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The same thing said to a friend and said in a reportChoosing between two forms that are both correct. Spoken German uses weil with the verb…The German that turns verbs into nounsTurning a verb clause into a noun phrase and back, which is what separates school German…Three-storey sentences: how every verb gets closedWriting and above all READING the long German sentence, the one with a clause inside a…Words that look like yours and are not, and the ones that travel in pairsThe two things that make a correct text sound wrong. False friends —Gymnasium is not a…Daumen drücken, ins Wasser fallen: the bits that do not translateThe expressions a German uses without thinking and that you cannot work out: die Daumen…Condensing without changing meaningSummarise while preserving conditions, scope, source and certainty.
Another oneKeep practising: GermanThe rule, in three lines
Negating a reason does not negate the event; denying necessity does not prove impossibility. Reconstruct the full scope.
The usual slip. Move negation onto the event or strengthen its logical force.
Why it catches you out. When reformulating, preserve subjects, scope and certainty; justify each change against the context.
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- The same thing said to a friend and said in a reportChoosing between two forms that are both correct. Spoken German uses weil with the verb…
- The German that turns verbs into nounsTurning a verb clause into a noun phrase and back, which is what separates school German…
- Three-storey sentences: how every verb gets closedWriting and above all READING the long German sentence, the one with a clause inside a…