German question

jumpguy

If you have the sentence
"Although I want to go to the shop"


Is it:

"Obwohl ich zu Laden will gehen"

Or

"Obwohl ich zu Laden gehen will"

Or put into English, if you have a sub-ordinating conjunction at the start of your sentence, with a modal verb and regular (weak) verb, which goes to the end, the modal verb or the regular verb? Or am I completely wrong?

xxmeabhxx

"Obwohl ich zu Laden gehen will" I think is the correct one. The way I work any sentence like this with two verbs, one all ready at the end, is to put the first verb at the very end eg. Ich soll meine Hausaufgabe machen becomes weil ich meine Hausaufgabe machen soll when a sub-ordination conjunction is added. Hope that makes sense and hope it's correct.

GERMAN ROCKS

second one

Four-Percent

Obwohl ich zum Laden gehen will.


I think there's an M here

Delta Kilo

What about "nach"?

Johnny Giles

Obwohl möchte ich den Laden gehen

Twitter

Obwohl ich zum Laden gehen will, verb-subject-rest of sentence.

Rule is that the conjugated verb goes to the end of the clause (as opposed to the infinitive), then you lob in a comma and start the next clause with a conjugated verb too. In other words, if you look closely it lloks like to eyes and a nose: v,v That might help you remember it!

Angry Troll

Four-Percent wrote: »

Obwohl ich zum Laden gehen will.


I think there's an M here

correct

jumpguy

Delta Kilo wrote: »

What about "nach"?

That's for country's and things.

Thanks everyone, much appreciated!

jumpguy

I'm bumping this by-now ancient thread for another question. Is there any easy way to know if a word in German in masculine, feminine or neuter? Or do you just have to learn it off? It's serious killing my grammar (as you can see in the OP, "Ich gehe zum Laden").

unknown13

jumpguy wrote: »

I'm bumping this by-now ancient thread for another question. Is there any easy way to know if a word in German in masculine, feminine or neuter? Or do you just have to learn it off? It's serious killing my grammar (as you can see in the OP, "Ich gehe zum Laden").

Not really, I personally think half the time it is guess work but if you are unsure of the word you should look it up in the dictionary when studying because it will have whether it is masculine, feminine or neutral in the dictionary.

degausserxo

Ubung Macht Den Meister is a book anyone learning German should have, it's an absolute lifesaver!

Masculine words:

1. Male persons and animals, z.B. der Mann, der Stier (the bull), der Arzt.

2. Names of seasons, months, days and points of the compass, z.B. der Sommer, der Januar, der Montag, der Sueden.

3. Nouns ending in -ig and -ling, z.B der Koenig, der Fruehling.

4. Nouns ending in -er denoting a person, z.B. der Lehrer, der Fahrer.

5. Most nouns ending in -en, except verbs used as nouns, z.B. der Garten, der Morgen.

Feminine words:

1. Female persons and animals, z.B. die Mutter, die Aerztin (no idea how to do umlauts on this, is there even a way? Meh, vowel+e will do), die Kuh.

2. Nouns ending in -e, z.B die Schule, die Woche.

3. Nouns ending in (brace yourself) -ei, -ie, -ik, -in, -ion, -heit, -keit, -schaft, -taet (that's t, a umlaut, t), -ung.

Neuter words:

1. Infinitives used as nouns, z.B. das Lesen, das Schwimmen.

2. Nouns ending in -ment, -tum.

3. Diminitives (giving the sense of small, like -ín in Irish), z.B -lein, -chen (das Entlein - duckling, das Maedchen).

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