesis, which they make by splitting a verb in two and putting half of it at the beginning of an exciting chapter and the other half at the end of it. Can any one conceive of anything more confusing than that? These things are called ‘separable verbs’. The German grammar is blistered all over with separable verbs; and the wider the two portions of one of them are spread apart, the better the author of the crime is pleased with his performance. A favourite one is reiste ab, which means departed. Here is an example which I culled from a novel and reduced to English:
“The trunks now being now ready, he de- after kissing his mother and sisters, and once more pressing to his bosom his adored Gretchen, who, dressed in simple white muslin, with a single tuberose in the ample folds of her rich brown hair, had tottered feebly down the stairs, still pale from the terror and excitement of the past evening, but longing to lay her poor aching head yet once again upon the breast of him whom she loved more dearly than life itself, parted. ”
PREFIXES • INSEPARABLE PREFIXES • SEPARABLE PREFIXES forget = vergessen receive = bekommen understand = verstehen mißverstehen abfahren = drive off mitbringen = bring along anrufen = call (up)
SEPARABLE PREFIXES to depart = abfahren = to drive off = (ab+fahren) Meine Eltern fahren morgen früh nach Florida ab. to bring along = mitbringen ( mit+ bringen) Er bringt seine Freundin zur Party mit.
SEPARABLE PREFIXES ab an auf aus ein her hin mit um weg weiter zu zurück • • • • off, away on, at up, open out of (prefix) “in” toward away with, along indicating change away further, continue to, closed back
SEPARABLE PREFIXES ab an auf zu aus ein her hin mit um weg weiter zurück • • • [Abkommen] ankommen aufkommen auskommen [Einkommen] her / hinkommen mitkommen umkommen wegkommen weiterkommen zurückkommen
SEPARABLE PREFIXES ab auf aus her mit um weg weiter zurück an zu ein hin • • kommen gehen laufen machen fahren nehmen bringen ….
CONJUGATION Personal Pronouns: • ich • du • er, sie, es Infinitive: anrufen • rufe … an • rufst … an • ruft … an • wir • ihr • sie • rufen … an • ruft … an • rufen … an
PREFIXES • HIN • HER indicates a movement away from the speaker towards somewhere else It is often used in conjunction with another prefixes like indicates a movement towards the speaker from somewhere It is often used in conjunction with another prefixes like auf - aus - ein - unter
EXAMPLES • hineingehen • Er geht in das Haus hinein. (I am outside and he goes in) • herauskommen • Er kommt aus dem Haus heraus. ( I am outside and comes out)
EXAMPLES • hinausfahren • Er fährt hinaus. • Er fährt herausfahren • heraufkommen herunterkommen • Er kommt herauf. • Er kommt herunter
Der Abend ist lustig. Viele Studenten kommen aus der “Axe” heraus. Sie gehen in die Nacht hinaus. Sie möchten den Berg hinaufsteigen, aber sie kommen sehr schlecht hinauf oder hinunter Die “Axe” macht jetzt zu. Viele Studenten fahren morgen wieder hin und gehen hinein.
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