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Reported speech or indirect speech is sometimes used in German to convey what someone else has said. It is not commonly used in spoken language, but instead mainly in journalism, in order to distance the aut...

In order to understand which of these two is most appropriate for what you are trying to say, you should think about their literal translations. Duerfen is "to be allowed to", expressing permission...

The passive is used when the speaker/writer wants to put emphasis on the action and object of the sentence rather than the subject doing the action. For example in English the active sentence "He is bui...

The verbs that take sein in the past tense are usually (there are some exceptions) verbs that indicate a change of state or movement. For example, fahren is referring to movement, so you'd say ich bin gefahr...

The word for 'the' which you use depends on the gender of the noun that follows it, and also what the noun is doing in a sentence. In the sentence 'The dog bites the cat', the dog is doing the action, which ...