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  2. Imperative mood - Wikipedia

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    The plural imperative is the same as the second-person plural of the present tense. Sing! or: Singe! – said to one person: "Sing!" Singt! – said to a group of persons: "Sing!" In order to emphasize their addressee, German imperatives can be followed by the nominative personal pronouns du ("thou; you SG") or ihr ("you PL"), respectively

  3. German conjugation - Wikipedia

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    ihr sie/Sie; Präsens: fahre: f ä hrst: f ä hrt: fahren: fahrt: fahren: Präteritum: f u hr: f u hrst: f u hr: f u hren: f u hrt: f u hren: Futur I: werde fahren: wirst fahren: wird fahren: werden fahren: werdet fahren: werden fahren: Konditional ich du er/sie/es wir ihr sie/Sie; Präsens: würde fahren: würdest fahren: würde fahren ...

  4. Sentence function - Wikipedia

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    An imperative sentence gives anything from a command or order, to a request, direction, or instruction. Imperative sentences are more intentional than exclamatory sentences and do require an audience; [ note 1 ] as their aim is to get the person(s) being addressed either to do or to not do something.

  5. German sentence structure - Wikipedia

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    German sentence structure is the structure to which the German language adheres. The basic sentence in German follows SVO word order. [1] Additionally, German, like all west Germanic languages except English, [note 1] uses V2 word order, though only in independent clauses.

  6. German orthography - Wikipedia

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    In addition, capital letters are used: at the beginning of sentences (may be used after a colon, when the part of a sentence after the colon can be treated as a sentence); in the formal pronoun Sie 'you' and the determiner Ihr 'your' (optionally in other second-person pronouns in letters); in adjectives at the beginning of proper names (e.g ...

  7. German verbs - Wikipedia

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    danken ("Er dankt ihr.") folgen gefallen gehören glauben gratulieren helfen leidtun passen passieren (in the sense of "happen") ("Mir ist heute etwas Verrücktes passiert.") (Something crazy happened to me today. "Etwas Verrücktes" is the subject, "mir" is the dative object) vertrauen verzeihen wehtun zuhören

  8. German honorifics - Wikipedia

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    In former times, the 2nd person plural ("Ihr" ; like the French « vous ») or the 3rd person singular ("Er" He, "Sie" She) and their corresponding possessive adjectives and verb forms were used. The 3rd person plural as polite form of address as it is used today became standard during the 19th and 20th centuries.

  9. Grammatical mood - Wikipedia

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    e IPFV. TAM hina’aro like na DEIX vau SG tō DEF mei’a banana ra DEIX e hina’aro na vau tō mei’a ra IPFV.TAM like DEIX SG DEF banana DEIX 'I would like those bananas (you mentioned).' Mortlockese Mortlockese is an Austronesian language made up of eleven dialects over the eleven atolls that make up the Mortlock Islands in Micronesia. Various TAM markers are used in the language. Mood ...