Sentence Structure
4 articles- Negation — nicht and kein★★
How to negate sentences in German using nicht (not) and kein/keine (no / not a).
- Questions — Fragesätze★★
How to form yes/no questions and W-questions (who, what, when, where, why, how) in German.
- Relative Clauses — der, die, das as Relative Pronouns★★★★
Relative clauses add extra information about a noun. They are introduced by a relative pronoun (der, die, das, den…) which matches the noun's gender and the clause's case, and the verb goes to the end.
- Word Order — Wortstellung★★★
German word order rules — the verb-second rule in main clauses, inversion, and verb-final in subordinate clauses.