german language course summary of grammar

Grammatikübersicht Summary of grammar

A Übersicht über die Satzgliedstellung

Word order

1. Das Verb und seine Erganzungen

The verb and the other mainparts of a sentence

In German the verb is the central element in a sentence. í%e other main parts ofa sentence ilztroduced in the firstpart of this course are:

1. Die Nominativ-Erganzung/ The subject

1. í%e subject 2. í%e complement 3. í%e direct object

Evey sentence has a subject. It can consbt, for example, of a n article and noun, aproper noun or apronoun.

2. Die Qualitativ-Erganzung/ The complement

A complement is a word, orgroup of words, which completes the sense of a sentence. It is used after verbs which do not take a direct object, for example, the verb sein (to be), orheiBen (to be called).

When asking a question about the subject of a sentence, the interrogative pronoun wer? (who?) is used to refer topeople, andwas? (what?) to refer to inanimate objects.