German GrammarPod

By Laura

What's German GrammarPod about?

German GrammarPod is a podcast about German grammar for people learning the German language.

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Adjectival nouns

08.19.2012

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German GrammarPod episodes:

08.19.2012 Adjectival nouns Please click here to listen to the adjectival nouns podcast directly on your computer.
10.24.2011 Reported Speech and Konjunktiv I To listen to this podcast directly on your computer, please click here.
07.17.2011 Commands To listen to this podcast directly on your computer, please click here.
05.08.2011 Reciprocal Verbs and Einander To listen to this podcast directly on your computer, please click here.
04.01.2011 Reflexive Verbs To listen to this podcast on your computer, please click here.
03.27.2011 Reflexive Pronouns To listen to this podcast directly on your computer, click here.
11.14.2010 Adjectives and Adjectival Endings To listen to this podcast directly on your computer click here.
07.24.2010 How to Use a Dictionary To listen to this podcast directly on you computer, click here.
04.05.2010 General Tips & Tricks This podcast gives you a wide range of tips and tricks for learning a language. It focuses on German, but these tips and tricks could be applied to learning any language. To listen to this podcast on your computer, click ...
01.09.2010 Relative Pronouns3 To listen to this podcast directly on your computer, click here.
08.22.2009 Relative Pronouns 2 This podcast covers relative pronouns after prepositions and some other special cases. To listen to this podcast directly on your computer, click here.
05.31.2009 Relative Pronouns To listen to this podcase directly on you computer, click here.
04.19.2009 The Conditional - Part 2 This episode is about more of the really practical stuff you need to know about the conditional. To listen to the episode directly on your computer, click here.
02.01.2009 The Conditional and Umlauts The conditional basically means sentences with a would. For instance, if I were rich, I would buy a house. To download this podcast directly on your computer, click here.
11.30.2008 Word Order - Multi-Clause Sentences To listen to this podcast on your computer, click here.
07.13.2008 Word Order - Exceptions to the Standard Main Clause Word order has a highly complex set of rules in any language. So many, that I'm not convinced anyone has ever managed to write them all down for any given language. For pretty well every rule there is an exception, ...
04.06.2008 Word Order in a Standard Main Clause German word order in a completely standard, neutral main clause is a follows: * nominative subject, * conjugated verb, * accusative then dative pronoun, * nouns with definite determiners, in the order dative, accusative * most adverbials * nicht – ...
01.27.2008 The Pluperfect The pluperfect is the ich hatte es getan or I had done tense. You make the pluperfect in German by taking the perfect tense (the ich habe es getan tense) and changing the auxiliary verb (the habe or the bin ...
12.31.2007 The Simple Past The simple past - also known as the preterite or the imperfect tense - is equivalent in form to the English I did form (ich tat es). The way that regular verbs form their simple past is by a or ...
11.24.2007 When to Use the Perfect Tense This podcast is about when to use the perfect tense. The perfect tense is the ich habe es getan tense and corresponds in form to the I have done it tense in English. But the rules on when you use ...
10.22.2007 Past Tenses: How to Use The Perfect The perfect tense is one of three German past tense forms. It's also the one that's most commonly used in spoken German, so very useful to learn. The perfect tense is a compound tense. This means it uses two verbs: ...
09.30.2007 The future tense & the verb werden Hallo all, It's been longer than I intended yet again, but I've finally managed to finish another episode of German GrammarPod. This episode is about the future tense and also about the verb werden in general. The future tense is ...
08.12.2007 The present tense The present tense is pretty simple in German: there's only one. So where English has to choose between Sarah is walking to work and Sarah walks to work, German has only Sarah geht zu Fuß zur Arbeit. However, whereas English ...
06.30.2007 Cases: The Genitive Case The genitive case is used to indicate possession, like of or apostrophe-s ('s) does in English. However, apart from in formal, written texts (and in its version of adding 's, which is just to add an s to the end ...
05.06.2007 The Dative Case The dative case is used for the indirect object (that's the noun or pronoun which is impacted indirectly by the action, as opposed to the one to which the action is done directly). The classic example is he gives me ...
03.18.2007 The Accusative Case The accusative case is used for the direct object (that's the noun or pronoun to which an action is done). It's like the shark in Peter ate the shark where shark is the noun that gets eaten. It also follows ...
02.25.2007 Cases: The Nominative Case This podcast is about cases, which are a way of showing what role the different words are playing in a sentence. German has four cases: NominativeAccusativeDativeGentitiveThis podcast describes how cases work in general, then goes on to look at the ...
01.11.2007 The Gender Podcast I finally have my first podcast up and running. You wouldn't believe how complicated publishing podcasts is, and I thought the long bit was going to be writing the podcast :) Anyway, I'm all up and running now, so welcome ...

German GrammarPod

What's German GrammarPod about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

German GrammarPod episodes:

Adjectival nouns

Reported Speech and Konjunktiv I

Commands

Reciprocal Verbs and Einander

Reflexive Verbs

Reflexive Pronouns

Adjectives and Adjectival Endings

How to Use a Dictionary

General Tips & Tricks

Relative Pronouns3

Relative Pronouns 2

Relative Pronouns

The Conditional - Part 2

The Conditional and Umlauts

Word Order - Multi-Clause Sentences

Word Order - Exceptions to the Standard Main Clause

Word Order in a Standard Main Clause

The Pluperfect

The Simple Past

When to Use the Perfect Tense

Past Tenses: How to Use The Perfect

The future tense & the verb werden

The present tense

Cases: The Genitive Case

The Dative Case

The Accusative Case

Cases: The Nominative Case

The Gender Podcast