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.
í%e subject
2.
í%e complement
3.
í%e direct object
1.
Die Nominativ-Erganzung/
The subject
Evey sentence has a subject. It can consbt, for example, of an 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.