Hammer’s German Grammar And Usage

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By (author) Durrell Martin

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Long trusted as the most comprehensive, up-to-date and user-friendly grammar available, Hammer’s German Grammar and Usage provides you with a complete guide to German as it is written and spoken today. Praised for its lucid explanations, this new edition explains and clearly distinguishes formal and informal spoken and written usage.

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Long trusted as the most comprehensive, up-to-date and user-friendly grammar available, Hammer’s German Grammar and Usage provides you with a complete guide to German as it is written and spoken today.

In a revised layout to improve ease of consultation, this new edition includes:

• concise s of the main grammatical phenomena of German and their use
• completely reorganized tables of grammatical features
• examples of grammar taken from contemporary German, helping you to understand the underlying grammatical principles more quickly
• invaluable guidance on pronunciation and word stress
• discussion of new words from English roots, helping you to communicate in German as Germans do today
• clarification on current spellings of German with full detail on the most recent revisions to the rules
• list of useful internet resources for students, teachers and all learners of German

Praised for its lucid explanations, this new edition explains and clearly distinguishes formal and informal spoken and written usage. Hammer’s German Grammar offers you a combination of reference grammar and manual of current usage that you will find invaluable, whether a student or a teacher, at intermediate or advanced level.

Table of contents:

Contents

List of tables

Abbreviations and points for the user

Preface to the seventh edition

Acknowledgements

The phonetic alphabet

1 Nouns

1.1 Noun gender

1.2 Noun plurals

1.3 The declension of nouns to show case

2 Case

2.1 The nominative case

2.2 The accusative case

2.3 The genitive case

2.4 Genitive case or von?

2.5 The dative case

2.6 Apposition

2.7 Measurement phrases: genitive, von or apposition?

3 Personal pronouns

3.1 The forms of the personal pronouns

3.2 Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns

3.3 Pronouns of address: du, ihr and Sie

3.4 Third person pronouns

3.5 The prepositional adverb

3.6 The pronoun es

4 The articles

4.1 The declension of the articles

4.2 The definite article with abstract and similar nouns

4.3 The use of articles in generalizations

4.4 Articles with geographical and other proper names

4.5 The use of articles in time expressions

4.6 Definite article or possessive?

4.7 Other uses of the definite article

4.8 The ‘zero article’

4.9 Article use with phrasal verbs

4.10 Article use with prepositions

5 Other determiners and pronouns

5.1 Demonstratives

5.2 Possessives

5.3 Interrogatives

5.4 Relative pronouns

5.5 Indefinites, quantifiers and other determiners and pronouns

6 Adjectives

6.1 Declension and use of adjectives

6.2 Adjectives used as nouns

6.3 Cases with adjectives

6.4 Adjectives with prepositions

6.5 Comparison of adjectives

7 Adverbs

7.1 Adverbs of place

7.2 Adverbs of direction: hin and her

7.3 Adverbs of time

7.4 Adverbs of manner, viewpoint, attitude and reason

7.5 Adverbs of degree

7.6 Interrogative adverbs

7.7 Comparison of adverbs

8 Numerals

8.1 Cardinal numbers

8.2 Ordinal numbers

8.3 Fr