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Overview

A health food shop and a chemist's

In this chapter you will learn:

  • how to ask where things are in a shop
  • how to express German quantities and how they differ from British quantities
  • about adjectives of nationality and colour
  • background information for shopping in Germany
  • vocabulary for different types of food
  • vocabulary for containers and shops
  • how to construct German numbers greater than 100

Grammar
Grammatically, this chapter concentrates on the use of adjectives when they follow a number or a quantity. We will also examine verbs which take the dative case and learn the declination of some more irregular verbs. The declension of personal pronouns will be examined, as will the formation of the imperative in German.

A German cash register

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