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About Kevin Johnson
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I grew up and live in Germany, so I can answer questions on the German language, culture, current events, politics and style. My field of work is science, so I will also be able to answer questions regarding technical vocabulary. I will not do translations of more than approx. half a page (typewritten), though.

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I lived all my life in Germany. I have a strong lifelong interest in languages.

 
   

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Topic: German Language



Expert: Kevin Johnson
Date: 6/26/2008
Subject: german sentences

Question
I know u might have been asked this question before. But i just don't get how to make sentences in german. Its really confusing to me. Please help!
Thank you so much!
Bri

Answer
Hello Brianna,

Your question is very general in nature and would require a whole textbook on German grammar to answer. So let me give you two links for some quick reading material:
General introduction to German grammar:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_grammar
Specific information on sentence structure:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_sentence_structure

In my experience, English speakers have no problems with simple statement sentences with single verbs, since there the word order is essentially the same in German as in English (subject verb object). It gets tougher with compound verbs (which are split in German sentences), and also with subordinate clauses and questions (in which the word order is different from English). Give special attention to these points when reading the above link.

If you still have open questions on more specific problems, just get back to me.

Peace,
 Kevin


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