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I offer German language lessons for A1, A2, B1, B2 level and they include everything you need: grammar, speaking, listening, reading, writing and for some fun: games and role plays :) I was born and lived in Switzerland and grew up in a bilingual family, because of that I speak German, Swiss German, Croatian and English :) Hallo :) I'm a German language teacher with a Bachelor and Master degree in German and with many years of teaching experience. The double infinitive is therefore always used with a past form of a modal verb. But with the past participle, we always use the double infinitive. The verbs you can find in the table above, can be used alone or in a verb group. The double infinitive with the past participle With verbs of motion (which don't hold an infinitive with 'zu'): Wir haben sie Volleyball spielen sehen.With verbs that do not hold the infinitive with zu: Wir werden ein neues Handy kaufen müssen.‍ Remember: VERB ALWAYS TAKES THE SECOND POSITION. As clarified in the previous step, you can play with the subject and the expression of time in the sentence while keeping the verb in the second position, but everything else (expression of cause, modality, and place) has its own place. Max is traveling to Rome by train for an exhibition next week.Ĭould every element take any position just as explained in the previous section? It turns out that the German language has a precise rule for structuring parts of speech. We covered the basic word order, but what if we want to add more detail to our sentences? Let’s say we want to say:

Boss Level : Expressing more details with “TeKaMoLo” Heute gehe ich zum Arzt.Īll three are grammatically correct and you’d use one or the other depending on what you want to emphasize: that YOU are going to see a doctor, that you’re going to see a DOCTOR, or that it’s TODAY that you are going to see a doctor. Unlike many languages, German language word order can be quite flexible except for one important rule: the verb is always in the second position and acts as a glue between the parts of speech:Īll three sentences mean that you're are going to see a doctor. Where are we going next week? - Wohin fahren wir nächste Woche? Level 4. When will you come to Germany? - Wann kommst du nach Deutschland? Why are you looking for an apartment? - Warum suchen Sie eine Wohnung? What are you doing? - Was machen Sie gerade?