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)

SENTENCE

Landkarte

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.
 

            # What they are / how to do them
            #  Why do them?
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