WorksheetsYear 8 German 2 Key Vocabulary
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is the present tense?
The present tense describes something that has happened yesterday
The present tense describes what is happening now.I am playing football. / Ich spiele Fußball.
The present tense describes something that is going to happen tomorrow
It is the same as the infinitive
What is a verb?
A verb can be any word in a sentence.
A word used to coordinate words in the same clause
A verb is a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as to love, to play, to buy (lieben, spielen, kaufen).
A word used to describe a person or a thing
What is the infinitive of a verb?
The form of a word which must always be at the end of a sentence in German
An verb that can only be used in the past tense.
A social ideal, which declares that it is best to share everything.
The form of the verb we find in the dictionary
This is expressed in English by “to…” e.g. to play. spielen
What does it mean to conjugate?
In English, verbs change as they are used, most notably with different people (you, I, we) and different time (now, later, before). Conjugating verbs essentially means altering them into different forms to provide context.
To choose which way to go at a junction
To turn a simple sentence into a more complex one
To add a wide variety of adjectives
What is a cognate?
A word which means and sounds the same in German and English
A word which means and is spelled the same in German and English
A word which sounds and is spelled the same in German and English
The idea behind formal letter writing.
What is a false-friend?
A word which means and sounds the same in German and English
A word which is spelled the same in German and English, but means something else
A word which sounds and is spelled the same in German and English
Any word which looks like an English word and means the same
What is an adverb?
A word used to count nouns
The idea behind formal letter writing
A word, which refers to the verb
A marketing campaign for sporting goods
An word that can only be used in the past tense
What is a connective?
A word used to describe relationships
A word linking sentence parts
A type of words that can be conjugated
A word that can relate to either a subject or an object
What is an intensifier?
A word which we put before a noun to describe it in more detail
A word which must always be at the end of a sentence in German
A word which we place before an adjective to add more “intensity” to the meaning of that adjective
Words that always have to be in the same position in the sentence for them to make sense
Which of the following are examples of intensifiers?
machen
sehr
ziemlich
groß
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