German Grammar Terms and their Uses

German Grammar Terms are easier to understand once you've made sense of them and their uses.

Check this sentence:

"The boy kicks a round ball easily on the football pitch."

The role of each word in the sentence and the associated grammatical terms are explained below:

German Grammar Terms	What it is	Word in Sentence
Definite Article	indicates something definite	(The)
Noun (subject)	person, place, thing, animal	(boy)
Verb	"doing" word, describes the action	(kicks)
Indefinite Article	indicates something indefinite	(a)
Adjective	describes the noun	(round)
Noun (object)	person, place, thing, animal doing the action	(ball)
Adverb	describes the verb (how is the action done?)	(easily)
Preposition	time, place, condition	(on)
Definite Article	the	(the)
Noun	person, place, thing, animal receiving the action	(football pitch)

Here are some other useful German Grammar Terms:

Grammar Terms	What is is	Examples
Personal (subject) pronoun	This replaces the noun	I, you, he, she, it, they, we, one
Subject	The person, place, thing or animal that does the action.	the boy, Mike, mouse, town
Object	The person, place, thing or animal that receives the action.	e.g. the ball, Sue, dog, box
Conjunction	links two parts of a sentence together.	and, if, but, however -

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