Rating: Summary: A "Must Have" for All German Students! Review: This book is a "must have" for all German students!! It has hundreds of verbs, conjugated in all their tenses with examples at the bottom of each page. In the back of the book, short grammar lessons are given on word order, separable prefixes, subordinating conjunctions and many others. There are also grammar exercises that the reader can complete and check (answers also included) and some idiomatic expressions (which are always fun to learn!) This book has saved me many hours of researching various tenses of verbs & I strongly recommend it to any serious German student!
Rating: Summary: A hefty tome Review: This is a good overview of most of the irregular verbs (and a couple of regular) you'll encounter, but as the reviewer from Zurich says, some verbs are apparently missed out.I think the biggest danger with this is that any beginner looking at it may become "blinded by science". There's just so much here, some of it you'll rarely if ever need, so it can be daunting if you're just starting out. It's not a book for learning the verbs in my view, but a book for seeing you've got the verbs you know right (and cheating on Hausaufgabe)... if you want to learn German verbs try a workbook. You want to be a little bit ahead with your German before you start with this!!! I see this in the same way I see my bigger German dictionary... it's useful at home for reference, but you're not going to carry it about with you! I've an idea that there's a smaller and/or larger edition of this same book, although Amazon doesn't list it, you should check that out before you buy.
Rating: Summary: Everything you need to know about the verbs contained Review: What can one say about a book that is a collection of verbs. Certainly it covers all the forms a verb can take, including some I still have never heard of after more than a year of self study. My only negative comment is that it seems so often that common verbs are omitted while unusual ones are included. Perhaps this is to keep the gramatical variety high, covering as many verb forms as possible. I'm not sure. But if you need more than the dictionary provides, and it's in here, you'll get everything you need to know about a verb.
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