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German Language Basics: Pronouns & Greetings

The document provides an introduction to the German language, focusing on personal pronouns, verb forms, and sentence structure. It explains the differences between formal and informal conversations, as well as the structure of questions starting with 'W'. The document concludes with a recommendation to learn vocabulary as presented, with the promise of deeper understanding in future lessons.

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German Language Basics: Pronouns & Greetings

The document provides an introduction to the German language, focusing on personal pronouns, verb forms, and sentence structure. It explains the differences between formal and informal conversations, as well as the structure of questions starting with 'W'. The document concludes with a recommendation to learn vocabulary as presented, with the promise of deeper understanding in future lessons.

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Introduction to the

German Language

Compiled by Monalisa

Personalpronomen(Personal Pronoun)

Personal pronoun is a substitute for a proper name of person.


Nominative case shows that the noun or pronoun is the subject
of sentence rather than object.

The personal pronouns are present in two cases that is singular


and plural. We also have the personal pronoun for formal and
informal use cases. In the above picture you can clearly see the
german personalpronomen with corresponding english personal
pronouns.

Verbs Forms
In german language we have different form of verb with different
personal pronoun. We will start with few verbs and will continue
to build up as we progress in the series.
Different forms of verb

For now just remember the verb form as it is. Later when in
vocabulary section we will understand the meaning of each
sentence.

Greetings
How do a conversation start? We meet, greet and ask questions
about each other. So let us understand how we do this in german.
Introductory Greetings
Goodbye in german

Short Conversation
To understand a sentence we need to know about the sentence
structure. As we have both formal and informal
personalpronomen we have sentence structure accordingly.

FORMAL SENTENCE (among colleagues ): Sie + Vorname


+ Nachname

INFORMAL SENTENCE (among friends) : du + Vorname


Informal Conversation

Now you will ask how we will know if the conversation is formal
or informal. There are two checks:

1. See the verb form

2. See the personal pronoun attached

By matching these with the tables provided above you can relate
the sentence.

W-Frage
Also known as questions starting with letter “W”. Let us see the
structure of W-frage: Wie/Wo/Woher + verb + object
W-frage informal

The above table shows the W-frage in informal form. As an


exercise you can try the formal W-frage. Just keep in mind formal
personal pronoun and verb form used. Both of these things are in
this article. You just have to match it correctly.

Also after seeing all these sentences what do you find the
common thing in sentence structure? If you say place of verb
then it is absolutely …….. correct!!!

In all the sentences the structure is: subject + verb + object

Vocabulary
Now as we close our part 1 we will go through the vocabulary. I
would recommend you, for now, to learn it as it is. With the
progress of course you will understand more clearly.
Nouns with der

Nouns with die


Nouns with das

With this we will finish for today.

Vielen Dank für Ihre Zeit, Auf Wiedersehen!!

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