A COMPLETE GRAMMATICAL COURSE OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE. BY T. MATTHAY, Professor of German at Wimbledon School, and other Military Colleges as well as at Ladies' Schools. PREFACE. THE favourable reception which my Grammar has met with, and the desire my pupils have expressed to have it illustrated by corresponding exercises, have encouraged me to endeavour to lay down in this Complete Grammatical Course a series of simple, easy and comprehensive rules and lessons. These I have endeavoured to express as shortly and concisely as possible, as their length and difficulty in similar works of larger proportions often perplex and weary the pupil. The vocabularies and rules are intended to be learned by heart, I have therefore made them as clear and short as possible. The exercises by which the rules are illustrated, are followed by Recapitulatory Exercises, and by Exercises containing mistakes for the pupil to correct, in order to accustom him to think for himself-an object which is so frequently neglected. T. MATTHAY. 40, MANOR STREET, CLAPHAM. June 30th, 1875. CONTENTS. PAGE. 1 9 13 1, 2 Declension of the Definite and Indefinite Articles 3, 4 Declension of dieser, jener, jeder, welcher, unser, euer, ihr, folcher, 7, 8 Declension of Adjectives when they are not preceded 9, 10 Adjectives when they follow Substantives 11, 12 Recapitulatory Exercises 20, 21 Recapitulatory Exercises 23, 24 Comparison of Adjectives The Declension of Substantives 26, 27 First Declension (Feminine Substantives) 28, 29 Second Declension (Masculine Substantivés ending in e).. 30, 31 Third Declension (Masculine and Neuter Substantives ending in el, er, en, chen, lein) 32, 33 Fourth Declension (Masculine and Neuter Substantives not ending in el, er, en, chen, lein) 34, 35 Recapitulatory Exercises 37, 38 The Declension of Proper Nouns 39, 40 Substantives that have no plural number .. Substantives which admit the plural, expressing the con- 41, 42 Substantives of weight, measure, etc., that do not admit the plural when used as such Substantives that are not used in the singular Of not to be translated, and Of to be rendered by von with the Dative 43, 44 Gender of Substantives 45, 46 Substantives that have two Genders and two Meanings : 47, 48 Recapitulatory Exercises 49 Exercise to corrected 50, 51 Regular Verbs 44 44 45 46 50 52 53 53 |