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Relative clauses are used to add extra information about a person, thing or event to a sentence, such as the bold part of this English sentence: The man who loves fast cars always drives on the motorway . Th...

German, unlike many other languages, has 4 cases (nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive), each with their own version of the article (der, die, das, dem, den etc)... but what fits where? There are two...

Michael and Hanna are 15 and 36 years old, respectively, at the start of the novel. This is important, as she is old enough to be his mother, who belongs to a different generation. We are encouraged to read ...

In German we have 6 tenses:1 for the present tense, 3 for the past tense and two describe something in the future. We call them Praesens, Perfekt, Praeteritum, Plusquamperfekt , Futur 1 and Futur 2. The firs...

The technical rule used for inversion in German is that the verb always comes in the second position (as the second word in a sentence). For example, in the sentence ' Ich sehe das Haus ' (I see the house) '...