The Practical German Grammar (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ...in en; but in a few instances in ein and era. 2d., The German infinitive is to be placed at the end of a phrase, whether preceded by JU or not, and consequently the infinitive, preceding the past participle in English, follows it in German. 3d., When two or more infinitives, depending on each other, follow one another, the last in English is the first in German. 4th., The infinitive is never preceded by JU, if accompanied by one of the seven auxiliary verbs of mood, or by one of the following verbs, viz.: ftthlen, to feel. lehrett, to teach. bcifjert, to desire, to bid. lewen, to learn. belfert, to help, assist. beit, to see; boren, to hear. they retain, like the auxiliary verbs of mood, the form of the infinitive in the compound tenses, if preceded by another infinitive. The infinitive also rejects the //JU," if accompanied by one of the following verbs, in particular phrases--but they take the past participle in the compound tenses--viz.: bleiben, to remain, to con-babett, to have linue. legeit, to lay. fabren, to drive (in a car-Itegcn, to lie. riage). macfyeit, to make, to do. ftnben, to find. retten, to ride (on horseback). gehert, to go. tfyltlt, to do. 5th., In all other cases u" precedes the infinitive, and may, if relating to a noun, be formed into an adjective by adding b (be), to it. 6th., All the infinitives of the German language may be employed as substantives (of the neuter gender); in the English language the participle present is generally used for it. Exercise. Will you lend my brother twenty-five dollars? I am not able to lend him so much. Sir, may I ask you where Mr. Turner lives? Are we allowed to pay him a visit? I saw him weep. Has she seen him go to church? We have not seen him go to church, we have seen him go to th...