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The Pluperfect Tense

The pluperfect tense is used in German to describe something or an action that had happened in the past. It describes something that happened further ba...

The German genitive is used in a number of ways, but its number one use is to denote possession. This could be to do with anything, much like possession in English.

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German uses cases to convey information about the grammatical roles words play in a sentence. In English, this information is often conveyed using word order. The fact that German uses cases instead means...

Reported speech or indirect speech is sometimes used in German to convey what someone else has said. It is not commonly used in spoken language, but instead mainly in journalism, in order to distance the ...

The passive is used when the speaker/writer wants to put emphasis on the action and object of the sentence rather than the subject doing the action. For example in English the active sentence "He is ...