ABSTRACT

Long trusted as the most comprehensive, up-to-date and user-friendly grammar available, Hammer’s German Grammar provides you with a complete guide to German as it is written and spoken today.

In a new layout to enable better referencing, this new edition includes:

  • concise descriptions of the main grammatical phenomena of German and their use
  • examples of grammar taken from contemporary German, helping you to understand the underlying grammatical principles more quickly
  • invaluable guidance on pronunciation and the German accent
  • discussion of new words from English roots, helping you to communicate in German as Germans do today
  • clarification on the spelling reform and current spellings of German, thus increasing your confidence while writing and reading in German.

Praised for its lucid explanations, this new edition distinguishes the most common forms of usage, both formal and informal. Hammer’s German Grammar also offers you a combination of reference grammar and manual of current usage that you will find invaluable, whether a student or a teacher, at intermediate or advanced level.

chapter 1|40 pages

Nouns

chapter 2|18 pages

Case

chapter 3|16 pages

Personal pronouns

chapter 4|19 pages

The articles

chapter 5|47 pages

Other determiners and pronouns

chapter 6|28 pages

Adjectives

chapter 7|25 pages

Adverbs

chapter 8|20 pages

Numerals

chapter 9|29 pages

Modal particles

chapter 10|37 pages

Verbs: conjugation

chapter 12|14 pages

The tenses

chapter 13|16 pages

The passive

chapter 14|25 pages

Mood: the imperative and the subjunctive

chapter 15|19 pages

The modal auxiliaries

chapter 16|34 pages

Verbs: valency

chapter 17|25 pages

Conjunctions and subordination

chapter 18|53 pages

Prepositions

chapter 19|29 pages

Word order

chapter 20|28 pages

Word formation527 Methods of word formation

chapter 21|17 pages

Spelling, pronunciation and punctuation