A Key to the German Language. to Which Are Added Progressive Practical Exercises According to Dr Ahn's Method (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. 1855 Excerpt: ...a3ofj, irfd). He spoke to my sister and Hans, er faracb init metner Scfyrcefter unb ang. 8. What other manner is there to mark the cases of proper names?--The use of the definite article. 9. As for instance; the sentence, "Brutus killed Caesar," may, according to the generality of grammarians, be translated SSrutug tobtete Sdfarn. But how would modern authors write?--SSrutug tobtete ben dafar. 10. How do we translate, "who was the greatest hero after Alexander?"--QBer war ber grofte etb nad) bem, or simply nad) Qtferanber? Gender Of Nouns. 1. How many genders are there in German?--Three, the masculine, feminine, and neuter. 2. What double method has the German language for distinguishing the sex of substantives?--The attending to their significations and to their endings. 3. The reference to the significations of words being the first way of distinguishing their genders, what nouns are, from their significations, of the masculine gender? The nouns of male persons, and male animals, gods, angels, and spirits, as well as all names expressing any office, dignity, quality, station, or implements used by mechanics; next all words of stones, months, days. etc.; as, ber S6roe the lion, ber SBitrger the citizen, ber ammer the hammer, ber SDiamant the diamond, ber Dfhvinb the east wind, ber 2omtner the summer, ber Wlai the May, ber Sonntag the Sunday, ber Sad)g the salmon. 4. What nouns are, from their significations, of the feminine gender?--The nouns of female persons, and female animals; the substantives expressing the dignities, relations, qualities, functions, and implements of art peculiar to the female sex; as well as words which denote rivers, fruits, etc.; as, bit (c)icbterin the poetess, bic 0latel the needle, We Db.