4 | Wie geht‘s?
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Personal pronouns: ihr, sie (plural), Sie (plural)
Personal pronouns: ihr, sie (plural), Sie (plural)
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Grammar
The Possessive -s is similar to English. But Germans leave out the apostrophe (’):
Wo ist Frau Maywalds Büro?
Where is Mrs. Maywald’s office?
Exceptions are words that end on -s, -ß, -x, or -z. Here, we leave out the s, not the apostrophe:
Das ist Fritz’ Büro.
That is Fritz’s office.
Hint
Let’s take another look at the dialog:
Meili: Wo ist Frau Maywalds Büro?
Where is Mrs. Maywald’s office?
Paul: Hmmm… das Büro von Anna Maywald?
Hmmm… the office of Anna Maywald?
We see that we can avoid using the possessive -s by using the word von.
For now, you’re still riding with training wheels. That means in our writing exercises, it is currently no problem if you forget a punctuation mark (,.!?) or disregard upper and lower case. But that will change soon! So remember for the future: All nouns and sentence beginnings in capital letters, the rest in lower case.
5 Rephrase the sentences
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Hallo! I cannot move die orange boxes
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