Advanced
263 self-paced lessons: Advanced Konjunktiv, nominal and academic style, literary narration, registers from formal to Umgangssprache, Austrian and Swiss German, formal letters and academic writing.
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Konjunktiv: Advanced Nuances, Part 1 of 6
Go beyond wäre, hätte and könnte: the synthetic Konjunktiv II of strong and mixed verbs (käme, ginge, wüsste, bräuchte) and when würde + infinitive is the better choice.
Konjunktiv: Advanced Nuances, Part 2 of 6
Make unreal comparisons with als ob, als wenn and als + verb: Er tut, als wäre er der Chef; present and past, and the verb position each one demands.
Contrast Clinic: Er käme / Er wäre gekommen
Choose between present and past inside the Konjunktiv II, hätte kommen können versus könnte gekommen sein, and the word order of the double infinitive in subordinate clauses.
Error Hunt: Konjunktiv Forms and Word Order
Real emails and posts with typical Konjunktiv mistakes: würde in the wenn-clause, als ob with the indicative, würde + participle and the double infinitive in the wrong place.
Konjunktiv: Advanced Nuances, Part 3 of 6
The Konjunktiv of modesty: ich hätte da eine Frage, wäre es möglich, das dürfte reichen, and why ich will or ich möchte haben can sound blunt.
Konjunktiv: Advanced Nuances, Part 4 of 6
Fast and beinahe with the past Konjunktiv II for what nearly happened, zu ..., als dass for consequences that couldn't follow, and ohne dass / nicht dass.
Transformations: Conditions Without Wenn
Rewrite wenn-clauses as verb-first conditions (Hätte ich das gewusst, ...; Sollte es regnen, ...), with sonst and andernfalls, with ohne / bei / an deiner Stelle.
Style Workshop: The Diplomatic Konjunktiv
Disagree tactfully in a team meeting: ich würde das etwas anders sehen, wäre es nicht sinnvoller, man könnte auch überlegen, and how to rewrite blunt messages.
Konjunktiv: Advanced Nuances, Part 5 of 6
Build the Konjunktiv I of any verb, know why mainly er/sie/es and sein are distinctive, apply the replacement rule and use its three time levels.
Konjunktiv: Advanced Nuances, Part 6 of 6
Konjunktiv I beyond reported speech: wishes and formulas (Gott sei Dank, es lebe), instructions (man nehme), and set phrases like koste es, was es wolle and wie dem auch sei.
Text Detective: The Konjunktiv in a News Report
Read a news report about a transport strike and identify every Konjunktiv I and II: reported speech, replacement forms, unreal conditions, politeness and journalistic distance.
Spiral Review: The Konjunktiv from Upper-Intermediate to Advanced
Mix Upper-intermediate hätte ... sollen, regrets, indirect speech and als ob with Advanced synthetic forms, verb-first conditions, fast + Konjunktiv II and Konjunktiv I formulas in real messages.
Unit 1 review: Konjunktiv I and II: Advanced Nuances
Listen, speak and write with what you learned in this unit (Konjunktiv I and II: Advanced Nuances), then translate three sentences.
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