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| nightale Newbie Canada Joined 5116 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English | Message 1 of 6 23 November 2010 at 9:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hello, I really need help with sentences using some separable verbs. I know you always need to put the prefix at the end of the sentence, but I am not sure with the correct order of the adverbs in these sentences.
Here are some sentences I made for an assignement. Can you help me with what's wrong and what's right? I had to make sentences, no restrictions, as long as I used the verb in parenthesis. Wann fängt der Kurs an? (anfangen) Sie steht um acht Uhr dreißig auf. (aufstehen) Wir kaufen immer samstags ein. (einkaufen) Sie hören mit der Arbeit freitags um 3 Uhr auf. (aufhören) Er sieht nicht heute fern. (fernsehen) Wann findet das Konzert im Stadttheater statt? (stattfinden) Ihr bereitet immer das Frühstück am Wochenende vor.(vorbereiten) Ich komme gern Morgen mit. (mitkommen) Der Zug fährt gerade in Paris ein. (einfahren) Richtest du schöne Grüße von uns aus? (ausrichten) Wir kommen pünktlich in London an. (ankommen) Warum ruft Eva nicht uns heute Abend an? (anrufen) I hope you guys can help me, I am really motivated in learning German, but it is my third language and I find it very hard. Thanks for your help! Max Edited by nightale on 23 November 2010 at 9:09pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lingoleng Senior Member Germany Joined 5299 days ago 605 posts - 1290 votes  | Message 2 of 6 23 November 2010 at 11:12pm | IP Logged | ||
Looks like you are a natural born ... German, my congratulations. Just some remarks regarding the sentences above: -Er sieht nicht heute fern. Means: Maybe tomorrow, but not today. What you wanted may be: Er sieht heute nicht fern. Means: He does not do it. -Ihr bereitet immer das Frühstück am Wochenende vor. Means: Always the breakfast at the weekend. Never the one on Monday. Neutral: Ihr bereitet das Frühstück am Wochenende immer vor. Means: You always do it. -Ich komme gern morgen mit. Means: Not today, but yes, tomorrow I'll be pleased to come with you. Neutral: Ich komme morgen gerne mit. Means: I'll love doing it. -Warum ruft Eva nicht uns heute Abend an? Means: Why not us, but these silly neighbours? Neutral: Warum ruft Eva uns heute Abend nicht an? Means: Why doesn't she do it? (There are additional matters of intonation and stress, but I hope this is enough for now; and I don't have a very clear picture of the regularities myself, don't ask ...) Edited by lingoleng on 23 November 2010 at 11:14pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| jae Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5665 days ago 206 posts - 239 votes Speaks: English*, German, Latin Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, French | Message 3 of 6 24 November 2010 at 4:12am | IP Logged | ||
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The basic rule to follow for sentence order is TMP -- time, manner, place.
So, for example, a sentence with all three: Ich fahre um 3 Uhr mittags (T) mit der Bahn (M) in die Stadt (P). The three questions you have to ask yourself are: 1) When am I going? um 3 Uhr mittags 2) In what manner am I going? mit der Bahn 3) To what place am I going? in die Stadt If you don't understand this, check out google (just google 'German time, manner, place'). Even wikipedia has a good page on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Manner_Place Hope that helps! Viel Glück! Edited by jae on 24 November 2010 at 4:13am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| nightale Newbie Canada Joined 5116 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English | Message 4 of 6 24 November 2010 at 4:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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Many thanks to both of you. This is very helpful. Separable verbs are very hard for me to understand.
Never heard of TMP before, I think it's a great logical structure to use. Thanks for the tips. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| anatoly.borodin Bilingual Tetraglot Newbie GermanyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5114 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: Russian*, Ukrainian*, English, GermanC1 Studies: Italian, Danish, French, Modern Hebrew, Swedish | Message 5 of 6 25 November 2010 at 9:42am | IP Logged | ||
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Pronouns stand before the TMP usually:
Ich habe gestern dem Lehrer ein Buch geschenkt. Ich habe ihm gestern ein Buch geschenkt. Ich habe es gestern dem Lehrer geschenkt. Ich habe es ihm gestern geschenkt. or Ich habe ihm es gestern geschenkt. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| pobere Triglot Groupie Germany language-learning-lo Joined 5357 days ago 83 posts - 114 votes Speaks: Romanian*, German, English | Message 6 of 6 25 November 2010 at 10:57am | IP Logged | ||
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You will find here all you need: Satzstellung mit Objekten und adverbialen Angaben 1 person has voted this message useful |
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