When you have finished this lesson you can:

• Repeat something you've heard, seen or been told

• Use indirect speech

• Talk about work conditions

When are the Grubers born?

Listen and write the dates (as number) to the persons:

Arrange correctly: Click at a verb on the left and drag them to the corresponding pronoun on the right side.

Here are some common media for reading

Arrange correctly: Click at the word on the left and drag them to the corresponding word on the right side.

Insert the right verb in the correct form and say the sentence. Click the button to record your answer, with microphone.

lesen - hören - sehen

There are different words for the communication between persons

 (reg., except.: du unterhältst dich, er/sie/es unterhält sich)

! Remember: "sich unterhalten" is a reflexive verb and requires a reflexive pronoun in correct form, which refers back to the subject.

Arrange correctly: Click at the pronounon the left and drag them to the corresponding form of the verb on the right side.

! Remember: "sich unterhalten" is a reflexive verb and requires a reflexive pronoun in correct form, which refers back to the subject.

Sometimes you want to talk about things you’ve heard or read. Then you use indirect speech to reproduce what someone else has said or written. In German, there are two possibilities to construct phrases of indirect speech: indicative and subjunctive. In spoken language the indicative is very common, so we’ll only deal with this form here - and you already know it!

In the indicative the verb describes a real action. It is the "normal" form of the verb. For the indirect speech, you use a main clause that says who has communicated/read and a subordinate clause that says what has been communicated/read. The subordinate clause is introduced with the conjunction "dass" (see chapter 2).

Examples:

Er hat gesagt, dass seine Frau nicht kommt.

[He said, that his wife will not come.]

Ich habe gelesen, dass es in Dänemark viele Fahrräder gibt.

[I’ve read, that there are a lot of bicycles in Denmark.]

! Remember: Subordinate clauses with a conjunction at the beginning have their conjugated verb on the last position.

If you reproduce a question of another person you use the question word as conjunction in the subordinate clause:

Sie hat gefragt, wie das Wetter wird.
[She asked how the weather will be.]

Sie wollen wissen, wo das Museum ist.
[They want to know, where the museum is.]

There are several ways to say what another person was saying.

For talking about what you’ve seen or heard you use the same construction:

! Remember: If you use an adjective as attribute it follows the noun in gender, case and number.

Example: Er ist ein ungeduldiger Mann.     [He’s an impatient man.]

If you use the adjective as adverb it doesn’t change.

            Example: Er ist ungeduldig.        [He’s impatient.]

Arrange correctly: Click at the adjectiv on the left and drag it to the corresponding opposite on the right side.