Edited by David McColl, Thursday, 1 July 2010, 09:38
Thema 1 - Vor der Reise
The Course is spilt up into Thema, the first one is entitled Vor der Reise. But what does it mean? The course starts with a grammatical adventure.
Das Wörterbuch
das Thema /die Themen - theme or topic
die Reise - journey, trip, passage // Gute Reise - Have a good journey.
Grammatik
Although we do not get to this point within the course until much later in Thema 6 (Murphy, 2003), let’s deal with this first.
„Wechselpräpositionen ober Akkusativ oder Dativ?“(Stief & Stang, 2010) p135-7
Some prepositions take the dative case. Others, including vor, can take more than one case. But, if the accusative is dynamic and the dative is static, which do we use here?
But die Reise (acc), der Reise (dat).
On balance, vor der Reise - for the trip.
Murphy, L. (2003). Wohnen - Thema 6 - Rundblick: Beginners' German L193. Milton Keynes: The Open University.
Stief, V. C., & Stang, C. (2010). German Grammar in a Nutshell. Berlin und München: Langenscheidt.
L193 Thema 1
Thema 1 - Vor der Reise
The Course is spilt up into Thema, the first one is entitled Vor der Reise. But what does it mean? The course starts with a grammatical adventure.
Das Wörterbuch
das Thema /die Themen - theme or topic
die Reise - journey, trip, passage
// Gute Reise - Have a good journey.
Grammatik
Although we do not get to this point within the course until much later in Thema 6 (Murphy, 2003), let’s deal with this first.
„Wechselpräpositionen ober Akkusativ oder Dativ?“ (Stief & Stang, 2010) p135-7
Some prepositions take the dative case. Others, including vor, can take more than one case. But, if the accusative is dynamic and the dative is static, which do we use here?
But die Reise (acc), der Reise (dat).
On balance, vor der Reise - for the trip.
Murphy, L. (2003). Wohnen - Thema 6 - Rundblick: Beginners' German L193. Milton Keynes: The Open University.
Stief, V. C., & Stang, C. (2010). German Grammar in a Nutshell. Berlin und München: Langenscheidt.