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Grammatical Jargon Explained

• What are tenses?
• What are moods?
• What are grammatical voices?
• Transitive vs Intransitive Verbs
• Overview of the German Tenses

Cases

• Nominative
  • Du vs Ihr vs Sie
  • Subject Pronouns
• Accusative
  • Accusative Personal Pronouns
  • Wen siehst du? – Grammar Story
  • Accusative Prepositions
• Dative
  • What is a Dative Sentence?
  • Indirect Objects with Dative
  • Dative Personal Pronouns
  • Dative Prepositions
  • Verbs with Fixed Prepositions & Dative
  • Verbs with Fixed Two-Way Prepositions & Dative
  • Special Dative Phrases
  • Dative Verbs
  • Wen siehst du? – Grammar Story
• Genitive
  • *Coming Soon

Prepositions

• German Prepositions Songs
• Dative Prepositions
• Two-Way Prepositions
• Da- & Wo-Compounds
• Verbs with Fixed Prepositions
  • Verbs with Fixed Prepositions Don’t Exist
  • Verbs with Fixed Prepositions & Dative
  • Verbs with Fixed Two-Way Prepositions & Dative

Tenses

• What are tenses?
• Overview of the German Tenses
• Present (Präsens)
  • Regular Conjugation in the Present Tense
  • Present Tense of haben
  • Present Tense of sein
  • Konjugation mit “Gewinner” & “Verlierer” von Clueso
  • Irregular Verbs in Present Tense
• Future (Futur 1)
  • Future Tense with werden
• Simple Past (Written Past, Imperfekt, Präteritum)
  • Präteritum Overview
  • haben in Simple Past
  • Regular Verbs in Simple Past
  • Irregular Verbs in Simple Past
  • 3 Principal Parts of German Verbs
  • Modal Verbs in Simple Past
  • Rainers erste Reise
  • eine Geschichte im Präteritum
  • Hans im Glück
  • Rapunzel
• Present Perfect (Spoken Past, Perfekt)
  • Perfekt mit haben & sein
  • Perfekt with Regular Verbs
  • 3 Principal Parts of German Verbs
  • Was hast du am Wochenende gemacht? (Perfekt Example Dialogue)
• Past Perfect (Pluperfect, Plusquamperfekt)
  • Past Perfect explained in 3 Minutes
• Future Perfect (Futur 2)
  • Future Perfect explained in 3 Minutes

Verbs

• haben
  • haben & sein Conjugation Song
  • Present Tense of haben
  • Perfekt mit haben & sein
  • haben in Simple Past
• sein
  • haben & sein Conjugation Song
  • Present Tense of sein
  • Perfekt mit haben & sein
• werden
  • Future with werden
  • Future Perfect with werden
  • werden Master Class
• Separable Verbs
  • Rules & Use
  • Common Separable Prefixes
  • Less Common Separable Prefixes
• Inseparable Verbs
• Modal Verbs (Modal Auxiliaries, Modalverben)
  • Introduction to Modal Verbs
  • Modal Verbs Song
  • dürfen vs können
  • sollen vs müssen
  • mögen vs möchten vs wollen
  • Past Tense of Modal Verbs
• Verbs with Fixed Prepositions
  • Verbs with Fixed Prepositions Don’t Exist
  • Verbs with Fixed Prepositions & Dative
  • Verbs with Fixed Two-Way Prepositions & Dative
• Reflexive Verbs
  • Reflexive Verbs Don’t Exist
  • Reflexive Verbs Skit
• Infinitival Clauses with zu
• Transitive vs Intransitive Verbs

Moods

• What are moods?
• Imperative (Command Form)
  • Making the Command Form
  • Giving Directions
• Konjunktiv 1
  Subjunctive **Coming Soon**
• Konjunktiv 2 (Subjunctive 2)

Passive Voice

• What are grammatical voices?

Word Order

• Word Order Basics
• Time and Word Order
• Basic Questions & Answers
• Question Words and Question Word Order
• Word Order with Direct & Indirect Objects
• Conjunctions (Konjunktionen)
  • Coordinating Conjunctions
  • Adverbial Conjunctions
  • Subordinating Conjunctions
    • Part 1 (Intermediate German Series)
    • Part 2 (Intermediate German Series)
    • Subordinating Conjunctions *New*
  • Two-Part Conjunctions
• Separable Verbs
  • Rules & Use
  • Common Separable Prefixes
  • Less Common Separable Prefixes
• Inseparable Verbs
• Relative Pronouns

Articles & Determiners

• Definite Articles **Coming Soon**
• jeder vs alle
• Indefinite Articles **Coming Soon**
• Possessive Adjectives

Adjectives

• Comparative & Superlative)
• Intensifiers (sehr, besonders, echt, wirklich, total & ziemlich)
• Describe People
• Describe Yourself in German

Pronouns

• Du vs Ihr vs Sie
• Subject Pronouns (Nominative Pronouns)
• Accusative Pronouns
• Dative Pronouns
• Question Words and Question Word Order
• Relative Pronouns
• Da- & Wo-Compounds