Dr. F. Ahn's Practical grammar of the German language1864 |
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accusative adjective adverbial adverbs already ancient beautiful become book bought brother Bruder called case children clause compound conditional conjunction continued country cousin dative declension declined definite definite article determinative diminutives employed English Exercise expressed father feminine first following form formed friend garden gehen gender genitive German give going good great groß hast Haus house imperfect indefinite infinitive interrogative iſt Kinder know letter little live long love loved make Mann masculine Menschen money muß neuter never nominative noun number numeral object past participle people Perf person place placed plur plural praise preceded predicate preposition present principal sentence pronoun radical vowel read reflective rich same ſein singular sister sometimes speak subject subordinate substantive syllable take the termination tence tenses termination thing think thou three thun time to-morrow town transitive unsere used usually verb viel want weiß wine wish words work year your
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Page iv - Traités internationaux, toutes contrefaçons, soit du texte, soit des gravures, ou toutes traductions faites au mépris de leurs droits. Le dépôt légal de cet Ouvrage a été fait à Paris...
Page cvii - English, nine sorts of words, or, as they are commonly called, PARTS OF SPEECH ; namely, the ARTICLE, the SUBSTANTIVE or NOUN, the ADJECTIVE, the PRONOUN, the VERB, the ADVERB, the PREPOSITION, the CONJUNCTION, and the INTERJECTION.
Page iv - Ils poursuivront , en vertu des lois , décrets et traités internationaux, toutes contrefaçons ou toutes traductions faites au mépris de leurs droits. Le dépôt légal de ce volume a été fait à Paris, au ministère de l'intérieur...
Page iv - Art/ et les éditeurs de cet ouvrage se réservent le droit de le traduire ou de le faire traduire en toutes les langues. Ils poursuivront, en vertu des lois, décrets et traités internationaux, toutes contrefaçons ou toutes traductions faites au mépris de leurs droits. Le dépôt légal de ce volume a été fait à Paris, au Ministère de...
Page 238 - Declension. These forms are used with nouns, and are declined in the singular like the indefinite article; in the plural, like biefer,etc The above forms, by assuming the full form of declension of three endings, become pronouns, and are used with out nouns: XatcuUne.
Page 27 - Foreign substantives of the feminine gender and those of the masculine and neuter genders not referred to in the above rules are declined regularly. Declension of proper names of persons. Proper names of persons are invariable, when they are preceded by the definite article except when in the genitive case they are preceded by an article and adjective and are followed by the word that governs the case. Examples: ©ie 6roberungen be§ grofjen ffart, but: be§ grofjen $arl8 6roberungen.
Page 371 - ... however free the gentlemen of White's may be from any imputation of this kind, it must be confessed, that suicide begins to prevail so generally, that it is the most gallant exploit by which our modern heroes choose to signalize themselves; and in this, indeed, they behave with uncommon prowess. From the days of Plato down to these, a suicide has always been compared to a soldier on guard deserting his post : but I should rather consider a set of these desperate men, who rush on certain death,...
Page 169 - ... ^"has no passive sense and the verb seldom takes a complement of result. The recipient of the action expressed by the verb may be placed either at the beginning or at the end of the sentence; (1) a (2) (3) Sentences with "£j£" generally indicate the passive voice.
Page 372 - Make no apologies, my child," said the old man; "to do good is a duty we owe to all our fellow creatures: take this, I wish it were more; but five pounds will relieve your distress, and you are welcome.
Page cvii - Plural ; three genders : the masculine, the femiuine and the neuter ; four cases : the Nominative, the Genitive, the Dative and the Accusative. The Nominative answers to the...