German Grammar: Reviewed and Retold

Ulf Schütze is Professor of Second Language Acquisition at the University of Victoria. He has taught German language courses for over twenty-five years at five universities in Europe, North America, and Oceania. His research has been widely published in the areas of psycholinguistics, computer assisted language learning, as well as on the relationship between language and culture. Lisa Süßenbach has a master’s degree in applied linguistics and is a PhD candidate at the University of Calgary. She has taught German at the University of Victoria, St. Mary’s University, and the University of Calgary since 2013. Her research focus, as well as her dissertation project, is on second language pronunciation attainment and the development of teaching materials for computer-assisted pronunciation training.

Table of Contents

The concept of this Grammar

Acknowledgements






Pronouns Die rote Karte



The many articles Siegfried und der Drache



Genitive case Die schwarzen Jäger



Adjectives Schiller und Goethe



Asking questions Himmelfahrt



Reflexive verbs Walpurgisnacht



Modal verbs Schuberts Schüchternheit



"möchten" and "mögen" Bettina und Beethovens Geheimnis



Separable prefix verbs Im Strandkorb



Two-way prepositions Der blaue Reiter



Commands Störtebeker ärgert die Hanse



Infinitive with "zu" Der Weihnachtsbaum



The verb "werden" Der blaue Engel



Passive voice Der Auftritt Udos



Simple past Hänsel und Gretel



Subjunctive Honeckers Theaterbesuch



Present and past perfect Die Deutsche Bahn



Conjunctions (for long sentences) Angie im Fitnesscenter



Conjunctions to begin a sentence with Helmut Schmidts Zigarette



Relative clauses Im Bürgerbüro

Appendix I: Prepositions usage "für"and "zu"

Appendix II: Verb conjugation

Appendix III: Answer key