ZU + INFINITIVE CLAUSES. A Special Kind of GERMAN SENTENCE
A sentence HAS to have THESE TWO THINGS: a VERB and a subject, or else it’s not a sentence. That’s what we’ve been saying, isn’t it. However, today we’re going to bend the rules a bit. Look a pretty much any sentence and you’ll see that it’s got a subject and a verb, and this makes sense because how else can you say that someone or something is doing something without these a subject and a verb? Well, you’ve got to know the rules before you can bend them or even BREAK them with any real confidence. Of course, there are some rules we’re not going to bend. We’ll have trouble constructing a sentence without a verb. And in some situations, you might even have more than one verb, but today, I want to look at one common way of using sentences without a SUBJECT, or at least an explicit subject. Confused? Let me show you what I mean.
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We aim to simplify the German language by providing guidelines for language learning. There are of course lots of ways of explaining the same thing. We recommend listening to as many explanations as you can until you find one that makes sense to you. Here, we try to keep vocab simple and to introduce ideas and grammatical structures in a logical way, building on what we have covered in previous weeks.
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We're currently in Austria (in der Steiermark), but we’ve been living in Australia on and off since 2000. Together with my Austrian wife, Christine, and our daughter, we are a German-speaking family. Pronunciation varies throughout the German-speaking world, much as it does in the English-speaking world. My English usage is a mixture of Australian, British and Irish usage; my German is influenced by central German origins [Bonn] and the overwhelming influence of my Austrian wife :)
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Quite literally the best video on Infinitiv+zu I’ve ever seen. So we’ll explained. Thank you for this.
@bausteine
9 ай бұрын
Wow, thanks! I’m glad it was useful for you! Alles Gute BB
Thank you for this enlightening video! Best explanation of 'zu' so far on the internet (if I may be that confident). I also just wanted to find out if the use of 'um', in this sense, is always followed by the accusative.
@bausteine
9 ай бұрын
Thank you so much - I’m glad it made sense for you. Alles Gute BB
Thank you for this video. Your explenation eased alot of confusions in my head about "zu". Danke schön !
@bausteine
11 ай бұрын
Gerne! I‘m pleased you found it useful! Alles Gute BB
Very well explained
@bausteine
3 ай бұрын
Thanks Frosty :) Glad it was useful. Alles Gute BB
Wunderbare Lektion wie immer!
@bausteine
11 ай бұрын
Danke Vee!! Es freut mich, dass es Ihnen gefallen hat! Alles Gute BB
Teaching made soo fun n simple..Thank you Prof
@bausteine
11 ай бұрын
Thank you John!! Glad you liked it. Alles Gute BB
great video by a great teacher like always
@bausteine
11 ай бұрын
Danke!! 🙏 😀
Sehr interessant
@bausteine
11 ай бұрын
Danke, das freut mich!
Ich versuchte die Bücher ein paar mal zu kaufen, aber es auf iPad das nicht arbeiten
@bausteine
11 ай бұрын
Hi Chuck, that’s odd. It’s worked for me on iPhone, so you’d think it would work ok on iPad which is essentially the same? There are other links there too (in USD) via Spring that might work better. Might be worth a try, if you’re still looking to get the books. Alles Gute BB
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Hi Herr Billy. The QR code for spoken texts leads to an expired link
@bausteine
11 ай бұрын
Hi JM- this QR code is not an active QR code. The audio of the spoken texts can be accessed via the QR codes next to each text, or exercise. The one you are referring to is just an example of what a QR code looks like. Sorry for any confusion Alles Gute BB
@HeyJuuu
11 ай бұрын
@@bausteine gotcha! Thank you.
I'm a German teacher & I don't know of any rule that's breaking really. Also, I think it's better to refer to "sets of words" rather than multiple sentences within 1 sentence, as I think the whole thing is just 1 sentence, from an English perspective. I explain a main set of words has the conjugated verb as the 2nd element, whereas a lesser set of words, or "Nebensatz" has the conjugated verb at the end of the set of words - aka at the end of the "clause" ...
@bausteine
11 ай бұрын
Hallo! Danke für den Kommentar! Yes, of course, we’re not breaking any real rules, except for the ones that we have been talking about in this series: that a sentence has to have a subject and a verb. And you are right, the whole thing is one sentence, made up of 2 clauses. However, in any normal ‚Satz‘ - whether a Hauptsatz or a Nebensatz, there is a subject. Here there isn’t one, so a bit different to other one‘s we- in this course-have come across. Alles Gute BB
@Mayaadyby.
11 ай бұрын
Each teacher has a different way of teaching and that's what makes them different for students. The way he teaches is so unique & smart with innovative techniques which I really like and I've learned in this way much better.