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  2. German adverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    Unlike English, the German language distinguishes adverbs which qualify verbs or adjectives from those which qualify whole sentences. For the latter case, many German adjectives form a special adverb form ending in -erweise, e.g. glücklicherweise "luckily", traurigerweise "sadly" (from Weise = way, manner).

  3. German sentence structure - Wikipedia

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    German sentence structure is the structure to which the German language adheres. German is an OV (Object-Verb) language. [ 1 ] Additionally, German, like all west Germanic languages except English, [ note 1 ] uses V2 word order , though only in independent clauses.

  4. German grammar - Wikipedia

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    The grammar of the German language is quite similar to that of the other Germanic languages.Although some features of German grammar, such as the formation of some of the verb forms, resemble those of English, German grammar differs from that of English in that it has, among other things, cases and gender in nouns and a strict verb-second word order in main clauses.

  5. German verbs - Wikipedia

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    German verbs may be classified as either weak, with a dental consonant inflection, or strong, showing a vowel gradation ().Both of these are regular systems. Most verbs of both types are regular, though various subgroups and anomalies do arise; however, textbooks for learners often class all strong verbs as irregular.

  6. German declension - Wikipedia

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    German declension is the paradigm that German uses to define all the ways articles, adjectives and sometimes nouns can change their form to reflect their role in the sentence: subject, object, etc. Declension allows speakers to mark a difference between subjects, direct objects, indirect objects and possessives by changing the form of the word—and/or its associated article—instead of ...

  7. Adverb - Wikipedia

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    In German the term Adverb is defined differently from its use in the English language. German adverbs form a group of uninflectable words (though a few can be compared). An English adverb which is derived from an adjective is arranged in German under the adjectives with adverbial use in the sentence. The others are also called adverbs in the ...

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  9. Time–manner–place - Wikipedia

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    In linguistic typology, time–manner–place is a sentence structure that defines the order of adpositional phrases and adverbs in a sentence: "yesterday", "by car", "to the store". Japanese, Afrikaans, [1] Dutch, [2] [3] Mandarin, and German [4] use this structure. An example of this appositional ordering in German is: