That may be the case, but the OP did ask specifically about the grammar used in the phrases from module Module I think one of the weaknesses on the Rocket course is that it sometimes uses grammar that is quite difficult for a beginner to understand without explaining it. I have often had to resort to other resources to puzzle out phrases.
This is compounded by the fact the tutors are very slow to respond to questions if they respond at all. Badger October 7, If you want a solid understanding of German grammar you can use Babbel.
I subscribe to Babbel and they push the grammar sometimes excessively I think. It makes learning German, for me, difficult because they seem obsessed with rules. You will however learn why a word such as "wie" is used when our English speaking minds would want to use "was". Hope this helps. Richard October 8, Thanks for the advice. I'll take a look at Babbel to see if it helps me. Fred-C14 October 31, Just going through the forums and I'd wondered about the initial question on this thread myself while redoing all the early units.
Still unclear about how I would choose which one to use or whether it would make that much difference in a practical conversation provided that I got the singular or plural bit right.
Bit like the difference between sollen and sollten in the present tense. You Rock : Vielen Dank. You are a great teacher with great wisdom. I need to digest this more before I come up with questions.
I have a great relieve right now. I wish to connect with your webmail and other german materia if available. Good day. Can I use these words interchangeably? Did you read my post on this above? You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account.
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Fred says:. April 23, at pm. Dawn says:. April 1, at am. Adrian says:. March 27, at am. Briguy says:. May 2, at am. Teachers are not that helpful at drilling things into your mind, but they do a great and usually very pleasant job of correcting you which is very valuable. So helpful…. My husband is a native German speaker from Austria and I had to ask him this very question last night. I am guessing this is a question that many people have so I think it is great that you have provided an explanantion that takes the worry out of which word to use!
I did not get the answer. I apologize for the lack of information in the previous response. I found this response to the same question on a different site, so I will include it here with a linked reference for credit to the author who appears to be writing a new German Grammar book :. So… every verb in German has its own form for it… every verb. Here are some examples:. However, for the vast majority of verbs the real past form and the conditional form look alike… just as in English by the way:.
That is a problem because it is unclear. So German has a second way to build the conditional 2 and that way uses the helper verb werden and puts that into conditional while it takes the original verb as an infinitive:. Even for the ones that have a unique form for conditional of their own:. The decision which one is used depend on what the majority does and it is pretty much the same pattern as for the decision whether to use the spoken past or the written past.
For helper verb, modals and the most common normal verb, that do have a unique form verbs like sehen, gehen, nehmen, kommen and so on people tend to use the real conditional. It just sounds weird. But for many verbs both versions are being used. And now how does it work in past tense… again an example in English so we know what we are talking about:. Unlike some other language, German verbs have NO own form for that… thank god.
So we have to use a helper verb to get the idea across. And the helper just so happens to be the one you would use for the spoken past… haben or sein.
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