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The imperfect, sometimes known as the simple past, and the perfect tenses are used in German to describe events that occurred in the past. Where English has one way to form the past tense, German has two....

1. As we know, every noun has a gender, but that gender also has four different variations, depending on where it lands in a sentence. 2. The four cases are: nominative, genitive, dative and accusative...

There are 4 main cases in German, the nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive.

The nominative case is the subject of the sentence: what is doing the action - 'THE MAN throws the ball'

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Plusquamferfekt is a verb form or tense used in German to talk about an event that has begun in the past and that has also already ended in the past. It is similar to past perfect in English! Example: Er ...

Weil - means because. Weil sends the verb to the end of the sentence. Example:  Ich gehe ins Kino, weil<...