dennoch, folglich, hingegen: the connectors of written German
CEFR B2 · part 1
edumaterial's parts within the level. The European framework does not subdivide them.
The passive in the past and with modals: wurde gebaut, muss gemacht werdenTaking the passive into the tenses that were missing. In the Präteritum only werden…Die Tür wird geöffnet or ist geöffnet: the action and the stateTelling apart two sentences that look alike and mean different things. Die Tür wird…Er sagte, er sei krank: the Konjunktiv I of the newspapersReporting what somebody else said without making it yours. German has a verb form just…Er muss krank sein: when the modal is not an order but a guessThe modals' second job, the one the dictionary does not mention. Er muss krank sein is…Der gestern von uns gekaufte Tisch: a whole clause wedged inside the articleReading —and taking apart— the construction that makes German technical prose look…bestehen aus, auf or in: when the preposition changes the meaningThe advanced tier of prepositional verbs: the ones with SEVERAL prepositions that mean…The rule, in three lines
The connectors that make a text read as if an adult wrote it. dennoch for concession, folglich and somit for consequence, hingegen and dagegen for contrast, zudem and überdies for addition, allerdings for qualification. They are all adverbs: they fill the first slot and leave the verb in second position.
The usual slip. Treating them as subordinators and sending the verb to the end, the same slip trotzdem produced. They are adverbs, and the verb stays second. The other mistake is register, and no corrector catches it: folglich in a text to a friend reads like a government circular, where what you actually say is also.
Why it catches you out. English has «nevertheless», «consequently», «by contrast», «moreover», and keeps them formal in the same way. It also keeps the subject in front —«nevertheless he came»— which is exactly the word order German forbids here.