Party plans: separable verbs, placement and position verbs, 'während'
I can use separable and placement verbs to understand and talk about party plans.
- Year 8
Party plans: separable verbs, placement and position verbs, 'während'
I can use separable and placement verbs to understand and talk about party plans.
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Key learning points
- Separable verbs are made up of a prefix and a main verb, e.g., 'stattfinden' - 'to take place'.
- We must remember the separable prefix, especially when English equivalents are single verbs, e.g. 'anfangen' - to start.
- Three placement verbs - 'stellen', 'setzen', 'legen' - describe putting something somewhere, and take the accusative.
- When items are already in position, we use equivalent position verbs 'stehen', 'sitzen' and 'liegen'.
- The word order 3 conjunction ‘während’ (while) is useful for referring to two things happening at the same time.
Keywords
Separable verb - two-part verb with a prefix and a main verb, e.g., ‘stattfinden'
Placement verb - verb that describes putting something somewhere, and takes the accusative case
Während - conjunction 'while' that triggers word order 3 (WO3), sending the verb to the end of the clause or sentence
Common misconception
German has one general verb meaning 'to put, putting'.
German has three placement verbs that translate into English as 'to put, putting'. 'Stellen' - to make something stand (vertically), 'setzen' - to make something sit, 'legen' - to make something lay down (horizontally).
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