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German has sentence tags, hasn’t it? – Tags in German Posted by on Oct 15, 2021

Tags in German

English is a bit (in)famous for its use of sentence tags, those little endings of sentences to indicate that you are looking for agreement or confirmation. It’s nice, isn’t it? German, like many other languages, doesn’t have such tags. But we do ask for confirmation like this, too, of course! So, how does German do…

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Key: Easy ways to ask questions in German – And how to answer them Posted by on May 24, 2012

In my last post I told you how you can form yes/no-questions easily in German. In order to give you the chance to practice your German I gave you an exercise of which I would like to give you the key now. In addition to the correct questions I also provide the positive and negative…

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