ABSTRACT

Long trusted as the most comprehensive, up-to-date and user-friendly grammar available, HAMMER'S GERMAN GRAMMAR AND USAGE provides you with a complete guide to German as it is written and spoken today.

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 such as 'zertweeten' ('to tweet'), helping you to communicate in German as used by Germans today
-clarification on the spelling reform and current spellings of German, thus increasing your confidence while writing and reading in German.

Praised for its clear layout and lucid explanations, this new edition distinguishes the most common forms of usage, both formal and informal, and 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|32 pages

Nouns

chapter 2|15 pages

Case

chapter 3|14 pages

Personal pronouns

chapter 4|16 pages

The articles

chapter 5|41 pages

Other determiners and pronouns

chapter 6|18 pages

Adjectives

chapter 7|15 pages

Adverbs

chapter 8|11 pages

Comparison of adjectives and adverbs

chapter 9|13 pages

Numerals

chapter 10|28 pages

Modal particles

chapter 11|19 pages

Expressions of time

chapter 12|31 pages

Verbs: conjugation

chapter 13|29 pages

The infi nitive and the participles

chapter 14|14 pages

Uses of the tenses

chapter 15|15 pages

The passive

chapter 16|24 pages

Mood: the imperative and the subjunctive

chapter 17|17 pages

The modal auxiliaries

chapter 18|31 pages

Verbs: valency

chapter 19|22 pages

Conjunctions and subordination

chapter 20|44 pages

Prepositions

chapter 21|25 pages

Word order

chapter 22|26 pages

Word formation

chapter 23|16 pages

Spelling, pronunciation and punctuation