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'Wann' is a question word and can only be used to start questions beginning with ' when ' or in indirect questions . For example, in the question ' Wann hast du Geburtstag?' (When is your birthday?) or the i...

The perfect tense is a way to talk about what has happened in the past. It is a way of expressing something that happens in the past generally, it's something you have done, probably many times and are likel...

Aufgrund des rasanten Wirtschaftswachstums kam es Mitte der 1950er-Jahre zu einem Arbeitskräftemangel. Die Bundesrepublik begann im Ausland Arbeitskräfte anzuwerben. Die Boom Jahre der Anwerbung endeten 1973...

The "active" voice is the standard sentence formation you will have learnt, so a subject acting on an object. For example, 'The dog bites the man'. The passive voice changes this, so that the objec...

Sometimes you can tell by the suffix. Words ending with -chen, -lein, -ment or -teil are usually neuter. Words ending with -schaft, -ung, -keit, -heit , -in (if it's a person) or -e are usually feminine and ...