German Notes 01

 I make sporadic notes into a dead tree, and intermittently write them up here.

Script and Alphabet

British 26 plus ß ("eszett" or "Schafer's S" ; deprecated since ~1980s review of orthography). 

Vowels are pronounced long if followed by a single consonant, or "h" but long if followed by two consonants or doubled. THAT MAKES NO SENSE, go back and check!

O, U, and A can take umlauts (e-umlaut and i-umlaut are for spoofs and rock bands).

Prounciation

Pile of tables and English equivalents.

Word order

The "verb on the 3rd page problem" :

[Pronoun clause] [Verb+conjugation] [object noun clause] ge-/ geg- [verb root]

Genders

Three genders - masculine, feminine, neuter.

Articles

Setting             ENGLISH   DE(m)  DE(f)    DE(n)
Indefinite article  a         ein    eine     einen
Definite article    the       der    die      das
Dative Indef        ???                          ?
Dative Def                   ?
...

Verb Conjugation

Several types of regular verb - I need to fill the table, then do the regulars
ab
Setting             ENGLISH   DE(m)  DE(f)    DE(n)
1st person singular I         Ich    Ich      Ich
2nd person singular You       ?      ?        ?
3rd person singular He/She/It Er     Sie      ?
1st person plural   We        Wir
2nd person plural   You       Du
3rd person plural   They/ One


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Noun List

See "genders above to get gender from article.

Der Strom  = river  =  electricity