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Solution – cloze Posted by on Mar 15, 2013

Here´s the solution to the cloze I published some days ago. Compare it to yours… 1. neue, rote, dunkle, groß, kleinere 2. gelben, schöne, neuen, schönen 3. dunklen, braune, braune, modern 4. schwarzen, schön, teuer, echtem, teurer 5. elegante, hoch, billigeren 6. interessante, Junge, intelligente, netten, humorvollen, harmonisches 7. ungebildeten, gekühlten, gebackenem, unerhört 8. lautem…

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Lückentext – cloze Posted by on Mar 13, 2013

Hi everyone, this time the cloze is about the declination of adjectives. The words are given, but you have to transform them the right way. Here´s an example: Ich habe ein sehr altes (alt) Motorrad. Got it? Use the comment field to write down your solutions. In a couple of days I will publish mine…

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German adjectives, part 2 – The weak declension Posted by on Jun 22, 2012

In my last post I began to talk about forming simple sentences with adjectives in German. You learned that there is no need to decline adjectives in so-called “to be” sentences or, in other words, when you put the adjective after the noun. Unfortunately, things are getting more complicated when you want to put the…

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What’s he/she/it like? – German adjectives, part 1 Posted by on Jun 21, 2012

Adjectives are those words that describe nouns. With them, your statements become more meaningful. So, do not hesitate and start to incorporate them in your sentences. In German, you can place an adjective on two positions in a sentences, either before a noun or after it. When you put an adjective after a noun, you…

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