LESSONS IN GERMAN. 



I.KHBONS IN GERMAN. II. 



COM III.-OERMAN li UNO. 



:pil Hhoul.l invuriably make himHolf BO familiar with the 

 moaning of tho wonU given in tho several Vocabularies and 



, as to avoid the noowudty of referring to them while 

 translating. Nothing U better adapted to fix a word 

 memory than the procat of tratucribing it ; and by doing tfctt 

 in the German character, tho requisite familiarity with the word 

 iiu.l tin. peculiar 'I ."jraphy or /um<Jwrt/iny of tho language 

 which i shown below, are both Mcored at the aame time. 



The Printed Letters, 



'!? SB .g)3. 6S. 



abctefgB.iif(mn 



d 5 fl d ft JF jl P 



EXERCISES. ?lufijabe3. 



S9erltit, (Join, 3)wten, 



Cm*, Jfcanffurt, otBa, -5am< 

 buvg, 



Smtfrrucf, 3ena, JJ6nigberg, 



SWain;, Sfturnberg, 

 Dfen, 



, Cutbctf, {Raflatt, 

 Stettin, 



Zricr, Utm, JBatuj, fflfen, 

 Janton, Specn, 3*rt$ 



raw, t^turn: grcunb, if! atle 



grun 



JBaum. 



The Written Letters. 



ri?3 ' * ^py<9 ^ ' * 



gottnct ^iJ^!^^*><V!^<cSw^^VCA^^ 

 tsir s 



The Englith Letter*. 

 D F H IJ K 



abcdof ghijklmn 



1 5 fl ck Bch SB rt si tz. 



EXERCISE 3. Anfgabe 3. 



Aachen (Aix-la-ChapeUe), 

 Berlin, Coin (Cologne), 

 Dresden, 



Ems, Frankfurt, Gotha, 

 Hamburg, 



Innspruck, Jena, Eonigs- 

 berg, 



zig, Mainz (Mayenoe), 

 Niirnberg (Nuremberg), 

 Ofen, 

 Pesth, Qnebeck (Quebec), 



Eastatt, Stettin, 



Trier, Ulm, Vaduz, TVien 

 (Vienna), 



Xanton, Ypern, Zurich, 



Gran, thenrer Prennd, ist 

 alle Theorie, 



Doch grun dea Lcbena 

 goldner Baum. 



SECTION IV. -THE ARTICLE AND THE VERB. 



In German the definite Article has, in the Nominative singular, 

 a distinct form for each gender : 



Masculine : <D t r SWann, the man : 3)ft 33ruttr, the brother, 

 feminine : 3) t e grail, the woman ; )tf S^uwfJcr, the sister. 

 Neuter : 3) a $mtf, the house ; 3>aS la, tho gbass. 



Some nouns, denoting inanimate objects, are in German, as in 

 most languages, called masculine or feminine ; and some, denot- 

 ing animate objects, are called neuter : 



Masculine : a Htfrf, the apple ; 3>nr Saum, the tree ; 



Feminine : Die Sraubr, the grape ; 3He Slabcl, the needle ; 

 Neuter : S)a .Rtnfc, the child ; 3)a Pftrt>, the horse. 



Many words that are treated as masculine or feminine in one 

 msruae. are regarded as being of tho opposite gender in 



another : thns, in French, apple (la ponime) is feminine, while 

 grape (]e raisin) is masculine. In German the word head 

 flopf) is masculine; in French (la ttHe) it is feminine; and in 

 Latin (caput) it is enter. The word hand (tk $&, la main, 

 manus) is feminine in tho three languages. 



CONJUGATION OF THE PRESENT TENSE SINGULAR OF t tt fc 



