Cover <br/> Title Page <br/> Copyright Page <br/> Dedication <br/> Contents <br/> Preface <br/> 1 Pronunciation and Cognates <br/> The Alphabet <br/> Step 1: Consonants <br/> Step 2: Vowels <br/> Letter Combinations <br/> Consonants <br/> Vowels <br/> Step 3: Cognates <br/> 2 Gender and heißen <br/> German Gender <br/> Step 1: Masculine <br/> Step 2: Feminine <br/> Step 3: Neuter <br/> Heißen <br/> 3 Nominative Pronouns, der-Words, and the Verb sein <br/> German Personal Pronouns <br/> Step 1: Third Person Pronouns and Gender <br/> Step 2: Der-Words <br/> The Verb sein <br/> 4 Ein-Words, haben, and the Present Tense <br/> Ein-Words <br/> Kein <br/> Step 1: Possessive Adjectives <br/> Step 2: The Verb haben <br/> Present Tense <br/> 5 Irregular Present Tense and werden <br/> Irregular Present Tense <br/> Step 1: Irregularities Formed with an Umlaut <br/> Step 2: Irregularities Formed with a Shift from -e- to -i- <br/> Step 3: Irregularities Formed with a Shift from -e- to -ie- <br/> Conjugation of werden <br/> The Impersonal es <br/> 6 Accusative Case: Direct Objects and Prepositions <br/> Accusative Case <br/> Step 1: Direct Object Nouns <br/> Step 2: Direct Object Pronouns <br/> Step 3: Prepositions <br/> Masculine Plurals <br/> Mastery Check 1 <br/> 7 Regular Past Tense and Interrogative Words <br/> The Past Tense <br/> Step 1: The Past Tense Suffix -te <br/> Step 2: Adverbs for the Past Tense <br/> Forming Questions <br/> Step 3: Feminine Plurals <br/> 8 Irregular Past Tense and Neuter Plurals <br/> Irregular Past Tense <br/> Step 1: German Irregular Past Tense <br/> Step 2: Numbers, the Year, and Age <br/> Using fragen <br/> Neuter Plurals <br/> 9 Dative Case and More Irregular Past Tense <br/> Dative Case <br/> Step 1: Dative Case in German <br/> Haben, sein, werden in the Past Tense <br/> Step 2: Wissen and kennen <br/> 10 Dative Expressions and Conjunctions aber, oder, und, and sondern <br/> The Dative Case <br/> Step 1: More Dative Verbs and Dative Expressions <br/> Conjunctions <br/> Step 2: Können und müssen <br/> 11 Regular Present Perfect Tense <br/> The Present Perfect Tense <br/> Step 1: Haben and Regular Past Participles <br/> Step 2: Sein and the Present Perfect Tense <br/> Ordinal Numbers and Prefixes <br/> Step 3: Ordinal Numbers <br/> Step 4: Inseparable Prefixes <br/> 12 Adjective Endings and Separable Prefixes <br/> Adjectives <br/> Step 1: Adjective Endings <br/> Nominative Case Adjectives <br/> Accusative Case Adjectives <br/> Step 2: Separable Prefixes <br/> 13 Irregular Present Perfect Tense and Prefixes <br/> The Irregular Present Perfect Tense <br/> Step 1: German Irregular Past Participles <br/> Step 2: Haben, sein, werden, sterben <br/> Step 3: Prefixes <br/> Mastery Check 2 <br/> 14 Genitive Case and Antonyms <br/> Genitive Case <br/> Step 1: German Possessives <br/> Step 2: Containers <br/> Step 3: Genitive Prepositions <br/> Antonyms <br/> Step 4: Opposites in German <br/> Gehen <br/> Step 5: Gehen and Infinitives <br/> 15 Future Tense and Modal Auxiliaries <br/> The Future Tense <br/> Step 1: German Future Tense <br/> Modal Auxiliaries <br/> Step 2: German Modal Auxiliaries <br/> 16 Dependent Clauses and Conjunctions <br/> Dependent Clauses <br/> Step 1: German Clauses <br/> Subordinating Conjunctions <br/> Step 2: Dass and ob <br/> 17 Dative-Accusative Prepositions <br/> Prepositions with More Than One Function <br/> Step 1: Dative Case <br/> Step 2: Inanimate Pronouns <br/> Step 3: Accusative Case <br/> Geography <br/> Step 4: Die Welt (The World) <br/> 18 Comparative and Superlative <br/> Comparative <br/> Step 1: German Comparative Adverbs and Adjectives <br/> Step 2: Irregular Comparatives <br/> Superlative <br/> Step 3: German Superlative Adverbs and Adjectives <br/> Step 4: Irregular Superlatives <br/> 19 Imperatives and Double Infinitives <br/> Commands <br/> Step 1: The German Imperative <br/> Double Infinitives <br/> Step 2: Present Perfect and Future Tenses <br/> Step 3: Helfen, hören, lassen, and sehen <br/> 20 Using All the Cases and All the Tenses <br/> Cases and Declensions <br/> Step 1: German Declensions of Nouns and Pronouns <br/> Tenses <br/> Step 2: Varieties in the German Tenses <br/> Mastery Check 3 <br/> Appendix A: Fraktur Alphabet (1600–1940) <br/> Appendix B: The Principal Parts of Irregular Verbs <br/> Answer Key
