The Konjunktiv II is
a verb form
that you will mostly find in indirect speech. You use it when using Konjunktiv I is ambiguous, meaning the verb would be the same as another form of the verb. It can also sometimes be used to express imaginary situations, dreams, suggestions, and recommendations.
What is the difference between Konjunktiv 1 and 2?
Konjunktiv I is
used for the 2nd and 3rd person singular and 2nd person plural
, the Konjunktiv II for the 1st person singular and the 1st and 3rd person plural to avoid confusion. We can also use the Konjunktiv II to express a wish or desire, to make conditional sentences or to make special, polite phrases.
What is Konjunktiv I in German?
The special subjunctive, also called subjunctive 1 or
present subjunctive
(Konjunktiv I), is primarily used in newspaper articles and reports when statements are repeated as indirect speech. The special subjunctive is also used in certain idiomatic expressions.
How do you use the subjunctive 2 in German?
For example, when the German words
wenn
(if) and so or dann (then) precede the clauses in the sentence, you can often expect the verbs to appear in their subjunctive II forms. This mood is usually expressed in English with the verb “would” or with the simple past form of the verb: “I would buy one, if I had the money.”
What is the difference between Indikativ and Konjunktiv?
Indikativ is stating a fact
. Konjunktiv is used to state what you wish or what should be. However, Konjunktiv I is today mostly used to give a report on what someone else said without giving judgemet about the truth of this statement.
What is the meaning of Konjunktiv?
verb.
should
[verb] used to state that something ought to happen, be done etc. You should hold your knife in your right hand.
How do you use SEI in German?
I know sei is used as an imperative like, “Sei still!”, but sometimes its used as a conjugation of “
sein
“.. e.x ” Er sagt, dass das verboten sei.”
How do you use Konjunktiv II?
The Konjunktiv II is a verb form that you will mostly find in indirect speech. You use it when
using Konjunktiv I is ambiguous
, meaning the verb would be the same as another form of the verb. It can also sometimes be used to express imaginary situations, dreams, suggestions, and recommendations.
Is Konjunktiv a 2 conditional?
When you look to textbooks, they’ll usually give you a list of what the “Konjunktiv II” (which we call
Conditional
) is used for and leave it at that.
Is there subjunctive in German?
The German subjunctive mood (der Konjunktiv) comes in two varieties:
(1) Subjunctive I (present subjunctive) and (2) Subjunctive II (past subjunctive)
. Despite their nicknames, it is important to understand that the subjunctive (in English or German) is a verb mood, not a verb tense.
What is Konjunktiv II in English?
Konjunktiv II is
where the magic happens
. This mood, much as in English, gives you the ability to create hypothetical situations, express doubt over an idea and wish yourself into anything you want to be.
What is the subjunctive mood German?
In German, Subjunctive I provides a special grammatical form
for indicating that someone else’s utterance is being repeated
. It is also typically used to connote that the person repeating the utterance of someone else is skeptical about its validity.
Will conjugation in German?
| German English | es will it wants to | wir wollen we want to | ihr wollt you want to (plural, informal) | Sie wollen you want to (singular or plural, formal) |
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What are the six German tenses?
German has six tenses:
present (Präsens), present perfect (Perfekt), simple past (Präteritum), past perfect
(Plusquamperfekt), future (Futur I) and future perfect (Futur II).
What is the indicative German?
The indicative is
one of the 3 moods of the German language besides the subjunctive and the imperative
. The present indicative and the past tense indicative are simple tenses. The other tenses in the indicative are perfect, pluperfect and future I and II. These are formed by compositions with the auxiliary verbs.
What is German Indikativ?
The Indikativ/Indicative mood is the most common in both languages, used for
describing reality
: things that have actually happened, are happening or are expected to happen.
