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Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
1 Pronunciation and Cognates
The Alphabet
Step 1: Consonants
Step 2: Vowels
Letter Combinations
Consonants
Vowels
Step 3: Cognates
2 Gender and heißen
German Gender
Step 1: Masculine
Step 2: Feminine
Step 3: Neuter
Heißen
3 Nominative Pronouns, der-Words, and the Verb sein
German Personal Pronouns
Step 1: Third Person Pronouns and Gender
Step 2: Der-Words
The Verb sein
4 Ein-Words, haben, and the Present Tense
Ein-Words
Kein
Step 1: Possessive Adjectives
Step 2: The Verb haben
Present Tense
5 Irregular Present Tense and werden
Irregular Present Tense
Step 1: Irregularities Formed with an Umlaut
Step 2: Irregularities Formed with a Shift from -e- to -i-
Step 3: Irregularities Formed with a Shift from -e- to -ie-
Conjugation of werden
The Impersonal es
6 Accusative Case: Direct Objects and Prepositions
Accusative Case
Step 1: Direct Object Nouns
Step 2: Direct Object Pronouns
Step 3: Prepositions
Masculine Plurals
Mastery Check 1
7 Regular Past Tense and Interrogative Words
The Past Tense
Step 1: The Past Tense Suffix -te
Step 2: Adverbs for the Past Tense
Forming Questions
Step 3: Feminine Plurals
8 Irregular Past Tense and Neuter Plurals
Irregular Past Tense
Step 1: German Irregular Past Tense
Step 2: Numbers, the Year, and Age
Using fragen
Neuter Plurals
9 Dative Case and More Irregular Past Tense
Dative Case
Step 1: Dative Case in German
Haben, sein, werden in the Past Tense
Step 2: Wissen and kennen
10 Dative Expressions and Conjunctions aber, oder, und, and sondern
The Dative Case
Step 1: More Dative Verbs and Dative Expressions
Conjunctions
Step 2: Können und müssen
11 Regular Present Perfect Tense
The Present Perfect Tense
Step 1: Haben and Regular Past Participles
Step 2: Sein and the Present Perfect Tense
Ordinal Numbers and Prefixes
Step 3: Ordinal Numbers
Step 4: Inseparable Prefixes
12 Adjective Endings and Separable Prefixes
Adjectives
Step 1: Adjective Endings
Nominative Case Adjectives
Accusative Case Adjectives
Step 2: Separable Prefixes
13 Irregular Present Perfect Tense and Prefixes
The Irregular Present Perfect Tense
Step 1: German Irregular Past Participles
Step 2: Haben, sein, werden, sterben
Step 3: Prefixes
Mastery Check 2
14 Genitive Case and Antonyms
Genitive Case
Step 1: German Possessives
Step 2: Containers
Step 3: Genitive Prepositions
Antonyms
Step 4: Opposites in German
Gehen
Step 5: Gehen and Infinitives
15 Future Tense and Modal Auxiliaries
The Future Tense
Step 1: German Future Tense
Modal Auxiliaries
Step 2: German Modal Auxiliaries
16 Dependent Clauses and Conjunctions
Dependent Clauses
Step 1: German Clauses
Subordinating Conjunctions
Step 2: Dass and ob
17 Dative-Accusative Prepositions
Prepositions with More Than One Function
Step 1: Dative Case
Step 2: Inanimate Pronouns
Step 3: Accusative Case
Geography
Step 4: Die Welt (The World)
18 Comparative and Superlative
Comparative
Step 1: German Comparative Adverbs and Adjectives
Step 2: Irregular Comparatives
Superlative
Step 3: German Superlative Adverbs and Adjectives
Step 4: Irregular Superlatives
19 Imperatives and Double Infinitives
Commands
Step 1: The German Imperative
Double Infinitives
Step 2: Present Perfect and Future Tenses
Step 3: Helfen, hören, lassen, and sehen
20 Using All the Cases and All the Tenses
Cases and Declensions
Step 1: German Declensions of Nouns and Pronouns
Tenses
Step 2: Varieties in the German Tenses
Mastery Check 3
Appendix A: Fraktur Alphabet (1600–1940)
Appendix B: The Principal Parts of Irregular Verbs
Answer Key
