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Die Befehle

Die Befehle. There are four different types of commands in the German language

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Page 1: Die Befehle.  There are four different types of commands in the German language

Die Befehle

Page 2: Die Befehle.  There are four different types of commands in the German language

There are four different types of commands in the German language.

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Du commands (familiar)• use the 2nd person singular form of the verb

(kaufen)

du kaufst

• drop the subject pronoun and the ending

kauf

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• drop any umlaut you may have addedträg….. weg

trag…….weg

• any separable prefix is placed at the end of the phrase

trag ….weg trag …....weg

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Plural commands (ihr)

• use the second person plural form of the verb

ihr kauft

• drop the subject pronoun

kauft

*******************************************• any separable prefix is placed at the end

of the phrase

tragt……………. weg

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Formal commands (Sie)

• use the formal form (Sie) of the verb

Sie kaufen

• transpose the word order

kaufen Sie

**********************************************• any separable prefix is placed at the end

of the phrase

tragen Sie………weg

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Let’s commands (wir)

• use the first person plural form of the verb

wir kaufen

• transpose the word order

kaufen wir

*******************************************• any separable prefix is placed at the end

of the phrase tragen wir………weg

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Irregular commands

• sein

• familiar sei

• plural seid

• formal seien Sie

• let’s seien wir

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Irregular commands

• haben

• familiar hab

• plural habt

• formal haben Sie

• let’s haben wir

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Irregular commands

• werden

• familiar wird

• plural werdet

• formal werden Sie

• let’s werden wir