Eine kleine Nachtlektüre
A Little Book of Forms
Memory work is like the alphabet --
a good thing to get under your belt,
not because you intend to always use the whole thing in predictable
order
but because learning it systematically
makes it easier to use
spontaneously,
in random order.
NOUN
English version
of a noun paradigm
The Noun (the Porsche)
The Adjective Noun
(the red Porsche)
A Noun (a Porsche)
An ADJ Noun (a
red Porsche)
ADJ Noun (red Porsches)
VERB
Regular verb. How most verbs behave. The verb has the
same vowel in all its forms.
Reflexive
(subject and object
are the same person or thing)
Simple past (Imperfekt)
Past
perfect (Plusquamperfekt)
An entire paradigm (all possible forms)
SOME WAYS TO MEMORIZE
Here are some exercises designed to make your
study of German easier. They arose in response to your questions,
and are intended to make a short story long.