A New Method of Learning the German Language: Embracing Both the Analytic and Synthetic Modes of Instruction Being a Plain and Practical Way of Acquiring the Art of Reading, Speaking, and Composing German |
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Page 245 - Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
Page 324 - English verb, which, unlike the Greek and Latin verb, has only two or three varieties in its termination; yet, we perplex the learner with no less than...
Page 89 - ... commands. Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body.
Page 426 - When the nominatives are of different persons, the verb is commonly plural, and takes the first person rather than the second and the second rather than the third ; as, Si tu et Tullia valitis, ego et Cicero valemus, " If you and Tullia are well, Cicero and I are well.
Page 114 - He has given me (some) apple* and pears. Will you have (some) bread or some cake ? Have you (some, any) fine black cloth ? Has he money enough, or has he none? He has enough (of it). Has she books enough ? She has enough of them, but too little time to read them. Do you know who that is t It is my father, my mother, my child.
Page 265 - Pronouns and Verbs, are capable of inflection ; that is, admit of various changes of termination by which various modifications of meaning are expressed: the other four, namely, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions and Interjections, are in form invariable. (3) All parts of speech capable of inflection have two numbers : the SINGULAR, which denotes but one, and the PLURAL, which denotes more than one. (4) All parts of speech capable of inflection, except the verb, have four CASES; namely the NOMINATIVE,...
Page 301 - ... the (number) three. § 45. ORDINAL NUMBERS. (1) The ordinal numbers are those, which answer to the question : " Which one of the series .* " They are given below, • In relation to the numeral 1 1 It note, further, these three things : 1.
Page 22 - January ; jung, young. 20. 58, r, is uttered with a trill or vibration of the tongue, and with greater stress than our r. Ex.
Page 297 - German, ftirje« 297 ften agrees with some noun in the dative understood, which is governed by a n. But the phrase is used and treated just as any regular superlative form would be under the same circumstances. In like manner, auf (upon) and ju (to) combined respectively with the article (auf ba...
Page 312 - By their forms, therefore, these pronouns indicate the person and number of the nouns which they represent ; that is, the person and number of the possessors. As, moreover, they may be declined like adjectives, they, also, make known by their terminations, the gender, number and case of the nouns with which they stand connected : for, in respect to inflection, a possessive pronoun agrees in gender, number and case, not with the possessor, but with the name of the thing possessed.